this is why i was against the holding of jose padilla.
hope i spelled his name right. he is an american
citizen and not like some of the others held at gitmo.
citizens get constitutional right, abe lincoln
violated this too. but that is history. 
--- "Kendall D. Corbett" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Mike and Ken,
> 
> Oops!
> 
> I just went to the John Birch Society's webpage and
> found that conservatism
> is once again wrapping around to embrace some of the
> causes championed by
> liberals.  It seems that the John Birch Society is
> up in arms about the
> Constitutional abuses perpetrated by the Bush
> administration, and is
> actually calling for Gonzales' resignation, not on
> the basis of the firing
> of 8 US attorneys, but on the Administrations stance
> that there is no right
> to habeas corpus, because the Constitution does not
> specifically say that
> such a right exists.  What the Constitution _does_
> say (in Article I,
> Section 9) is:
> 
> "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."
> 
>
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articlei.html#section9
> 
> 
> Gonzales did not argue that the US was in a state of
> emergency requiring
> suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, he argued
> that it did not exist,
> because it had not been affirmatively granted.  In
> my opinion, that's a
> stretch, even for the most rigid strict
> constructionist.
> 
> http://www.jbs.org/node/3153
> 
> More later....
> -- 
> Kendall
> 
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all progress
> depends on the unreasonable man.
> 
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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