Restore Habeas Corpus - Act Now! Posted by Pile (6198 views) [E-Mail link]





Awhile back, the creatures in Congress thought that it was no big deal to take away our basic rights, such as the right to being told what we're charged with if we're arrested, and not being detained indefinitely.



A new bill has been introduced, the "Habeas Corpus Restoration Act" which promises to restore these basic rights that were taken away. Do your political representatives support this law? You might be surprised.



UPDATE: Thanks for doing your part! It really helped. What? You didn't contact your representative? Well that explains why the measure failed.



By the way, if you think there's no difference between Republicans and Democrats, think again. Every single Democrat supported restoring Habeas Corpus. All but six republicans (Hagel (R-NE) Lugar (R-IN) Smith (R-OR) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (R-PA) Sununu (R-NH)) voted against it. All politicians may be slime, but the Democrats clearly seem to have a little more respect for the Constitution and citizens' rights - Let's NOT FORGET THIS COME ELECTION TIME!









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This week, we have a critical opportunity to restore habeas corpus.



The Habeas Corpus Restoration Act gives us a chance to reverse one of the Bush Administration's many assaults on our civil liberties.



We all want to make America safe from terrorism, but becoming a nation that sanctions the unlawful detention of its own residents -- detaining and jailing them without the chance to appear before a judge -- does not make us safe. Instead, it violates a value that we have held dear for centuries -- safeguarding our individual freedom before arbitrary state action.



Please sign-on below as a citizen co-sponsor to the bipartisan Leahy-Specter-Dodd Habeas Corpus Restoration Act.

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Posted by Chaos Motor on 2007-09-20 14:12:34 I didn't see this until after the vote, but...



How do you not understand that Democrats are just as morally bankrupt, debased, and disinterested in our basic civil rights as Republicans are? They put on a dog-and-pony show so that you are lulled into thinking they are an "opposition party" whose supposed opposition amounts to jack squat.



Wake up Americans! It is not Dems vs Repubs. It is The People vs The Government. Freedom vs Control.



If the Dems weren't just mirrors of Repubs, playing the same cheating game from the other side, Impeachment proceedings would already be underway. Hell, they'd have been finished, and the entire Executive branch replaced years ago.



Disavow parties. Support independence by supporting independents. I still believe in it, might be time for a change

Posted by piss on this fuckers on 2007-09-25 11:54:47 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (Note: the original hand-written text ended on the phrase "the pursuit of property" rather than "the pursuit of Happiness" but the phrase was changed in subsequent copies in part because it was broader. The latter phrase is used today).



That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Name: (change name for anonymous posting) Title: Comments: 1 Article displayed.