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Habeas Corpus? Never heard of it...
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Sun, 24 Nov 2002 03:50:46 GMT
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31438-2002Nov23.html
Why bother with silly old due process... just lock them away for months or
years and we'll all be a lot safer. "them" in this context being whoever it
is the government has squirreled away for our protection. Not sure who
exactly that *is* since apparently the government doesn't have to TELL anybody.
I'm not a big Molly Ivins fan, but when she's right, she's right!
From the 21 Nov column (which was in today's GR Press, hey, we're a bit
slow) as also seen here:
http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=miv
(note that the link may not be good indefinitely)
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During another time of rampaging fear, when civil liberties were considered
a frivolous luxury, the late, unlamented McCarthy Era, the American Civil
Liberties Union chickened out on some big issues and so an Emergency Civil
Liberties Union had to be created to fight McCarthyism. This ACLU, under
Anthony Romero, is fighting hard, but I think we need a new coalition
organization -- civil libertarians, libertarians and principled
conservatives ... real patriots who believe in the Constitution. The
blowhard right-wingers sometimes put down Barry Goldwater these days as "the
liberals' favorite conservative," and so he was. But in your heart, you know
Goldwater would have had a cow over all this.
Rep. Dick Armey has already announced he will do consulting work with the
ACLU on privacy issues (good on him). Rep. Ron Paul and columnist Bill
Safire are stout on these matters, as are other unlikely suspects such as
Bob Barr of Georgia.
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(Bob Barr? Here she may be understating when she says "unlikely suspects" :-) )
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