The Rant

I recently read a book on Madison and the Bill of Rights. Thom Hartman's news letter had a very well discussed commentary on the Military Commissions Act and Habeas Corpus...or what's left of it. Repeal the Military Commissions Act and Restore the Most American Human Right by Thom Hartmann "The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."-- Winston Churchill The oldest human right defined in the history of English-speaking civilization is the right to challenge governmental power of arrest and detention through the use of habeas corpus laws. Habeas corpus is roughly Latin for "hold the body," and is used in law to mean that a government must either charge a person with a crime and allow them due process, or let them go free. Last autumn the