http://www.harktheherald.com/modules...rder=0&thold=0


Excerpt:
"We have witnessed the president and attorney general of one of the most
secretive administrations in
American history claiming war powers to deny civil liberties protected by
the Bill of Rights. We've seen
the creation, in America, of a detention procedure in which detainees have
had no recourse to lawyers,
no chance to plead their innocence -- people who simply disappear into a
system right out of George Orwell's "1984."

But then, last week, the Supreme Court -- the same conservative court that
civil libertarians had begun to
despair of -- told Mr. Bush in a nearly unanimous ruling that "a state of
war is not a blank check" and that he
did not have the power to imprison American citizens or anyone else
indefinitely, without any ability to challenge
their accusers in a court of law. In other words, he could not suspend the
Bill of Rights."

"Jim" wrote in message
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http://www.harktheherald.com/modules...file=article&s
id=28932&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0


Excerpt:
"We have witnessed the president and attorney general of one of the most
secretive administrations in
American history claiming war powers to deny civil liberties protected by
the Bill of Rights. We've seen
the creation, in America, of a detention procedure in which detainees
have
had no recourse to lawyers,
no chance to plead their innocence -- people who simply disappear into a
system right out of George Orwell's "1984."

But then, last week, the Supreme Court -- the same conservative court
that
civil libertarians had begun to
despair of -- told Mr. Bush in a nearly unanimous ruling that "a state of
war is not a blank check" and that he
did not have the power to imprison American citizens or anyone else
indefinitely, without any ability to challenge
their accusers in a court of law. In other words, he could not suspend
the
Bill of Rights."



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