What have they done to my Habeas Corpus?

On September 24^th 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/