[Peace-discuss] We struggle up toward the level of the 13th century

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Lead story yesterday on Channel 3 CBS News at 5, with Jennifer Roscoe saying something like, "The Supreme Court today dealt a blow to President Bush's war on terror..."  with NO mention of the constitution or habeas corpus... And folks were encouraged to weigh in w/ their opinions on... how much should be spent on weddings! (Yeah, I know, what'd I expect.)
 --Jenifer

--- On Fri, 6/13/08, John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] We struggle up toward the level of the 13th century
To: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>
Cc: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Date: Friday, June 13, 2008, 5:15 AM




On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:12 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:


"...Alexander Hamilton's Federalist No. 84: 'The practice of arbitrary imprisonments, in all ages, is the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.' It is that deeply tyrannical practice -- implemented by the Bush administration and authorized by a bipartisan act of Congress -- which the U.S. Supreme Court, today, struck down.

And the truly scary part is that it was struck down - for the third time in five years, I might add - by a margin of only 5-4.  Four of our eminent "Justices" apparently find the practice perfectly acceptable.  So if we elect McCain, and he appoints one more Neanderthal S.C. justice, we can kiss habeas corpus good-bye for 100 years.

 
"The Military Commissions Act of 2006 was -- and remains -- one of the great stains on our national political character. It was passed by a substantial majority in the Senate (65-34) with the support of every single Senate Republican (except Chafee) and 12 Senate Democrats. No filibuster was even attempted. It passed by a similar margin in the House, where 34 Democrats joined 219 Republicans to enact it..." <http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/>.

See Peter Linebaugh, "The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All" (U. California Press, 2008). --CGE
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