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I Can’t Let This Go

20th January 2007
by gordo

I wasn’t going to post anything this weekend, because my friend’s computer is difficult for me to work with, and because I don’t have much online time while I’m here in Portland, but I just have to comment on this video of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ testimony. In it, Gonzales says that the Constitution doesn’t guarantee the right of habeas corpus to individual Americans.

That’s the right the right to demand that the government present evidence before locking you up.

Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) attempts to correct him, pointing out that the Constitution explicitly states that this right can’t be taken away, except in the case of an invasion or rebellion. But Attorney General Gonzales stuck by his guns, claiming that this in no way implies that there is a right to habeas corpus. Maybe, he reasoned, the government can’t take this right away because it doesn’t exist in the first place.

This is a man who swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. And this is the man who is charged with ensuring that the rights of the American people are not violated.


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5 Responses to “I Can’t Let This Go”

  1. Stram Says:
    January 20th, 2007 at 6:24 am

    Yeah, how do you like it? Blogging with one hand tied behind your back…one little link with none of them fancy pictures? That’s not what I’m used to on Saturday morning!

    Slacker.

    (By the way Gordo, Alon is doing fine, I just have to read through the encyclopedia Britannica before I can comment)

  2. Clifton Says:
    January 20th, 2007 at 9:38 am

    Gordo,

    This Gonzales misquoted or was misquoted…what he really was saying is that HE Gonzales has no right to habeas corpus and that we should have him locked up…NOW!

  3. Alon Says:
    January 20th, 2007 at 6:08 pm

    Which entries do you have to read in the Britannica, Stram?

  4. Cassandra Says:
    January 20th, 2007 at 6:11 pm

    Like I said, he is the perfect yes-man, rubber-stamp-it guy for this admin. This is way better than having a pardoner like Ford because this guy’s job is to convince everyone that nothing was done wrong in the first place. They were always right!

    Constitution? What Constitution? We don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution!

  5. Stram Says:
    January 21st, 2007 at 10:24 am

    Which?

    Totalization is one of the pathologies that distinguishes radical and non-radical activists the most markedly. Radicals typically pick a single villain—modernity, the patriarchy, government, capitalism—and then proceed to argue that this villain is the source of all trouble in the world.

    Do you know how many times a guy like me has to read that and still not get it?

    I had to look up, “Dominionism”. But your stuff is interesting so keep writing it.

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