"I would not send my college kid off for a semester abroad if I were you. This week, we have suspended human rights in America, and what goes around comes around. Ixnay habeas corpus."
Keiler thanks the U.S. Senate, for giving President Bush the power to declare your Swedish grandmother or the Korean grocer an GÇ£enemy combatantGÇ¥ and to hold them in prison indefinitely.
The Senate also gave the president to power to "decide whether itGÇÖs OK to make these enemies stand naked in cold rooms for a couple days in blinding light and be beaten by interrogators." Keillor lists all 65 Senators who voted to give the Preident the power to "round up someone and never be required to explain why." Second on the list - GEORGE ALLEN.
Apparently, in Dallas last week, Keillor found a churchful of people who, along with George Allen, stand by the President when it comes to treatment of non-citizens. On a book tour to President Bush's church, Keillor was told not to talk politics. "The Methodists of Dallas can be fairly sure that none of them will be snatched off the streets, flown to Guantanamo, stripped naked, forced to stand for 48 hours in a freezing room with deafening noise, so why should they worry? ItGÇÖs only the Jews who are in danger, and the homosexuals and gypsies. The Christians are doing just fine. If you canGÇÖt trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?"
Keillor chillingly concludes: "Our enemies have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They have made us become like them."