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"Our sitting attorney general is the living embodiment of that old phrase &amp;quot;the banality of evil.&amp;quot; The smirky twerp of an AG is quietly trying to set back 800 years of of Anglo-Saxon and American legal tradition.\nCheck out this exchange about our constitutional right of habeas corpus, which is an inheritance from the Magna Carta of 1215.\n\nBut as far as Gonzales is concerned, everyone&amp;apos;s been misreading the Constitution since its ratification in 1789:\n\n&amp;quot;There is no expressed grant of habeas in the Constitution; there&amp;apos;s a prohibition against taking it away,&amp;quot; Gonzales said.\n\nGonzales&amp;apos;s remark left Specter, the committee&amp;apos;s ranking Republican, stammering.\n\n&amp;quot;Wait a minute,&amp;quot; Specter interjected. &amp;quot;The Constitution says you can&amp;apos;t take it away except in case of rebellion or invasion. Doesn&amp;apos;t that mean you have the right of habeas corpus unless there&amp;apos;s a rebellion or invasion?&amp;quot;\n\nGonzales continued, &amp;quot;The Constitution doesn&amp;apos;t say every individual in the United States or citizen is hereby granted or assured the right of habeas corpus. It doesn&amp;apos;t say that.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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