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To: stockman_scott who wrote (30703)	7/28/2005 3:42:02 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362364

That's not just the Post 'O The Day. That's the Post 'O The Week and the Post 'O The Month. You humble me for posting it here. Thanks. Sioux

To: stockman_scott who wrote (30703)	8/1/2005 7:09:16 AM
From: Rarebird	Respond to of 362364

>>If Al Qaeda manages to slip a nuclear device into a shipping container and it goes off in one of our ports, all bets are off. MARTIAL LAW is a distinct probability, and American Democracy will be a goner.<< You really do live on a "battlefield"already. The US is under de facto internal martial law. In a courthouse in Richmond, Virginia, a government attorney has declared that in the war on terror, the United States is a "battlefield", so "President Bush has the authority to detain enemy combatants indefinitely": washingtonpost.com This was said in a case before a court dealing with the US Supreme Court's previous ruling that people held by the US Federal Government had the legal right to seek habeas corpus in US Federal Court, meaning that the Bush Administration had to show the legal justifications for holding these people in custody. Habeas corpus means to have to present the body. This means that the person accused must appear before a competent US court and a valid justification must be shown for having taken that person into custody. Here, this principle was denied by the US Federal Attorney, who held forward the argument that the President's powers were singular and that he, the President held in his own hands the power to hold all people he calls enemy combatants "indefinitely".