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US Senate Fails To Reinstate Habeas Corpus
Khyber notes that yesterday a vote in the US Senate fell four votes short of what was needed to restore habeas corpus — the fundamental right of individauls to challenge government detention. Here is the record of the vote on the Cloture Motion to restore Habeas Corpus. Article 4 of the US Constitution states that habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless in cases of rebellion and invasion when the public safety may require it.
Excellent point. If those filthy savages living (if it can be called living) outside of the United States want to be treated like human beings, they can damn well apply to become a vassal of the Union. If we just give them basic human rights, then what's their incentive to knuckle under?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
And exactly under which Army or Country do these militants fall so as to be extended Genevea Convention rights again?
In the UK it is "Her royal subject" Personally I wish the PIRA succeeded in blowing up the Royal family. There is no place for them in an equal society.
http://www.rense.com/general79/wdx1.htm
I think it's a given that, regardless of the makeup of any particular Congress, that the minority will spend a good deal of time threatening fillibusters, and the majority will be decrying the minority's interference with the process. It makes not one bit of difference who makes up the majority and the minority.
In short, ever civics class should teach this simple truth about politics in democratic states; "What is good for the goose is hardly ever good for the gander."
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
Um, which part of the bio is incorrect?
Did Leahy not, in fact, leak classified information to the press? Was he not investigated for that / other leaks? Had I quoted a TIME article on Leahy's breaches of National Security would that have made it more true?
As for the insults, those always make the insulter look sooooo intelligent. Keep it up!
Why in the hell is there even a DEBATE about granting CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS to those would seek to have our Constitution DESTROYED? Oh, have all the people detained by our military been charged with seeking to overthrow our government, given fair trials, and been convicted? I hadn't heard.
He doesn't seem to feel that jurisdiction applies to him, at any rate, so it seems only natural.
The traitors who should be tried for violating the Constitution and their oath to it:
Meanwhile, Republicans have filibustered a record number of bills that Democrats, who shut out Republicans in last year's elections, have been trying to pass. These Republicans, who so attacked Democrats for attempting to use an occasional filibuster while Republicans controlled the majority, now filibuster practically every bill Democrats try to pass. Republicans almost used the "nuclear option" to rewrite centuries-old Senate rules protecting the filibuster, to ram through their legislation. Now they've flipped the script, abusing the filibuster at every chance.
Before you say "that's just politics", remember that what hangs in the balance is your liberty. When the cops come to round you up in secret, on a malicious tip or just some typical bureaucratic mistake, then torture you to death because "you won't talk", the idea that it was "just politics" won't help you any.
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The entire country is DEAD. We've lost. It is not America anymore. The sooner we all realize it, the better of we'll be. They will do what they want, when they want because they can. Whatever freedoms you think you have, you are wrong. We live in a police state controlled by capitalism and the wealthy. It only serves the wealthy and they are the only ones with civil liberties.
I'm sure it wouldn't hurt you to do a little research. Find out why!
A man such as you, able to use homophones in lieu of the correct vocabulary, and so engrossed with his own sense of self that he does not need to read rebuttals to know that they are worthless, is not an adversary against whom I should engage myself.
Therefore, you MUST be right! That word you grafted into the preamble must have simply been invisible to an inferior man such as myself. You, born of noble blood and superior to a commoner such as me, have graced me by speaking my name! I feel humbled, and honored that you have shown me the ephemeral truth that my senses cannot detect on their own.
You can't take the sky from me...
Two? So it was a conspiracy?
who were editors of a newspaper in Pakistan
Propagandists for al Quaeda, you mean? Certainly one of the many #2s and 3s of that organisation that we've neutralized. But of course you bleeding heart liberals want to free them again so they can kill Americans, and puppies.
one that offered a reward of about $25 for the capture of Bill Clinton
So they wanted to abduct the president of the US, probably to behead him on Al Jazeera.
after he ordered an attack on that aspirin factory in Africa.
Cavuto says it was a WMD factory. But of course you believe everything the Islamofacists tell you.
One of the brothers was released after 3 years,
See? The system works.
the other is apparently still in lockup.
Of course he is, because he is guilty. If he weren't guilty why would he be in Guantanamo. But you, of course, want to release terrorists so they can kill us because they hate our freedom. Are you a traitor?
The sad fact is that the above is a more or less faithful representation of how FoxNews would treat this story.
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
My understanding is that many of the people were not 'captured on the battlefield' but in fact were turned in for a reward.
Yeah, and every time we drop a bomb it miraculously hits a wedding party. Sheesh! Westerners live sooft lives and are SO easily suckered by a soft, dramatic story. Funny how every rapist is caught in his very first attack, every druggie is caught with somebody else's drugs, every trespasser was just lost, every shoplifter just forgot to pay, everybody in gitmo was an innocent tourist either accidentally holding an AK-47 or sold to the Americans by some evil warlord... I heard that when the US and USSR rolled into Germany in 1945 they discovered that NOBODY there had ever been a NAZI...
Also, your 'end of conflict' has no meaning here since there will never be an end to terror, it is as old as mankind and will exist until the end of days, so your 'end of conflict' release does not exist in a 'war on terror'.
It works PERFECTLY! If Bin Laden wants his boys back, he can end the war. If he chooses not to then they sit and rot as part of the price of being chumps who followed that pig. Wanna discourage unlawful combatants? Make it clear that they will disappear into a deep, dark hole until the war ends; this will not solve the problem, but will reduce the pool of recruits to just the hardcore idiots.
Gitmo...just another reason why being a terrorist sucks!
Today is one of those sad days for you, Anonymous zombie Coward, where you think the destruction of our liberties is happening just on a message board. It's pigs like that who are destroying liberty in real life. And sleepwalkers like you who are letting them get away with it.
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