Category: 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
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Video: Arlen Specter Asks Alberto Gonzalez About Habeas Corpus
Wanted to post the video for this as well:
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez: Habeas Corpus Not in Constitution
Don’t read this if you’re eating: Responding to questions from Sen. Arlen Specter at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Jan. 18, Gonzales argued that the Constitution doesn’t explicitly bestow habeas corpus rights; it merely says when the so-called Great Writ can be suspended. “There is no expressed grant of habeas in the Constitution; there’s…
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The Other Martin Luther King, Jr
Every year the media enshrines Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and always conveniently forgets the last several years of his life where he moved from race relations to class structure and poverty. In the early 1960s, when King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South, most major media were his allies. But…