So Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says we do not actually have a right to habeas corpus, which was created in the Magna Carta, practiced by even the British Crown we defeated and included in the body rather than amendments of our Constitution. In fact, habeas corpus is the single most important right we have, for it is the mechanism through which all others are protected.
A writ of habeas corpus orders the government to tell us the specific reason we are being held in custody and give us a judicial hearing in which we have an opportunity to challenge the charges, witnesses and evidence against us and present evidence on our behalf. How valuable is your freedom of speech if the government can arrest and imprison you for criticism without telling you why, giving you a hearing, or even disclosing your arrest? If you can be lawfully disappeared, all of your other rights are meaningless, aren't they?
In truth, the right of habeas corpus is the foundation of foundations. It is based in the inalienable right of freedom, of liberty. It says that no government can take away your freedom without first proving you did something to forfeit it.
It could be that Gonzales's statement is simply what happens when you put ambitious sycophants with the wrong qualifications (however well-educated) in charge of the most crucial governmental functions of the most consequential nation in the world at a time of national and international crisis. That would be bad enough.
What concerns me more is that Gonzales may have let slip some secret intellectual grounding for ignoring our inalienable rights devised by the same devious Administration brains claiming the President can ignore laws he does not like and treaties he does not agree with.
Gonzales supported his statement that we have no RIGHT to habeas corpus with this reasoning: "The Constitution doesn't say every individual in the United States or citizen is hereby granted or assured the right of habeas corpus. It doesn't say that. It simply says the right shall not be suspended" except in certain cases. Here is what the Constitution says in Article I, § 9: "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."
In other words, what Gonzales appears to be saying is that if the Constitution does not specifically state that the people have a certain right, they don't have that right. If this is what he meant, and if it represents deeper thinking among those highly placed in power, then we should all be shaking with fear down to our bones. For such a theory would literally turn the entire basis of our government for the past 230 years upside down and could be the jumping off point to eliminate the sovereignty of the people.
The great Robert Parry has already pointed out that the First Amendment is worded in a similar indirect fashion, simply stating that Congress "shall pass no law . . . restricting . . . nor abridging. . . ." certain freedoms or practices. Other Amendments are similarly worded. Applying Gonzales's reasoning we have no right to speak freely, to a free press, to practice religion, to peaceably assemble, perhaps to bear arms or be free from cruel and unusual punishment. See Parry, Gonzales Questions Habeas Corpus, in Oped News.
Hell, we don't even have a right to "life, liberty or property" under Gonzales's thinking. The Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment simply states that no person "shall be deprived of life liberty or property without due process of law." It does not create a right to life, liberty or property. These are very important points that we should heed and shout out to all who sleep through this attempted theft of our sovereignty.
But I want to take the argument a step farther. The founders and drafters of our Constitution chose not to use language CREATING OR GRANTING fundamental rights or freedoms for a very important reason. They believed these rights inherently belonged to the people already. We needed no constitution to CREATE rights that we already had BY VIRTUE OF BEING HUMAN. Our founders actually feared that listing certain rights would lead to the conclusion that those not listed did not exist. Thus, the Constitution merely "enumerates" certain rights considered uniquely at jeopardy at the time. The Ninth Amendment plainly shows this and conclusively rebuts Gonzales: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
What I am talking about is not political-theory esoterica or lofty debating. This is about the very nature of liberal democratic society and the ONLY feature that separates it from authoritarianism or fascism. I have resisted claiming we are headed toward fascism, but Gonzales's statement has me worried.
Our founders believed, as had European predecessors such as John Locke and Jean Jacques Russeau, that all power, all sovereignty, rested solely with the people. As our Declaration of Independence states, all people are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights." Thus, the fundamental rights we have as human beings are not created by governments, by votes or even by Constitutions. They simply are.
Now, our founders believed that free people can come together and create governments and give those governments certain of the people's powers. However, the purpose of creating such a government, as the Declaration again makes clear, is to "secure these rights," referring to the inalienable rights with which we are all born. The Preamble to our Constitution spells this out as well. "We the People . . . ordain and establish the United States of America."
