have his carcase

I am rather busy at present working on the final version of a conference paper and (yet) another batch of job applications, not to mention hanging out in Park Slope coffeehouses and attending postmodern burlesque shows in little theaters on the Lower East Side. But I want to register my fury at the Senate's passage of the Graham amendment suspending the right of habeus corpus for Guantanamo prisoners and other noncitizen "detainees." In essense, the amendment will remove a detainee's ability (affirmed by the Supreme Court in Rasul v. Bush last year) to challenge his or her detainment. The Center for Constitutional Rights has a detailed explanation--and a list of Senators to contact and complain--on their site here. Also, read Jane Mayer's recent New Yorker piece on prisoner abuses in Iraq. Along with the many cases of mistaken identity and unnecessary imprisonment, as well as the recent revelations about the CIA's secret detention facilities in Eastern Europe, it underscores the reason the removal of the right to habeus corpus--have his carcase, show the body, prove your reasons for imprisoning this person--is so very chilling.