11/21/2008
from the Kennebec Journal
Sport of Kings
New Medicaid billing system inspires doubts among some
Christmas spirit
Guidance counselor: Dismiss complaint based on criticism of same-sex marriage
CHELSEA: 'Practice burn' provides thrill for 9-year-old
Trust eyes orchard purchase
GOLFER OF THE YEAR: Bonenfant rises up Cony ranks
YOUTH SOCCER: Local team gives 'care package' to children in Afghanistan
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YES ON 1 BACKER REBUTS CLAIM
New system for Medicaid payments worries providers
After petition drive, Clinton police force budget will go a third time before voters
A rock musician makes trip home via Black Taxi
MADISON: After revaluation, abatement requests reviewed
Parks to have facelift
GOLFER OF THE YEAR: Sweet does job for Madison
YOUTH SOCCER: Local team gives 'care package' to children in Afghanistan
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Pressure is building to create a National Security Court to deal with the trial (or preventive detention without trial) of anyone accused of being a terrorist. For a chilling look at the concept, read "The Terrorists' Court" by Jack Goldsmith and Neal Katyal in The New York Times (July 11, 2007).
When you read phrases like "a congressionally sanctioned system of preventive detention," "the standards of proof for evidence ... might not meet every jot and tittle of American criminal law," or "detainees need not be given the full panoply of criminal protections," you may be tempted to say, "So what? After all, we're talking about foreign terrorists."
Not so, according to Goldsmith and Katyal, "Congress should insist that the same rules apply to citizen and non-citizen terrorist detainees" to be "consistent with the values enshrined in the Constitution's equal protection clause." George Orwell couldn't have said it better.
All Americans, whether Republicans or Democrats, liberals or conservatives, who value our hard-won Constitutional rights should be outraged at any attempt to deny those rights to any American.
I, for one, have no intention of submitting to a police state, whether imposed by the left or the right.
A National Security Court for Americans? No way!
John R. Merrill
Augusta




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