Our founders also believed, and our Constitution is clearly based on the premise that, governments have ONLY the powers SPECIFICALLY given them by the people. All powers not granted to the government remain with the people. In case anyone wonders why the founders did not just make this plain, they did. The Tenth Amendment says it loud: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
Gonzales's argument stands for exactly the opposite: that rights only exist if specifically created in the same document that also creates the government, and that the government's power is only limited by specifically listed rights. The upshot is that people do not have inherent rights as human beings, but only politically created rights as citizens of a state. Dangerous ground, this.
If people do not have inherent rights that cannot be taken away without their specific consent, then the people do not have any inherent power either. Rights and power are two sides of the same coin, if you will. If I lack the right to freedom, I lack the power to tell anyone, say a government, that they cannot take my freedom.
Bruce is 46 year-old father of one, stepfather of three and grandfather of two, who left a lucrative law practice at a large national law firm to work, advocate and write for social justice and equality and find a way to incorporate a spiritual life into the material world. He now struggles along to make a decent living while holding true to his deepest principles in Portland Oregon.
He knew EXACTLY what he was saying, and, as you point out, he believes it and everything that means.
If he didn't understand what he was saying, then he is 100% unqualified for the position he currently holds. Or, even the title of "laywer" or the right to hold a degree of law.
Yes, you can, as always with the Republicans, have your choice: incompetent or evil, but either way, he's not worthy. He should be in the first ten in line at the gallows when the dust settles. And hell, that line may stretch all the way from Washington, DC to Texas.
Charlie L
Portland, OR
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Charlie L (2 articles, 3 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 674 comments)
on Saturday, January 20, 2007 at 10:51:22 AM
CyberChas, they should send Gonzales back to Mexico to be hung. Someone else mentioned that in another article. Down there in Mexico it won't be so quick and easy, the rope won't hang him by the neck.
It will be death by hanging from his testicles, that's if he truly has any.
In the old day's, Bush and Gonzales use to think they were Cheech and Chong, definitely butt buddies.
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Fred F (1 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 361 comments)
on Saturday, January 20, 2007 at 11:51:03 AM
Thanks for the comment, Cyberchas. I agree he almost certainly knew what he was saying and what it means, but I think we have to allow the possibility that he just does not understand the basis of our government well enough. It would not be hard to get through law school and several years as a corporate attorney without ever being taught the political theory underlying our system. Trust me, I went to law school in Texas and worked at a Texas corporate law firm for 11 years. I was one of the few lawyers I knew who bothered to learn Constitutional theory.
I also think its worth pointing out that the Bush Administration argues incompetence against charges of nefarious intent almost as if ineptitude is no a problem at all in the highest governmental officials in the land.
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Bruce Allen Morris (34 articles, 0 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 48 comments)
on Saturday, January 20, 2007 at 1:22:46 PM
"I also think its worth pointing out that the Bush Administration argues incompetence against charges of nefarious intent almost as if ineptitude is no a problem at all in the highest governmental officials in the land."
There is more truth in this sentence than there is in the entire CONgress. Bush is a lackey. To accuse him of incompetence implies that he is deserving of forgiveness for his actions.
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Steve (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 27 comments)
on Saturday, January 20, 2007 at 6:07:33 PM
THE FINAL...FINAL SOLUTION...REVEALED,IN ENTIRETY!
THERE IS QUITE A SAD SIGHT BEFORE MY EYES.WRITER'S EVERYWHERE WRITING WE ARE IN THE GRAVEST OF PERIL AS CITIZENS IN THIS NATION(AMERICA)...YET THE COMMAN AMERICAN MAN IS TO BUSY LISTENING TO WHAT THEY CALL MUSIC WITH HEADPHONES ON THEIR HEADS,EVERYWHERE YOU GO!
EXCUSE ME,'' STUPIDOS''!!!!...
...TORTURE IS NOW LEGAL!NO NATION HAS EVER DONE WHAT THE BUSHLER IN THE WHITE HOUSE JUST MANAGED TO DO.LEGALIZE KIDNAPPING,TORTURE AND BLACKMAIL...ETC OF LAWABIDING CITIZENS(AND THEIR CHILDREN TOO!) OF THEIR OWN NATION.
BUT!!!
