Elaine Meinel Supkis
The USA reacted to our own Reichstag fire on 9/11/1 by tearing up the Constitution and instituting a new regime that has no habeas corpus! Since that foul day, an American citizen has been held unconstitutionally for 6 years, tortured and abused, kept from family and friends and more importantly, LAWYERS. Join the ACLU in a day-long lobbying effort to restore Freedom and Demcracy! June 26th---I'll be there, reporting!
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Enroll now! I will love to set up a means of meeting everyone at this event. Last time, several readers came to the Peace March and we had a great time. I have done this in the past. It is great fun and you get to see the insides of the Halls of Congress.
Last time I did this, Trent Lott and I got in a big fight and we yelled at each other and I broke the story that a Senator was jumping to the Democratic Party and he would lose his leadership position! This is becasue an aide told me this earlier that day.
The news spread like wildfire and was on NPR that evening. Heh. You can, if you hang out there and needle people enough, learn things they want to hide and I want to discuss several things of importance. Both the Democrats and the Republicans have serious problems dealing with reality.
The main thing on this trip is to get our blasted Constitution back! Our Founding Fathers were very, very clear about habeas corpus: all of them faced possible execution as rebels but they won the Revolution by the skin of their teeth and the help of France. They wanted full protections for anyone arrested and Padilla is a perfect example of the sort of person habeas corpus covers: someone defying the state!
These laws were so important to our Founding Fathers they put it not in the Amendments like the right to bear arms but in the document itself! And destroying this destroys the entire American Revolution. Half of the revolutionaries were slave owners and they polluted the Constitution with slave laws which were finally cut out via a major Civil War, the worst war we ever fought.
The Democrats have made little headway in restoring our Constitution and it is now time to begin twisting arms...big time. And I want to twist the arms of Republicans, the few that are left in my own state of New York. And I want to warn the Democratic leadership they have little time to waste. And they must shut down Gitmo, a Nazi concentration camp that is in a Communist country. Not to mention the host of CIA secret prisons.
If anyone wants to go, please sign up and we can do all this in a group, if we want. And I would like to eat out together, too!
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"Padilla is a perfect example of the sort of person habeas corpus covers: someone defying the state!"
Habeas isn't a get-out-of-jail-free card. It's entirely possible to have a habeas hearing where the court rules, "Fine. Go ahead and hold him."
Posted by: JSmith | June 04, 2007 at 02:50 PM
If brought before a court, a charge has to be laid. With Padilla, he was not charged, just hidden away, a thing that Habeas Corpus was expressly written to prevent.
Posted by: Eric Blood Axe | June 04, 2007 at 05:52 PM
Smith is a Tory. And so he thinks the Constitution doesn't matter. Probably wants slavery to come back, too.
Posted by: Elaine Meinel Supkis | June 04, 2007 at 08:52 PM
Isn't the point that there has to be something important called "evidence" of a crime.
I was under the impression that with most of the detainees, all the so called evidence was tortured out of them or others.
The rest of the civilised world unlike Israel and the USA gave up on torture as a means of interrogation, because the victim always told the tortures what they thought they wanted to know, rather than the truth.
Oh and isn't torture a war crime, and the last thing Mad George wants is to be charged with war crimes.
Posted by: Suusi M-B | June 05, 2007 at 08:08 AM
"If brought before a court, a charge has to be laid."
I would have been fine with charging him. Charge him, try him, convict him, sentence him. That sequence worked fine in the "Jihad Johnny" case. (Remember him? Thought not. That's why I'm saying it worked fine.)
Posted by: JSmith | June 05, 2007 at 10:02 AM