To: Captain Kirk
he idea that the party of Eisen-hower or Goldwater would have suspended habeas corpus indefinitely.Didn't President Lincoln, practically the father of the GOP, suspend habaes corpus for a time during the Civil War?
20 posted on
05/20/2007 6:39:33 PM PDT by
Balding_Eagle
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To: Balding_Eagle
“Didn’t President Lincoln, practically the father of the GOP, suspend habaes corpus for a time during the Civil War?”
Lincoln also had a bunch of state legislators arrested in Maryland so they couldn’t vote on something. He did a lot of things not in line with the Constitution. Doesn’t make it right just because history smiles on him.
27 posted on
05/20/2007 6:52:18 PM PDT by
NapkinUser
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To: Balding_Eagle
He sure did, and Washington hung traitors.
39 posted on
05/20/2007 7:24:28 PM PDT by
elhombrelibre
(Al Qaeda knows Iraq's strategic value, yet the Democrats work day and night for our defeat there.)
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