First, slavery is an entirely separate issue. What we are talking about here is whether the President can, when there is an existential threat to the nation, limit individual rights including habeus corpus in the interest of protecting the country. Bush has never employed this power, for instance, to silence his political rivals and critics.
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Dana wrote: > point is... do you think this should be happening? It might have been > upheld in the past but Ronald Reagan subsequently apologized for it on > behaldf of the US. *SLAVERY* was upheld in the past! > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:282294 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
