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Scalia Warns Government Will Violate Civil Rights in War
Breitbart.com ^ | 02/20/2014 | Ken Klukowski

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 Hawaii’s 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 Constitution’s 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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From what we've seen from this administration, I have to agree.
1 posted on 02/23/2014 4:20:19 PM PST by Carbonsteel
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To: Carbonsteel

Which explains the need for perpetual war.


2 posted on 02/23/2014 4:21:39 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Carbonsteel
Never let a crisis go to waste.
3 posted on 02/23/2014 4:22:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If Barack Hussein Obama entertains a thought that he does not verbalize, is it still a lie?)
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To: Carbonsteel

And massive debt is a proven successful way to start wars.

We’re well on our way.


4 posted on 02/23/2014 4:24:39 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If Scalia thinks this will happen only during wartime, he is very naive.


5 posted on 02/23/2014 4:26:39 PM PST by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy follow.)
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To: Savage Beast

But we’re always at war with Eastasia.


6 posted on 02/23/2014 4:30:45 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Carbonsteel

Well . . . duh.


7 posted on 02/23/2014 4:39:14 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: Carbonsteel
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other."-James Madison
8 posted on 02/23/2014 4:42:51 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Carbonsteel

bump


9 posted on 02/23/2014 4:44:57 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: cripplecreek
Hence the Terms

War on Crime

War on Cancer

War on Drugs

War on Poverty

War on Obesity

Make everything the Moral Equivalent of War.

10 posted on 02/23/2014 4:48:42 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: Carbonsteel
Scalia Warns Government Will Violate Civil Rights in 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.

11 posted on 02/23/2014 4:56:15 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Communism kills!!!)
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To: KC_Lion

Look at Venezuela. Political opponents are being classified as terrorists by the government.


12 posted on 02/23/2014 5:02:39 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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Look at Venezuela. Political opponents are being classified as terrorists by the government.

A Night of Long Knives if you will?

13 posted on 02/23/2014 5:05:05 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: Carbonsteel

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.


14 posted on 02/23/2014 5:07:08 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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To: KC_Lion

Maduro supporters are now marching in LA.

http://twitchy.com/2014/02/23/l-a-marchers-backing-maduro-asked-to-take-support-to-venezuela-pics/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter

I say we sent Miguel Cabrerra and some of the other Venezuelan baseball players to LA for some batting practice.


15 posted on 02/23/2014 5:07:15 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek
OH WOW!

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.

16 posted on 02/23/2014 5:11:42 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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17 posted on 02/23/2014 5:11:52 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: KC_Lion

As I understand it, Piers Morgan is planning to join them.


18 posted on 02/23/2014 5:13:50 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek
Sarah Palin and I will get back to you on that.


19 posted on 02/23/2014 5:16:34 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

“War on Poverty’’. What does that mean, you shoot poor people?


20 posted on 02/23/2014 5:18:04 PM PST by jmacusa ("Chasing God out of the classroom didn't usher in The Age of Reason''.)
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