For the price of a senate seat you could own history...and a record of the rights the senate revoked

Yes, you've probably already read in the NY Times that a rare copy of the Magna Carta will go up for auction in here in NYC at Sotheby's in December. The Magna Carta is the first record of the rule of law circumscribing governmental rights and creating one of the cornerstones of justice in the English speaking world: habeas corpus, which prevents illegal detention of citizens. The Times does not mention this right specifically since we've lost that right in this country with the current regime of war criminals in the White House, and that might be bad form. They did mention that Sotheby's estimates the price the document will fetch is between $20 and 30 million dollars. Just about the price of a seat in the Senate, where is the only place in the United States that habeas corpus is worth the paper it is printed on.

May we all work for the restitution of our rights and freedoms as responsible and informed citizens. And may I live to see the day that George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and the entire crew of clownish cronies are brought up on crimes against humanity.