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Last week i read an article that painted a rather grim picture of the order of things in the United States political system. Specifically the article addressed the US military justice system. Premise of the article, was the story of a top military defense attorney Colby Vokey who is leaving his post early next year. The gist of the article deals with various injustices and infringements on human rights as well as complete disregard for due process in United States military courts that is caused this defense attorney to stop believing in the military justice.

It’s sad to me, to see a top military defense attorney soo disillusioned with the justice system that he is leaving his rather high and respected post. Its rare nowadays to see a seasoned soldier leave the army he was once highly committed to. The article names several reasons for Vokey’s departure, but what it boils down to for me, is that current administration is pushing around the law and disregarding the constitutional due process on which this whole country was once build.
Consequently it makes me wonder, how long will it be until the civil courts are being pushed around in the same way the military are? Is civil or public defense law is even a viable work option anymore?

I realize that to most people, these issues are the least of their concerns. In fact i’m sure most americans are not worrying about having their civil liberties taken away, although every day that becomes more and more of a threat.
However, as i was reading the morning WSJ with my morning cup of delicious Pete’s coffee i ran across an article that was titled “Pentagon Forbids Marine to Testify”, so of course i read it.
It talked about how this morning an email from Bush administration forbid a Marine Corps lawyer from testifying before Congress about the severe techniques of torture employed by the US interrogators…. basically once again proving the fact that the current administration must be stopped before it destroys this country by playing it’s version of king of the hill.

I guess it’s just a little hard to believe in democracy when things like that happen in a country that claims to have founded the very concept. It seems to me that in the political process there are few things that are more sacred than due process of the law and once that line gets blurred we are headed for some shady times.

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