bobquasit | Letter to Salon: Habeus Corpus

I'm really pretty speechless.

What now?
There's really nothing I can say that doesn't sound ridiculous. This is just so hard to believe...Congress has given Bush the LEGAL power to imprison for life and torture to death anyone he wants, including any American citizen. It's surreal.

And my party stood by. They cast their little "Nay" votes, knowing damned well that the bill would pass and that a man who has shown that he absolutely cannot be trusted with ANY power - a man who is already responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, including well over 3,000 US citizens - they have given him a power that most KINGS didn't have for the past 700 years.

And my own party - my own party stood by in complicity. Any ONE of them could have filibustered. They didn't. And why? Because the Republicans would attack them.

AS IF THEY WOULDN'T ATTACK THEM ANYWAY!!! And of course they already are. As anyone who isn't totally brain-dead would have anticipated.

I don't see how I can continue as a Democrat any more. I really don't.

This is nothing, a pathetic, meaningless pittance, but I'm going to change my registration from Democrat to independent. The Democrats are dead, and I'm not interested in climbing into the grave with them.

It's like a nightmare. It really is.

Follow-up: I just looked it up, and in order to leave the Democratic Party I have to fill out a disaffiliation form. That's available from the local board of canvassers; I called them, and they're mailing two of them out to me right away (just in case Teri feels like leaving the party, too). It wasn't hard to find them; I just Googled "Woonsocket" and "Board of Canvassers".

I know it doesn't mean anything. I know that the Democrats won't care - they've made that more than obvious. But I have to do something.