Abraham Lincoln was the president that holds the record for most freedoms removed by a president during war time.
During the Civil war Lincoln had Citizens arrested and held for the duration of the war with out notifying anyone and with out charging them with any crime. He refused to even say if the people incarcerated were being held. Writs of Habeas Corpus were just ignored. Lincoln refused to abide by both British and American common law won in the Magna Carta. Now that is removing freedom! If the government just thought someone was a Southern spy, that person was incarcerated and held incommunicado until the end of the war. There were no charges brought, no lawyer allowed, no judge or court involved. The federal government would not even admit they were holding the person or allow the person held to talk to anyone. People just disappeared for years.
During World War II all war correspondents were drafted into the military. They were given the rank equal to a 2nd Lieutenant but had no command authority. They could belong to officer's clubs but were forbidden to give orders to anyone. All WWII reports had to be approved by Military Censors. Airing or printing a story on the war that had not been approved by a military censor was punishable by a Military Courts Marshall. Reporters were all drafted into the military in order to circumvent their being subject to civilian law. Failing to get the Military Censors approval before printing or airing a report was punishable by death by firing squad.
Andy Rooney was a reporter assigned to Patton's third Army. He would have liked to have trashed Patton and his Third Army commanders but dared not. Patton and Ike would have had Rooney put to death before a firing squad had he done so.
Americans have always given up lots of freedoms in time of war. We get them back when the war is over.
The only freedom needed is the right to elect leaders. When the war is over we we just elect people who give them back.
Nailed it. dfj is so appallingly ignorant of history it is scary. Seems all dfj can do is spew nonsensical slogans with NO sense of either fact nor context
Oh, yeah? Well, when are we going to let all of the Japanese people out of the internment camps, then? For that matter, when will we free the slaves? When will women get the right to vote?
Face it. Once a personal liberty is infringed upon in this country, we NEVER EVER get it back.