theposse.org: "There is no express grant of Habeas in the Constitution...

"There is no express grant of Habeas in the Constitution...

Posted by Temporal at 2007/01/23 23:14:17 CST

... there's a prohibition against taking it away." - Alberto Gonzales, United States Attorney General

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1625433168900063763#4m50s

OK, seriously... WTF? How evil do you have to be to try to equivocate your way out of Habeas Corpus? Without Habeas Corpus, none of our other rights even make sense. What difference does freedom of speech make if the government can jail you without cause?

2007/01/25 12:12:56 CST by Temporal

(Oops, a rare server crash lost Mike's post.)

Added at 2007/01/26 01:48:26 CST

(Or maybe the NSA deleted it?)

2007/01/29 11:03:04 CST by Mojo

[cue x-files music]

2007/01/30 20:00:36 CST by derch

mike? are you there? mike?