OH! WAIT,YES; ONLY ONE OTHER NATION IN MAN'S 6000 YEAR HISTORY HAS CODIFIED THE LAWFUL TORTURE OF BOTH IT'S OWN CITIZENS...AND ANYONE ELSE IT DEEMS(DISOBEDIENT)IF YOU WILL,"""MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006!"""
AND THE MONKEY WITH HIS HAND IN THE BARREL OF NUTS IS..
DA DUM...THE VATICAN!
NOT EVEN ROME PERMITTED ITS CITIZENS TO BE BEAT WITHOUT A TRIAL AND FORMALITIES OF LAW BEING FULFILLED.
THE VATICAN HAS SHED MORE BLOOD, AND INNOCENT BLOOD, BY FAR ;THAN ALL OTHER NATIONS THROUGHTOUT ALL MANS 6000 YEAR HISTORY COMBINED!!!PROPER STUDY ON YOUR PART WILL PROVE ME 100%RIGHT!
TRUST(EXAMINED)
TRUST IS A DANGEROUS WORD.HOWEVER,BLIND TRUST IS ALSO KNOWN AS ''SUICIDE!''!!!!FOR THOSE WHO BLINDLY TRUSTED THE NAZI'S IN GERMANY,THE COMMUNIST'S IN BOTH RUSSIA AND CHINA...I REMIND YOU OF THREE...JUST THREE NAMES...HITLER,STALIN AND MAO TSE TUNG!
1)HITLER-OVER 55 MILLION DEAD AS A RESULT OF THE WAR HE STARTED...12 MILLION SENT TO GERMAN(plus)DEATH CAMPS TO THEIR DEATHS...6 MILLION WERE JEWS,ABOUT 5 1/2 TO 6 MILLION MORE WERE NOT JEWS .MASS GRAVES ARE STILL BEING UNEARTHED WHICH WE ONLY RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN YUGOSLAVIAN TERRITORIES THAT THE NAZI'S WERE RESPONCIBLE FOR!
2)STALIN MURDERED AROUND 40 TO 45 MILLION PLUS OF HIS OWN RUSSIAN CITIZENS.AND THE GREATEST MASS MURDERER OF ALL TIME...
3)MAO TSE TUNG OF CHINA ...HE IS REPORTED TO HAVE MURDERED ABOUT 45 TO 50 OR MORE MILLION OF HIS OWN PEOPLE!PROBALLY MORE!!!
AND LITERALLY ALL THESE CITIZENS OF THESE THREE NATIONS ONLY COMMITTED ONE BASIC AND COMMON CRIME....THEY WERE ""CONSIDERED TREATS TO THEIR DICTATORS RULE"" BY VIRTURE OF THE FACT THAT THEIR DICTATORS SAID SO!
MEDIA!
(POETIC INTERLUDE!)
AHHH!
HOW COULD WE HAVE ANOTHER HOLOCAUST WITHOUT YE!FOR YE ARE THE BREASTS WHICH SUCKLE THE IGNORANT MASSES...FROM WOMB TO GRAVE.AND YE ARE THE DARLING OF THE BLACK MASSES...WHERE BOTH POLITICIAN AND MINISTER APPEAR,SO SOLEMN AND SO GRAVE!
BUT WOE TO YE, YE BURDEN OF HELL...FOR NOW THE GIANT FROM THE PIT HAS DETERMINED EVEN YE TO FELL!
FOR I SMELL THE FOUL ODOR OF Z'GERMAN CAESAR..CRUEL AND UNMERCIFUL AS WERE HIS NAZI FATHERS...
AND HIS ACTS WILL BE WOES LEFT FOR ALL MAN TO FOREVER TELL,
AS HE DESTROYS THE PRESS IN EVERY NATION...ALL IN THE NAME OF PEACE...AND,OH HOW THE MEDIA SHOULD YELL!!! FOR THE BEAST HAST NOT RELINQUISHED ITS HORRORS ITS COMMITTED FOR AGES AS WRONG AND SIN..RATHER YET...LOOK,IT'S TEETH ARE SORELY SHARPENED...BEHOLD,THE FINAL SOLUTION TIS IT'S PLAN...ONCE AGAIN!
