Shells collected by Brendan, my son.

Yesterday the United States Senate led by the Republicans and a few cowardly Democrats betrayed the fundamental values of my country by passing a bill that nullifies the Geneva Conventions even as it says the opposite, unconstitutionally undermines habeas corpus rights, and gives to the President potentially dictatorial powers.

Meanwhile, here in the Netherlands where I am for the moment, an 8 year old sits in a prison cell with his mother, an illegal alien from China, awaiting deportation. The boy was born in the Netherlands, has been educated in the Netherlands, and has lived nowhere else. He has zero rights to residence in the Netherlands. He and his mother will shortly be thrown to the wolves.