"Habeas corpus (literally “produce the body”) is a legal proceeding ..."

[rodeodance]

By BOB HERBERT

http://wealthyfrenchman.blogspot.com/

......Habeas corpus (literally “produce the body”) is a legal proceeding that allows one to challenge his or her detention in a court of law. It is the most significant safeguard against arbitrary imprisonment. Someone deprived of this right — which is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and has been recognized by various societies all the way back to the Middle Ages — can be locked up, whether innocent or guilty of any offense, and never heard from again.

I can’t believe that most Americans think this is all right.

“This is recognized as a broad common-law and constitutional right,” said Bill Goodman, the legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, which has been fighting to secure basic legal protections for prisoners in American custody at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

At a minimum, said Mr. Goodman, “A person has a right to know what crime he’s being charged with. And a court can demand that the government produce evidence indicating that there is a reason to hold that person.”.......

[jimshoes]

1. I can't even believe this

proposition is being presented as a viable model. It's outrageous on its face and goes against everything America and civilized nations in general stand for. What the hell has America come to? Do people not see this is wrong.

[indepat]

4. Almost everything this administration has done from day-one is outrageous

on its face and goes against everything America and most civilized nations stand for.

[rock]

2. Yes, it's the body of the case

You can see without it, the government would be able to detain (imprison) you on a whim. Sorta like what's bush* is doing.

[man4allcats]

3. "I can’t believe that most Americans think this is all right."

Such is the fate of a country whose system of education is in decline.

"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased." - Charles Dickens

[muesa]

5. Bushies are Un-American, Fifth Column, Subversives

And the people who go along with them are fellow travelers and popular fronters.