Background:A number of months ago, I sent out a mass email regarding the elimination of Habeas Corpus in the United States of America on behalf of ‘National Security’.
Update:
Habeas Corpus - 'hA-bE-&s-'kor-p&s
From Medieval Latin, “you have the body” or “you should have the body”
Habeas Corpus is the right of a citizen to obtain a ‘writ of habeas corpus’ as a protection against illegal imprisonment. This writ allows a citizen to question before a judge whether his/her detention is legal.
Without Habeas Corpus, any American Citizen (you or I) can be arrested and detained in the United States indefinitely without having the opportunity to go before a court of law to determine if (you or I) are illegally imprisoned.
This week Senators Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) have introduced the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2006.
The bill would restore basic legal and human rights for 12 million lawful permanent residents in the United States that were rolled back as a result of the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.)
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200612/120506.html
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Please contact your Senator and House of Representative to voice your support or non-support of this bill.
Senators of the 109th Congress
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
House of Representatives of the 109th Congress
http://www.house.gov/
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The Death of Habeas Corpus
By Keith Olbermann
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15220450/ [MSN Countdown]
Updated: 1:35 p.m. ET Oct 11, 2006
KILLING HABEAS CORPUS - Arlen Specter’s about-face.
by JEFFREY TOOBIN
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/061204fa_fact [New Yorker]
Posted 2006-11-27
