RE: Habeas corpus is no longer off the American table! Thats big

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From: Pamela's Protest
Date: Jun 14, 2008 8:02 AM


Habeas corpus is no longer off the American table! Thats big
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From: Pan Man
Date: Jun 14, 2008 3:15 AM


The American in the video below makes some good points.


You can go to usa180. org/onevoice for more helpful info.





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From: ♥ { * パリア犬 * } ♥ pariah
Date: Jun 13, 2008 11:14 PM


~Pariah says: {take a look into this ....see if you can find a way to contribute beyond the internet because only est. 30- 40 % of people have internet and so the majority of US citizens do not know what is really going on in the "news"...just take a look see if you can help somehow. I dont claim to know of everything this man does via his organization, but I am spreading the word because he seems so driven and sincere.....and has for quite awhile now}


_balls to the walls.....

Ron Paul introduces bill to restore Habeas Corpus

New Bill to Repeal Military Commissions Act in House

JBS
Tuesday October 23, 2007

Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) recently introduced a bill that would restore the Constitution's system of checks and balances, as envisioned by our Founding Fathers. Titled the American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 (H.R. 3835), the bill would restore habeas corpus by repealing the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

The following is an excerpt from the American Freedom Agenda Act:
(a) The Military Commissions Act of 2006 is hereby repealed.
(b) The President is authorized to establish military commissions for the trial of war crimes only in places of active hostilities against the United States where an immediate trial is necessary to preserve fresh evidence or to prevent local anarchy.

(c) The President is prohibited from detaining any individual indefinitely as an unlawful enemy combatant absent proof by substantial evidence that the individual has directly engaged in active hostilities against the United States, provided that no United States citizen shall be detained as an unlawful enemy combatant.

(d) Any individual detained as an enemy combatant by the United States shall be entitled to petition for a writ of habeas corpus under section 2241 of title 28, United States Code.

The American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 has been referred to the Committee on the Judiciary as well as the Committees on Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence.

RE: RE: Senate moves to restore habeas corpus

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From: FREEDOM
Date: Jun 8, 2007 12:50 PM


RE: Senate moves to restore habeas corpus

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From: Denise
Date: Jun 8, 2007 9:39 AM


Source: Reuters - By Jane Sutton

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Guantanamo prisoners and other foreigners got a step closer to regaining the right to challenge their detention in the U.S. courts in a bill approved in a U.S. Senate committee on Thursday.

The Judiciary Committee voted 11-8 to send the proposal to the full Senate for debate, with Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania the lone Republican joining the Democratic majority.
Congress last year revoked the rights of foreign terrorism suspects labeled "enemy combatants" to challenge their detention by the United States. The Bush administration said it was necessary to prevent them from attacking Americans if freed.

The move affected about 380 suspected al Qaeda and Taliban captives held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba. It could also affect 12 million legal residents of the United States who are not U.S. citizens, said the committee chairman, Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont.

"I hope the Senate will reconsider the historic error in judgment," Leahy said.

The proposal would restore the right of habeas corpus, Latin for "have the body," which has been the foundation of Anglo-American justice. It prevents the government from locking people up without review by a court.

Leahy said the bill removing that right violated the U.S. constitution, ignored centuries of legal practice and conflicted with U.S. calls for other nations to respect human rights.
"I implore those who supported this change to think about whether eliminating habeas truly makes America safer in the world, and whether it comports with the values, liberties ad legal traditions we hold most dear," he said.

"It makes us less safe."

MILITARY TRIBUNALS

The removal of habeas rights was part of the Military Commissions Act, which also created new military tribunals to try the Guantanamo prisoners on war crimes charges. Congress was led by Republicans when it was rushed through, shortly before elections that put Democrats in control.
There was no opposition expressed at Thursday's committee meeting. But aides said that should not be construed as a sign of support from several Republicans who missed the meeting to take part in an important debate on immigration reform.

The Military Commissions Act was criticized on Monday when judges in the Guantanamo tribunals dropped all war crimes charges against the only two prisoners facing trial.

The judges said they lacked jurisdiction because the defendants had been classified as "enemy combatants" rather than "unlawful enemy combatants," as required by the Military Commissions Act.

The American Civil Liberties Union called the move to restore habeas corpus a good first step and urged Congress to go further and scrap the military tribunals.

"Guantanamo has been one illegal trial scheme after another," said Christopher Anders, legislative counsel for the rights group. "After more than five years of people wasting away without being charged and tried, it's time to convict the guilty and send the innocent to countries that don't torture. The habeas bill is a good first step."