The prize for the headline of the year goes to today™s Washington Post for the following gem

The prize for the headline of the year goes to today™s Washington Post for the following gem:

Many Rights in NIKE SHOX Legal System Absent in New Bill

The Post article on the military tribunal bill the Senates passed yesterday details some of the legal

and procedural rights that people seized as enemy combatants will not possess. (Amnesty International

has a good summary of the bill here).

The Post article gives the impression that only aliens have to fear being treated slightly better

than East Bloc dissidents. But as a superb piece in yesterday™s Los Angeles Times by law professor

Bruce Ackerman noted, the legislation authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy

combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they

cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights.

When I clicked on the print version of the absent rights article, the page on the Washington Post

website included a hefty ad:Â Helping to Deliver Air Dominance for the NIKE SHOX – the Lockheed Martin

– Boeing – Pratt Whitney – F-22 Raptor.