Catch 22: How to overcome the "No Habeas Corpus" clause?
Junkdrawer
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Thu Sep-28-06 09:08 PM
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Catch 22: How to overcome the "No Habeas Corpus" clause?
No Supreme Court review unless there's an actual case. No actual case without Habeas Corpus. :shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug:
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Thu Sep-28-06 09:10 PM
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You hit the nail on the head Junkdrawer. That means American citizens shipped off to Gitmo or some other hellhole and given military tribunals. Not even a mention of the Bill of Rights, won't apply to American 'illegal noncombatants'. Wish more people would realize that.
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Thu Sep-28-06 09:17 PM
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3. I don't think people have wrapped their heads around "No Habeas Corpus"...
yet. It's called "The Great Writ" for a reason.
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Thu Sep-28-06 09:29 PM
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7. Or the Magna Carta or the Bill of Rights or
The Great Writ - the BACKBONE of our US Constitution. Without it all is lost...
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Thu Sep-28-06 09:30 PM
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and apparently neither have the majority of senators. May they be caught up in the chimps tribunals someday, :puke:
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Thu Sep-28-06 09:23 PM
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4. I'm guessing those rationalizing secret forever prisons
Edited on Thu Sep-28-06 09:23 PM by Moochy
assume it will happen only to those with brown skin? :shrug:
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Thu Sep-28-06 09:31 PM
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9. As long as the M$M gives their audience reassurances,
I swear, some Americans won't EVER believe what has happen until they are dragged away...and even then I wonder. Torture in the name of freedom?
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Thu Sep-28-06 09:16 PM
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2. Methinks there will be a way to challenge this in the SCOTUS
Maybe not for awhile though. It's just disgusting.
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Thu Sep-28-06 09:27 PM
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5. Yep, that's the kicker.
You're officially in a dictatorship.
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Thu Sep-28-06 09:28 PM
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6. The Supremes will find a way to address it...
...if a Democrat ever gets elected President. It only takes four votes for the SCOTUS to take a case, after all.
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Thu Sep-28-06 09:34 PM
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10. Let's think this through....
Mr. X goes missing. Rumors are that Mr. X is at Gitmo, but the government denies all requests as to whom they are holding. Now, what are Mrs. X's options?
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