Habeas Corpus is Gone

Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list'

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-cia-killlist-idUSTRE79475C20111005

 

MAJIA HERE: IF YOU DON'T THINK THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS THEN YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THAT HABEAS CORPUS HAS BEEN THE CORNERSTONE OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS SINCE THE MAGNA CARTA

 

In 2006 Ralph Nader warned that democracy was under siege by attacks against Habeas Corpus.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0930-21.htm

 

Nader's warning has been ignored and now our democracy is shattered:

 

Nader: "So long as the lawyers and their bar associations in America do not challenge the advancing dictatorial powers of George W. Bush, so long as citizen groups, labor unions and libertarians, conservatives and liberals avoid uniting together, these constitutional crimes against due process, probable cause, habeas corpus, together with torture and indefinite imprisonment at the whim of the Executive branch, will worsen and erode American jurisprudence with serious consequences for both the nation's security and its liberties...."

 

read the entire article at the link above