MAYBE THE WORDS YE UTTERED...TO DIVIDE ISRAEL...WERE JEST,AND MAYBE THE BUSHES JUST ECHOED THE WIND.
BUT WOE TO YE GERMAN NO MAN CAN TRUST...FOR YOUR HELL'S CAESAR (ALL) AS A "" MAN OF SIN "" !
BUT TRUTH HAST A QUOTE,A MEMORIES MUST...THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT AGAIN!
END
BY SEVENUS USSEVEN
DOUBLEARTY@YAHOO COPYRIGHT 2007
I SPEAK HERE OF TWO SETS OF SPEACHES AND VARIOUS NEW LAWS AND PROPOSED LAWS.AND AS WELL OF HISTORY AND THE LONG VEIL OF BLINDNESS THAT HAS OBSCURED THE MOST PAINFULLY OBVIOUS TRUTH FROM MOST MENS EYES FOR WELL OVER 1400 YEARS!
1ST ON PURIM(STUDY MEANING OF PURIM) ,IN 2000 FROM MARCH 20-22 TWO EVIL LEADERS MET IN JERUSALEM.
THEIR DEMAND WAS THAT ISRAEL BE PARTED BETWEEN THEM AND THAT A PLO LED AND RULED PALESTINIAN NATION BE CREATED OUT OF SOVEREIGN ISRAEL!
ARAFAT WAS ONE, AND KARL THE CAESAR FROM THE VATICAN(THE OLDEST DICTATORSHIP ON EARTH)WAS THE OTHER.
ARAFAT HAD DONE AS HE WAS TOLD IN THE LATE 90'S ,AND PROPOSED A 7YR PEACE PLAN.THE VATICAN HAS BIRTHED ,RATHER MAKE THAT ""REBIRTHED"" ,''THE FINAL SOLUTION '' ;IN IT'S ATTEMPT TO ALLEGEDLY BRING PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND,THUSLY THE WORLD!
PEACE I MIGHT ADD...IT HAS DISRUPTED,IN ORDER TO SUBMITT IT'S OWN SOLUTION!YOU SEE,THE PLO IS A JESUIT INSURGENT ORGANIZATION!JESUIT FORMED AND JESUIT ORDERED!THATS RIGHT,ORDERED!
ONE ,IT PRAYS BRINGS IT GLORY AND WORSHIP.FOR THE VATICAN'S SOLE GOAL IS TO STEAL LOVE HONOR GLORY AND WORSHIP FROM MAN AWAY FROM THE CREATOR AND HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON JESUS CHRIST...THE LIVING MESSIAH,TO IT'S SATAN POSSESSED SUBSTITUTE THE CAESAR IN THE VATICAN...WHOSE MITRE HAS THE INSCRIPTION ON IT ADDING UP TO 666 IN THE ROMAN NUMERALS!!
LET US EXAMINE THIS CLOSELY.
1
HITLER WAS VATICAN PLANTED ,LED,INSPIRED AND UPHELD!HE WAS THEIR MAN...AS WAS MUSSOLINI,STALIN AND EVERY DICTATOR EVER FOR THE PAST CENTURY!
I WON'T EVEN BEGIN TO ATTEMPT TO REVEAL THE PAST HORRID 1400 YRS PLUS OF VATICAN EVILS,CONCERNING THEIR PLACING AND ERASING OF DICTATORS(AND LAWFUL LEADERS OF NATIONS...SUCH AS JF KENNEDY!) AROUND THE WORLD ,BY THE EVIL VATICAN!
BUT ALAS...TIS NOT THIS THE WAY OF EVERY CAESAR'S SON?FOR WHENCE COMETH WARS AND PERPETUAL GENOCIDE TO ALL MEN AND NATIONS...HAS ALWAYS BEEN BORN OF ONE!
MARCH 20-22 PURIM KARL CALLS THE GENOCIDAL MASS MURDERING (BEAST)ARAFAT YOUR EXCELLENCY! HAW UTTERLY APOSTATE!
NO CHRISTIAN COULD EVER EVEN CONSIDER CALLING ANYONE LIKE ARAFAT """YOUR EXCELLENCY''!NO,IT WAS ALL PART OF A BROADER PLAN.
