Thursday, September 28, 2006

 

New headline of the day...Republicans Reject 'Habeas Corpus'

America, you no longer have the right to contest your incarceration at the hands of this government. You can be detained as an "enemy combatant" and you have no rights to appeal your incarceration, or face your accusers, and you can be tortured on top of it all, and there is nothing you can do. They dont need to notify anyone, friends, family, anyone. Habeas Corpus has not ever legally been suspended. The following is a copy from the American Patriot Network website:

http://www.civil-liberties.com/pages/did_lincoln.htm

As the Civil War started, in the very beginning of Lincoln's presidential term, a group of "Peace Democrats" proposed a peaceful resolution to the developing Civil War by offering a truce with the South, and forming a constitutional convention to amend the U.S. Constitution to protect States' rights. The proposal was ignored by the Unionists of the North and not taken seriously by the South. However, the Peace Democrats, also called copperheads by their enemies, publicly criticized Lincoln's belief that violating the U.S. Constitution was required to save it as a whole. With Congress not in session until July, Lincoln assumed all powers not delegated in the Constitution, including the power to suspend habeas corpus. In 1861, Lincoln had already suspended civil law in territories where resistance to the North's military power would be dangerous. In 1862, when copperhead democrats began criticizing Lincoln's violation of the Constitution, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus throughout the nation and had many copperhead democrats arrested under military authority because he felt that the State Courts in the north west would not convict war protesters such as the copperheads. He proclaimed that all persons who discouraged enlistments or engaged in disloyal practices would come under Martial Law.

Among the 13,000 people arrested under martial law was a Maryland Secessionist, John Merryman. Immediately, Hon. Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States issued a writ of habeas corpus commanding the military to bring Merryman before him. The military refused to follow the writ. Justice Taney, in Ex parte MERRYMAN, then ruled the suspension of habeas corpus unconstitutional because the writ could not be suspended without an Act of Congress. President Lincoln and the military ignored Justice Taney's ruling.

Finally, in 1866, after the war, the Supreme Court officially restored habeas corpus in Ex-parte Milligan, ruling that military trials in areas where the civil courts were capable of functioning were illegal.

Copyright, 1999
American Patriot Network
Not the first time in history that the Radical Republicans have ignored the Constitution. This time the military may not go along with the disasterpresident.
The question now America, How long are you willing to let this Radical Republican government suspend your rights and ignore your Federal Judges. The answer to this is till November when you can vote this Radical Republican RubberStamp Congress out of office and get some people in that think their job is representing you and keeping you FREE and SAFE.

Good luck and sleep tight tonight if you can,
Phillip Wister

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