Anyone care to comment about the similiar ways our government is responding today regarding 9/11 relative to how Lincoln responded during the Civil War?
During the Civil War the writ of Habeus Corpus was suspended allowing for people to be held as long as deemed necessary. Look at Davis at the end of the war and he was never charged with anything. Clement Valladingham was thrown out of the country because he was a dissenter then of course you had the Confederate army (traitors?)themselves.
Now after those horrific events of 9/11, you have congress authorizing spying on the internet, easing up of restrictions on wire tapping. Ashcroft holding hundreds of people without charging them and now they are talking about charging an American Taliban as an enemy combatant where the government once it is declared does not have to answer to anyone regarding this person's whereabouts.
Interesting concept?
Regards,
Bill
(Message edited by tamaroa on June 24, 2002)
During the Civil War the writ of Habeus Corpus was suspended allowing for people to be held as long as deemed necessary. Look at Davis at the end of the war and he was never charged with anything. Clement Valladingham was thrown out of the country because he was a dissenter then of course you had the Confederate army (traitors?)themselves.
Now after those horrific events of 9/11, you have congress authorizing spying on the internet, easing up of restrictions on wire tapping. Ashcroft holding hundreds of people without charging them and now they are talking about charging an American Taliban as an enemy combatant where the government once it is declared does not have to answer to anyone regarding this person's whereabouts.
Interesting concept?
Regards,
Bill
(Message edited by tamaroa on June 24, 2002)