Habeas Corpse

The craven little toady of the Bush maladministration United States Attorney General, Li'l Abu Gonzales, says that the Constitution does not gurantee the right of habeas corpus to American citizens.

Excerpts from the exchange between Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Jan. 17:

Gonzales: There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away. ...

Specter: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. The Constitution says you can't take it away except in cases of rebellion or invasion. Doesn't that mean you have the right of habeas corpus unless there's an invasion or rebellion?

Gonzales: I meant by that comment, the Constitution doesn't say every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right to habeas. Doesn't say that. It simply says the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspended except...

This is not surprising, I suppose, when you look at the record of this gang of criminals who have spent the past six years wiping their collective ass with the Constitution, but it does give one pause to see them make the claim so blatantly. And we've got two more years of these idiots "leading" us? We are so screwed.

It's great that the Democrats have voted to raise the minimum wage and such, but it seems to me that it should be a high priority now to overturn the Military Commissions Act and the Patriot Act, and return some of our inherent Constitutional rights to us before it's too late. Oops. Maybe it already is.