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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.
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.
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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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