The USA just abolished itself - they gave George W Bush the power to imprison anyone anywhere in the world indefinitely without legal representation or knowing the case against them. That's it, man, Game Over. Back to autocratic monarchs. Quite why the world's leading light of freedom (tm) has turned itself into a reasonable copy of Czarist Russia is beyond me. However, it does mean that any mutt accusing me of anti-Americanism is now implicitly supporting torture and tyranny. Conversely, anti-Americanism is a (the?) legitimate position for anyone who supports freedom and accountable government, you know, the things the USA was set up for. Pro-US, anti-America, that's me.
Luckily we still have, thanks to Sir Winston Churchill and other enlightened post-war Brits (and no thanks to Tony Blair, the Conservatives or the Sun), the European Convention on Human Rights (
http://www.echr.info/) under which this law would be instantly and incontrovertibly illegal*. We need to start teaching the USA sharp lessons in the benefits of liberal democracy and the rule of law, since they appear to have forgotten.
Of course it's not just wet lefties who think this:
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_s...ve_the_ki.html
* It contravenes, so far as I can see:
Article 3
Article 5 Sections 1(a), 2, 3, 4, 5
Article 6, every section
Article 7, both sections
Article 13
Article 17