"The Boston Tea Party was a direct action against a corporate monopoly that led to the birth of the United States. The raiders of the Tea Party pledged silence for 50 years. One of them, George R. T. Hewes, lived...
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Presidential candidate, Senator Chris Dodd introduced a bill on February 13, 2007 that would restore habeas corpus rights to all detainees in U.S. custody and narrowly define who is an “enemy combatant.”
In case you did not hear, the Attorney General of the United States stated, that a citizen's right to habeas corpus is not protected by the constitution. How can anyone to the right or the left not be sickened by this statement. That is some crazy talk if I have ever heard...
"On the 29th, congress sent Bush the bill, which Associated Press said, "...he was expected to do very soon." Most expected him to sign it over the weekend.So where is it?Sure,
the media spotlight has shifted to...
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"... the plot was real. However, it was not imminent. British officials apologized, two weeks after the fact, for the exaggerated, panic-inducing statements they had made at the time of the arrests. Naturally,...
"White House national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley met with Republican senators yesterday in an effort to reach final agreement on legislation that would govern the military trials of terrorism suspects, but they did not resolve a dispute over whether the captives...
"Retired Navy Rear Adm. John D. Hutson on Monday joined a panel of retired military and naval officers urging that Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, delay any action on the bill under consideration.
The habeas corpus right in question traditionally gives...
"This provision would perpetuate the indefinite detention of hundreds of individuals against whom the government has brought no charges and presented no evidence, without any recourse to justice whatsoever. That is un-American, and it is contrary to American interests. ..."
This is the second in a series of articles examining the Timothy Lynch’s article, Doublespeak and The War on Terrorism. George Orwell, who introduced the concept of doublespeak in his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, depicted a totalitarian state where posters everywhere...
The Senate passed a modified version of the amendment I wrote about last night. (Roll call here.) The modified version (text here (pdf)) still strips detainees of any right to a petition of habeas corpus, but allows...
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