Habeas Corpus R.I.P.

Buck Batard at Bad Attitudes:

Now that the concept of Habeas Corpus in America is lost to the Ages and Executive Power has been created equal in power and scope to that wielded by one of the most hated men in History, I offer here — rescued from the dustbin of history— a short portion of Emma Goldman’s address to the jury delivered by her at her trial after her arrest for violating the now villified Espionage Act (shortly prior to the equally infamous Palmer Raids).

Unless you sit on a “military tribunal”, you may never have the opportunity to hear these words or ones like them spoken in a courtroom in America again. Essential truths are nevertheless timeless and irrefutable.

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