THEY BOTH DEMANDED ISRAEL BE PARTED AND A PLO LED AND HEADED PALESTINAN STATE BE CREATED OUT OF ISRAEL....SOVEREIGN ISRAEL!!!
THIS PARLEYED BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THEM FOR THE DURATION OF PURIM!
FAST FORWARD.
ARAFAT HAD FAILED TO GARNER SADDAM HUSSEINS APPROVAL FOR A PLO STATE TO BE CREATED OUT OF ISRAEL!HIS VATICAN/USA ORDERS WERE NOT MET SATISFACTORIALLy!AS,THIS WAS HIS PRIMARY ORDER.THE VATICAN HAD IT'S WORLD PRESS BEAST PUFF ARAFAT HIS WHOLE LIFE...YET,HE FAILED TO WIN THE PRIZE...IRAQ.WITH THE FINAL OBJECTIVE OF COURSE BEING ISRAEL BEING PARTED...THEN DESTROYED!
INSTEAD SADDAM HAD CONTINUALLY LIKE OSAMA BIN LADEN DEMANDED THE OUT RIGHT DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL,INSTEAD!AT THE CLOSE OF THIS SCENARIO,KARL WAS REFUSED THE RIGHT TO VISIT IRAQ...BY HUSSEIN!
CHECK THE RECORD.WE INVADED.AND THAT RIGHT AFTER BUSHLER SAYS TO KARL THE CAESAR IN THE VATICAN AND BEFORE THE WORLD PRESS(ON CAMERA OF COURSE) WE THE USA WANT PEACE, WORLD PEACE..
AND BY GOD ,DAMMIT; WE ARE GOING TO WAGE WAR ON EVERY NATION TO GET IT,IF WE HAVE TO !
ARE'NT WE CAESAR?
ALL WITH DESTROYING ISRAEL...AS THE END GOAL!
THE FINAL SOLUTION!
AMERICA FELL WHEN REAGAN APPOINTED LINDY BOGGS AS THE AMBASSADOR TO THE VATICAN...THE FIRST SCINCE LINCOLNS MURDER BY THE VATICAN SENT JESUITS,WHO HAD HIM ASSASSINATED!
SO,THEN BUSH DECLARES IN A WORLD WIDE SPEACH THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A FREE IRAQ FIRST AND THEN A PLO NATION STATE MADE OUT OF SOVEREIGN ISRAEL!
THAT WAS ON JUNE 24,2002.OH!
HE ALSO DEMANDED ISRAEL MURDER ARAFAT,AS HE HAD FAILED TO GARNER SADDAMS SUPPROT FOR A PLO STATE,WHICH WAS THE ONLY REASON WHY THE USA EVER EVEN DEALT WITH HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE.
ARAFAT HAD DEMANDED TO THE CAESARS HE COULD AND WOULD BRING SADDAM AROUND/HE FAILED.HE WAS MURDERED.I THINK ABOUT 18 MONTHS AFTER DEMANDING ARAFATS REMOVEL/...FRENCH DOCTORS DECLARED HE WAS DEAD,MURDERED BY POISONING!
SO, NICE SPEACH THERE BUSHLER!
I THINK ME THE LAST SANE JOURNALIST AND JEWISH AMERICAN ALIVE.FOR THAT MATTER EVEN AMERICAN,TOO AT THAT!
DOES NOT EVERYONE SEE THE PLAINLY OBVIOUS1
THE VATICAN HAS NEVER RECOGNIZED ISRAELS SOVEREIGNTY AS A NATION AMOUNGST NATIONS!
IT NEVER WILL.
THE VATICAN IS THE LITTLE HORN FROM THE ROMAN BEAST IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL!
BUSH MADE THREE EARTH SHATTERING STATEMENTS.
FIRST CAESAR SET THE STAGE.
PART ISRAEL,MAKE A PLO STATE...HE DEMANDED!
THEN BUSH,WE...WILL PART ISRAEL!WE WILL MAKE IRQ FREE FIRST.AND BY THE WAY...BANG...YOUR DEAD ARAFAT!
SUMMING UP....MARCH 2000 FROM 20-22 WAS PURIM.THIS WAS WHEN THE ENEMY MET AND CONCOCTED THE PLAN TO DESTROY ALL JEWS.EVEN AS IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER!AND PURIM IS THE DATE OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLANNED PARTING!
