The Smug Baldy Speaks » The Murder of Habeus Corpus http://www.smugbaldy.com It's hard to think when you're not used to it. Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:25:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 2008 paulus@smugbaldy.com (The Smug Baldy) paulus@smugbaldy.com (The Smug Baldy) Society & Culture 1440 Science,Skepticism,Culture,Politics,Humor,Psychics The Smug Baldy Speaks This is the podcast for those of you who who like their commentary to be barely entertaining, and your host to be only marginally informative. At least he has positive self regard, and a handy robot overlord as a segment announcer. The Smug Baldy The Smug Baldy paulus@smugbaldy.com No no http://www.smugbaldy.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/smugbaldy_speaks_image_small.png The Smug Baldy Speaks http://www.smugbaldy.com 144 144 The Murder of Habeus Corpus http://www.smugbaldy.com/2006/10/11/the-murder-of-habeus-corpus/ http://www.smugbaldy.com/2006/10/11/the-murder-of-habeus-corpus/#comments Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:52:28 +0000 Smug Baldy http://www.smugbaldy.com/?p=24 Just in case you missed Keith Olbermann’s special comment on the Murder Of Habeus Corpus, here is is on YouTube. One thing that should make us happy is that we still have one right left in the Bill of Rights. OK – Bill of Right.

This part is priceless:

“Getting the Military Commissions Act to the president so he could immediately mull it over for two weeks was so important that some members of Congress didn’t even read the bill before voting on it, thus some of the bills minutiae escaped scrutiny. One bit of trivia that caught our eye was the elimination of Habeus Corpus, which apparently used to be the right of anyone who was tossed in prison to appear in court and say [sic], ‘Hey, why am I in prison’?”

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