I was in Rome when the shrub signed the Military Commissions Act that deprives us of habeus corpus.

...this is going to go down in history as one of our greatest self-inflicted wounds. And I think you can feel the judgment of history. It won't be kind to President Bush.

But frankly, I don't think that it will be kind to the rest of us. I think that history will ask, Where were you? What did you do when this thing was signed into law? There were people that protested the Japanese concentration camps, there were people that protested ... other acts. But we are strangely silent in this national yawn as our rights evaporate.

Jon Turley
Professor of Constitutional Law
George Washington University

It was a beautiful, sunny autumn day in Rome and I went to the Villa Borghese to see the Bernini sculptures and the Caravaggio paintings. And I was glad to be away from my native country on this day of its national shame.

posted by Joanna @ 10/19/2006 11:50:00 PM