Mitchell Rabin - America: Is this a Time for or More Snoozing or Waking Up?

By Mitchell Rabin, host of A Better World - Mondays at 6pm ET only on PRN

The tea is brewing, the coffee is being poured, and in other cases, the green juice is being Vita-mixed first thing in the morning in many American kitchens across the land. The sun is just beginning to peak in, another beautiful day, get the kids ready for school and then off to work. 

Yes, it's another day in the urban, suburban and rural life of an American. He and she assume a level of certainty that they live in a free country with all the protections conferred through the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The assumption is so strong, it is veritably a 'way of life', nothing we have to think about, because it is at the heart of our American society. Right?

Free speech, freedom of religion, the 5th Amend-ment, and the rest, right? It was right until just last week. Now it's wrong. This is not an assumption we can any longer make, because the Senate has just passed a bill called The Military Authorization Act, which, more than the Patriot or the Military Commission Acts both passed during the Bush-Cheney Administration, eviscerates, disembowels Habeas Corpus and Posse Comitatus. Excuse me?

Yes: the right to due process, a day in Court and that the military is prohibited from coming onto domestic soil and act against its own people militarily. Further, any foreigner or any American can be picked up and placed into unrestricted indefinite detention. No lawyer, no day in court, Nada. Is this the American way?

Are We Kidding that the Bill of Rights Has Just Been Given its Marching Orders by Congress?

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Progressive Radio Host Mitchell J. Rabin Mondays @ 6pm - Once Upon A Time....There was a Beautiful Planet

By Mitchell J. Rabin

Yes...there was a big, beautiful planet called Earth. And running all around her, as well as swimming inside her, were all types of interestingly shaped, sized and colored beings, each making their own unique sounds, hums and noises while moving about in their own unique ways. SSome walked, others crawled, some swam and yet others slithered. Despite the fact that some ate others for their sustenance, they all had a way of finding time to frolic, pro-create, rest, and those who were on land, bask in the warmth and rays of the sun. And in a strange, somewhat abstract way, all were somehow, more or less, co-existing on this beautiful, blue-green planet. 

At a certain point along the way of the multi-billion-year history of this marvel of an Earth, a green gem of the solar system, appeared a being known initially as Neanderthal, and who later, much later, came to be known as a chimpanzee, oh wait, excuse me, as homo sapiens. Yes, in one of his now considered ancient languages, this meant "rational, or wise man" with a brain volume of a minimum of 1,350 cubic centimeters. What we have learned from biology and history, it is apparently not size that most matters.

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