National Emergency?

2003-08-21 Thread Harmon Seaver
So how much of the Constitution gets shredded by Bush's declaration of a national emergency right after 9/11, and how long can he maintain that. I mean, I realize the the Constitution/bill of rights is pretty much gone anyway, but ... -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http

RE: National Emergency?

2003-08-21 Thread Vincent Penquerc'h
So how much of the Constitution gets shredded by Bush's declaration of a national emergency right after 9/11, and how long can he maintain that. I mean, I realize the the Constitution/bill of rights is pretty much gone anyway, but ... http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/1622.html

Re: National Emergency?

2003-08-21 Thread Tim May
On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 07:33 AM, Eric Murray wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:17:35AM -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: So how much of the Constitution gets shredded by Bush's declaration of a national emergency right after 9/11, and how long can he maintain that. I mean, I realize

Re: National Emergency?

2003-08-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:33 AM 8/21/03 -0700, Eric Murray wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:17:35AM -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: So how much of the Constitution gets shredded by Bush's declaration of a national emergency right after 9/11, and how long can he maintain that. I mean, I realize the the Constitution

National Emergency?

2003-08-21 Thread Harmon Seaver
So how much of the Constitution gets shredded by Bush's declaration of a national emergency right after 9/11, and how long can he maintain that. I mean, I realize the the Constitution/bill of rights is pretty much gone anyway, but ... -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http

RE: National Emergency?

2003-08-21 Thread Vincent Penquerc'h
So how much of the Constitution gets shredded by Bush's declaration of a national emergency right after 9/11, and how long can he maintain that. I mean, I realize the the Constitution/bill of rights is pretty much gone anyway, but ... http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/1622.html

Re: National Emergency?

2003-08-21 Thread Duncan Frissell
shredded by Bush's declaration of a national emergency right after 9/11, and how long can he maintain that. I mean, I realize the the Constitution/bill of rights is pretty much gone anyway, but ... -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com

RE: National Emergency?

2003-08-21 Thread Vincent Penquerc'h
Funny, I've never heard or read anything about them doing this. An interesting bit in http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/1541.html is that the US president can perform an introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities without Congress declaring war, if a national emergency

Re: National Emergency?

2003-08-21 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:02:19PM +0100, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote: So how much of the Constitution gets shredded by Bush's declaration of a national emergency right after 9/11, and how long can he maintain that. I mean, I realize the the Constitution/bill of rights is pretty

Lists of those to be arrested in a state of national emergency

2001-09-15 Thread Tim May
of those who were to be arrested by the FBI in the event that a national emergency was declared. As it happened, Oppenheimer was _not_ arrested, nor placed in concentration camps the way most Japanese- and (some) German-ancestry Americans were. (They actually showed the papers authorizing the arrest