habeas corpus

President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus three times during the Civil War: April 27, 1861, again on September 24, 1862, a few days after signing the Emancipation Proclamation, and finally on September 15, 1863 (Lincoln and Habeas Corpus, Craig R. Smith, California State University – Long Beach). Ulysses Grant suspended the writ in 1870-1 to deal with the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina.

What is the writ of habeas corpus? Why do we need to be concerned? Why now?

“The writ (document) of habeas corpus is a legal code stating that a person cannot be arrested and held without first being taken before a judge. The judge will then determine whether such detention complies with the laws of the land,” (U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 9, clause 2, “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”).

When circumstances became unmanageable for Lincoln and Grant with regard to rebellion/insurrection they suspended the writ of habeas corpus. There are circumstances whereby the nation would be unsafe with insurrectionists loose on its landscape. It has been proffered to me by a good friend that we may see CINCO (Comrade-in-Chief Obama) suspend habeas corpus if we the people become any more restless and outspoken about his drive toward socialism. I thought and prayed about this circumstance for quite a while. What if this dismantling of the military, strengthening governmental control, weakening the dollar and growing our debt to astronomical proportions is just the beginning of a totalitarian move in this nation? In order to prevent insurrection and rebellion CINCO (Comrade-in-Chief Obama) would need to collect all the privately owned firearms and detain presumed troublemakers, insurrectionists and rebels. During the American Revolution the most notable insurrectionists were the pastors who stoke the fires of liberty.

What if…