WE WON ,AS JEWS THEN...AND WE SHALL OVERCOME AGAIN!
THE FOES ARE FAR MIGHTER THIS TIME HOWEVER THAN EVER BEFORE OR EVER AGAIN...AS TIME WILL PROVE!
ONLY JESUS'S RETUREN WILL SAVE ANY.MANY NATIONS ARE GOING TO BE TOTALLY DESTROYED BECUSE OF THEIR BEING DECEIVED INTO WARRING AGAINST ISRAE! THE CURSE OF GODS' WRATH BE UPON ALL THAT DIVIDE HER!JOEL. SEE BOOK OF JOEL!
IN CONCLUSION,HOW CAN YE BE SURPRISED WHEN AMERICA PASSES LAWS THAT ARE JUST ""VATICAN CANON LAWS''!AND THATS WHAT EVERY OPPRESSIVE LAW WE HAVE RECENTLY PASSED IS...CANON LAW FROM THE PAGES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES CANON LAWS.
TORTURE,THEY ALREADY SAY THEY HAVE THAT RIGHT6...EVEN SO FAR AS TO DECALRE BLASPHEMOUSLY THAT THEY CAN PUNISH WITH MEDICINE'S!AND MANY MORE SUCH NONSENSES...WHICH THEY DO EMPLOY WORLDWIDE,IN THEIR STRUGGLE TO DESTROY BOTH CHRISTIAN ,JEW AND MOST OF ALL TRUTH!FOR WITHOUT TRUTH THERE WOULD BE NO JEW OR CHRISTIAN EITHER,AS WELL!
THE LAST MOVE IS IN PROGRESS.TO OUT LAW THE WIRELESS AND ALL NON-VATICAN APPROVED(VIA-YOUR STATES) COMMUNICATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS ACCESSES! OF ALL INTERNET ,ESPECIALLY!
RIGHT NOW CONGRESS IS CONSIDERING A SET OF LAWS OR BILLS TO ILLEGALIZE CORRESPONDANCE'S,THAT REACH MORE THAN 5OO PEOPLE VIA THE INTERNET...UNLESS YOUR REPORTING TO THEM...THE CONGRESS!
THE CONGRESS THAT JUST PASASED THE WORST LAWS ANY NATION OUTSIDE THE VATICAN HAS EVER PASSED IN ALL MAN'S 600 YEAR HISTORY!
OH!YEA,THE SENATE HELPED.YEA,THEY COULDNT HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT THE SENATE...AND HEADPHONES.HEADPHONES WORN BY BLINDLY TRUSTING DUNCES UNABLE TO READ THINK OR FELL FOR THEMSELVES ANYTHING ORIGINAL OR CREATIVE.I CALL THEM THE APATHISTS OF HELL!!
AND HOLOCAUSTS NEVER HAPPEN WITHOUT APATHISTS! SO...YES ,YOU ARE CORRECT.SLY,SOVEREGINTY IS BEING STOLEN.BUT IT'S THE SAME OLE SAME OLE.JESUITS IN...SOVEREGINTY OUT.PERSECUTIONS IN,FREEDOM AND PEACE AND SAFETY OUT.HOLOCAUSTS IN AND WORLD WIDE...SPREAD TILL YOU KNOW WHO DECALRES THEY HAVE THE ...SOLUTION....AGAIN..
THE FINAL...FINAL SOLUTION!
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chief weeping tree (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 2 comments)
on Saturday, January 20, 2007 at 4:20:35 PM
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,... "
A Foudation for/of 'Habeas Corpus' which, according to this sites current writing ..Titled under US 2.2.3 "Suspension in the United States during the "War on Terrorism" "
Tells that American Citizens still have that right afforded to them...regaurdless of your Attorney Generals' Impression of it...as this is Court rendered....Law of the Land!
But watch out for attempts to change that, too...cause as a Canadian I find "America" (American Values) as I have come to know it, (Them) seems to be disappearing with some new 'entity' growing out of the Current Governance
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Mr. Robin Parsons (1 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 64 comments)
on Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 8:45:31 AM
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