Posted on 02/23/2014 4:20:19 PM PST by Carbonsteel
At some point when America is at war, terrible violations of basic constitutional freedoms will occur. So says Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Speaking at the University of Hawaiis law school on Feb. 3, Scalia talked about World War II, where American citizens who happened to be of Japanese descent were placed in internment camps in the 1940s. This government action was taken to court and ultimately was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Korematsu v. U.S.
Korematsu is one of the most infamous cases in American history. It was an unmitigated betrayal of the Constitutions guarantee that no one can be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. How could such a thing ever happen in America? The answer, according to Scalia, is found in an ancient Latin phrase, inter arma enim silent leges.
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Which explains the need for perpetual war.
And massive debt is a proven successful way to start wars.
We’re well on our way.
If Scalia thinks this will happen only during wartime, he is very naive.
But we’re always at war with Eastasia.
Well . . . duh.
bump
War on Crime
War on Cancer
War on Drugs
War on Poverty
War on Obesity
Make everything the Moral Equivalent of War.
Communists always do. That's why their Nazi toadies are trying so hard right now to get our guns away from us. It has absolutely nothing to do with Sandy Hook or anywhere else. It's about disarming the population so they can set up their communist government. Once freedom is lost, a very, very high price must be paid to get it back.
Look at Venezuela. Political opponents are being classified as terrorists by the government.
A Night of Long Knives if you will?
When Italy declared war on US in WW2, some local Italian American Society leaders [American citizens] were placed under house arrest for couple of years until Mussolini fell from power. Italian language newspapers were outlawed and all short-wave radios belonging to them were confiscated. But they smuggled the newspapers in from Brooklyn anyway to the arrestees.
Maduro supporters are now marching in LA.
I say we sent Miguel Cabrerra and some of the other Venezuelan baseball players to LA for some batting practice.
I am honestly kind of shocked, though I know I shouldn't be, we used to have an American Bund Society.
These stupid people never learn. At least the Soviet in Invasion of Hungary in '56 pulled the whig off the Western Marxists.
But those people are living in a fantasy world. Malaria would have people marching for it if you put a Che shirt on it.
As I understand it, Piers Morgan is planning to join them.
“War on Poverty’’. What does that mean, you shoot poor people?
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