zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 25 2006 | video, habeas corpus, torture, military commissons act
click to playIf the only thing barring the sovereign from denaturalizing any citizing and reconstituing them as an enemy combatant is the goodness of his will, then it can only mean that we are all potentially nothing other than a living body that can be killed with impunity--and thus the end of democracy itself.
- zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 06 2006 | habeas corpus, military commissons act, sovereignty, terrorism, exception
i apologize for the dead link to the goverment page on the senate decision. wikipedia to the rescue...
Welcome to the State of Exception. The suspension of habeas corpus is a fundamental tactic to detach criminality from any reference to anything actual. Fact and right, for prisoners of the war on terrorism, have been indefinitely suspended. Defendents have neither access to the evidence against them nor, upon conviction, the right to a retrial. With the concept of precedent now annulled from law, the state of seige becomes time itself.
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