On September 24th
1862 President Abraham Lincoln issued the proclamation suspending the right to
writs of Habeas Corpus nationwide. It could also be argued that this was again
the case after the Attacks on Pearl Harbor. On Feb. 19, 1942, two months after
the attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which gave
the military the power to designate zones in which "any or all persons may
be excluded" for national defense purposes [source: FDR Library]. They were
essentially detained with no charges filed. Following 9/11, President Bush made several attempts with varying
degrees of success to revoke the right of habeas corpus. As well as the
obvious example of denying habeas corpus proceedings to those detained
at Guantanamo Bay, the president attempted, more surreptitiously, to
grant himself the power to be able to revoke this basic right for every
American citizen. This again was issued under the guise
of the National Defense Authorization act of 2007, with the clause to hold any
person indefinitely without charges being brought against the person or the
nature of the charges being told to the detainee.
So what is a writ of Habeas
Corpus? It is a judicially enforceable order issued by a court of law to a
prison official ordering that a prisoner be brought to the court so it can be
determined whether or not that prisoner had been lawfully imprisoned and , if
not, whether he or she should be released from custody. A Habeas Corpus
petition is a petition filed with a court by a person who objects to his own or
another’s detention or imprisonment. The petition must show that the court
ordering the detention or imprisonment made a legal or factual error. The right
of Habeas Corpus is the constitutionally bestowed right of a person to present
evidence before a court that he or she has been wrongly convicted. It happened
then under Lincoln and it’s been happening again in the present day. But it is
rarely ever covered by the mainstream media. So why is this being allowed and
when does it affect your life and liberty?
Brandon Raub
from Virginia was detained and imprisoned for days with absolutely no charges
ever being brought against him. He has been forced to psychological
evaluations. Why was this done? Apparently the authorities who were monitoring his
social media and other forms of communications felt that the things he was
posting to his personal social media account were threatening in nature and
that he posed a risk to himself. First ask yourself this question, why were the
Authorities monitoring a private citizen who has had no prior issues with the
law, in fact Raub served in the Marine Corps and was deployed to both Iraq and
Afghanistan. So what were the things he was saying on his social media site
that was so inflammatory and threatening? Was it the truth about what our
military is doing in those countries, was it an air of concern or disdain for
the ways they control his life and restrict his liberties, could it have been
that his dissent was enough reason to detain him and force an evaluation of his
physiological state?
Another story
that is apparently forgotten by the media is the case against Bradley Manning,
well really it should be said the case that hasn’t been made against Bradley
Manning. Mr. Manning was a soldier in
the United States Army, he has been held for well over 2 ½ years without the
knowledge of charges against him. So why are they doing this? It could be that he
tried to leak information from the military to WikiLeaks. So what is wrong with
releasing this info if would and could benefit mankind and bring to light
crimes against humanity. I applaud Bradley Manning for standing up and trying
to tell the truth, this should inspire more people to take a stand and do what
is right and instead it teaches that you should just be subservient to your government
or else you will pay for it.
So with the ever
increasing police state and the effects of the unconstitutional Patriot Act,
the unfathomable and clearly unconstitutional National Defense Authorization
Act or NDAA, we are facing a country with dwindling civil liberties and
personal security escaping our grasps at alarming speed. We have to take a
stand as concerned people to nullify these laws and measures and to replace our
political leaders who push for these kinds of things. With the passing of the
NDAA it has become dangerous to tell the truth and expose wrongdoings. Because
when the countries only tellers of the truth are imprisoned and tortured,
denied civil liberties and stolen freedom, what do we have left to decipher our
media, where do we turn for the truth who do we look up to and how do we live
with ourselves when TRUTH IS TREASON IN THE EMPIRES OF LIES?
http://www.habeascorpus.net/hcwrit.html
https://www.rutherford.org/constitutional_corner/habeas_corpus/