I am not familiar with the link (click on the title) above so I can not attest to its credibility. However it was passed on by GG and I can attest to hers.And the tears you hear falling are those of your grandchildren who will some day come home from school after reading a banned version of American History and say Grandpa, why did you let this happen?
Gonzales Questions Habeas Corpus
By Robert Parry
January 19, 2007
In one of the most chilling
public statements ever made
by a U.S. Attorney General,
Alberto Gonzales questioned whether the U.S.
Constitution grants habeas corpus rights of a fair
trial to every American. Responding to questions from
Sen. Arlen Specter at a Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing on Jan. 18, Gonzales argued that the
Constitution doesn’t explicitly bestow habeas corpus
rights; it merely says when the so-called Great Writ
can be suspended. “There is no expressed grant of habeas
in the Constitution; there’s a prohibition against
taking it away,” Gonzales said." Gonzales’s remark left
Specter, the committee’s ranking Republican, stammering".
We made mention of this problem awhile back when we
wrote on the Military commissions and it's direct
contradiction of the US Constitution. Heres what
the constitution says: Article I, Section 9, of the
Constitution states that “the privilege of the Writ
of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended_less when in
Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may
require it.”
To insure framers of the constitution meant what they
meant the sixth amendment states: “In all criminal
prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a
speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the
State and district wherein the crime shall have been
committed … and to be informed of the nature and cause
of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses
against him; [and] to have compulsory process for
obtaining witnesses.”
It would now appear that the US Attorney and all the
presidents men in their infinite wisdom have declared
the U.S. Constitution invalid. Many of us have been
asking, let me rephrase that, "begging" people to wake
up. We are not chicken little hollering the sky is
falling. We are sounding the alarm. My fear,
no one is listening.
The picture included with post contains names of those
I hope did not die for your apathy. rc
