Indefinite Detention of American Citizens

[AugustineJurnior]

Abe Lincoln did it. If it's good enough for Abraham Lincoln then it's good enough for me.

Except that misrepresents the whole thing.




It would take a mountain of evidence and reasoning for me to go against Anastaplo, with whom even the greatly contentious Harry V Jaffa had no complaints at all.

 

[AugustineJurnior]

Abe Lincoln did it. If it's good enough for Abraham Lincoln then it's good enough for me.

And when you deny authority to Congress, you have no credibility.

'Finally, on March 3, 1863, nearly two years into the war and twenty months after the special session, Congress passed an act authorizing Lincoln to suspend the writ of habeas corpus."

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• Introduced in the House of Representatives as H.R. 591, A bill to indemnify the President and other persons for suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, and acts done in pursuance thereof by Thaddeus Stevens on December 5, 1862"

INDEMNIFY secure (someone) against legal liability for their actions.

STOP, OKAY

 

[AugustineJurnior]

If locking up people without trial on the pretext of suspicion of terrorism is acceptable then Bush and Cheyney should be in prison.

Look how many US and foreign lives they have taken with their terrorist activities

In a legal court you would be cautioned for saying such a dumb thing, the very legal issue still under proceedings, the defendant being INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY... SO you could not introduce "

" on the pretext of suspicion of terrorism Anyway the House totally agreed with Lincoln and codified it

• Introduced in the House of Representatives as H.R. 591, A bill to indemnify the President and other persons for suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, and acts done in pursuance thereof by Thaddeus Stevens on December 5, 1862

 

[AugustineJurnior]

Ignoring any part of our Constitution puts the whole thing in jeopardy... Which you might recognize if you didn't agree with ignoring some parts of the constitution, like the enumerated powers, which restrict the federal government.

JUST THE OPPOSITE !!!!

Lincoln then presented his famous response to Taney. “Are all the laws but one to go unexecuted, and the Government itself go to pieces lest that one be violated? Even in such a case, would not the official oath be broken if the Government should be overthrown when it was believed that disregarding the single law would tend to preserve it?”

AND CONGRESS FULLY BACKED LINCOLN and not you

• Introduced in the House of Representatives as H.R. 591, A bill to indemnify the President and other persons for suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, and acts done in pursuance thereof by Thaddeus Stevens on December 5, 1862