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Habeas Corpus? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Latin speak!
http://www.theinformationparadox.com/ 2008/ 09/ habeas-corpus-we-dont-need-no-st…Posted by BGH In fact we do.Anyone concerned with retaining (and in the case of the United States, 're-obtaining') one of the most fundamental rights afforded by most modern free societies, had better learn what those two words mean.
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Give me a Constitutional law prof any day
http://mojomom.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 09/ give-me-constitutional-law-prof-any-day.h…Sarah Palin sure knows how to deliver a speech, but are we willing to look at the content embedded in her rousing delivery?Palin may be no Dick Cheney in that she's less likely to be a behind-the-scenes puppetmaster than he has been for the past eight years, but Palin does pull McCain toward the dark side in several ways.I focused in on two things Palin said.
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While we're occupied with another mindless distraction - Sarah Palin - the endless war machine cranks inexorably forward
http://takeitpersonally.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 08/ while-were-occupied-with-another…as much as i'd LIKE to believe that the up-coming election matters and that, if barack obama is our presidential choice, things might REALLY change, i can't read news like this without being smacked in the head with the reality that all the levers of unfettered executive power will remain in place,
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Silence Isn’t Golden
http://alterwords.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 08/ 30/ silence-isnt-golden/August 30, 2008 Glenn Greenwald on what didn’t get said at the DNC: During that time [the last eight years], our Government has systematically tortured people using sadistic techniques ordered by the White House; illegally and secretly spied on its own citizens; broken more laws than can be counted
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Habeas corpus returns to Burma?
http://ratchasima.net/ 2008/ 08/ 22/ habeas-corpus-returns-to-burma/It is really impossible to say anything about the new constitution of Burma, which passed through a farcical referendum and into law amid the cyclone chaos this May, without suspending a large amount of disbelief. That the current regime, like its predecessor, has no faith in constitutionalism need not be said.
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First they took away Habeas Corpus...
http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/ first_they_took_away_habeas_corpus...but I didn't speak up because I was not in jail. (with apologies to Pastor Martin Niemoller) Now it seems "mens rea" is at risk in the British legal system. In a case highlighted in the British Journal of Photography an academic at Sheffield University who ran a legitimate business in his spare
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Is this really the kind of country we want to live in?
http://ndnblog.org/ node/ 2691Is this really the kind of country we want to live in? Submitted by Marisa McNee on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 11:32am. detention habeas corpus Human Rights I.C.E Immigration Immigration system Regardless of where you stand on the immigration issue, there ought to be one thing on which we all agree: It is
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Liberty or Security? - Part 3
http://stillanightowl.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 08/ 15/ liberty-or-security-part-3/August 15, 2008 Politics | Tags: Freedom, Ethics, Government, Civil Liberties, Power, Habeas Corpus, War Powers Act, Patriot Act, Legality, Morality, Ethics Legality and Morality in Government, Constitution, Standards | One of the more unfortunate results of writing on a subject such as this is
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Liberty or Security? - Part 2
http://stillanightowl.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 08/ 13/ liberty-or-security-part-2/“If America goes to war, government power will grow enormously — probably with the blessing of the people. History tells us that the state will never surrender all of its new authority.” This statement was penned on October 21, 2001 by J.D.
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In UK, Conservatives Champion Civil Liberty While Labour Squelches It
http://irregulartimes.com/ index.php/ archives/ 2008/ 08/ 12/ in-uk-conservative…A useful reminder to those of us who regularly associate left-wing politics with freedom and right-wing politics with authoritarianism: it ain’t necessarily so. The Labour Party of Gordon Brown has pushed for legislation that would allow the government to detain and hold people without charges for 42 days.
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