Reply #115: OK, I've walked away and counted to ten, about a thousand times... [View All]

[Greyhound]

What is it that you don't understand about the consequences of removing habeas corpus? This is the very foundation, the most fundamental principle, of our entire justice system, without it we have a full-fledged, official oligarchy, supported by the most awesome military on the planet.

This is far more important than elections, politics, or party. "But wait", you say, "it would be unconstitutional and the SCOTUS will strike it down." That may have been true in the past, but thanks to our leaders and their bone dry powder, we can no longer count on enough justices to do what is right in spite of their political leanings, IOW, no more Powell or O'Connor types to moderate the conservative leaning of the Court.

Do you really want to put the future of this country, possibly for a hundred or more years (think of all our present day problems that started with the Courts of the 1830's), in the hands of the far-right, neo-conservative, corporatists that are now a clear majority?