Why is Halliburton Building Internment/Detention Camps?

by Sheila Musaji

On January 24, 2006 it was announced [1] that a subsidiary of Halliburton KBR was awarded a $385 million contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention centers in the U.S.  These centers might be used for immigration, or for disaster relief, or vaguely “... to support the rapid development of new programs.”

As early as September of 2002, John Ashcroft discussed internment of even American citizens who were deemed “enemy combatants” [2a] and Peter Kirsanow of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission said that he “could foresee a scenario in which the public would demand internment camps for Arab Americans if Arab terrorists strike again in this country.”  If there’s a future terrorist attack in America ‘‘and they come from the same ethnic group that attacked the World Trade Center, you can forget about civil rights.” [2b]

“Almost certainly this is preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters,” says Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst who in 1971 released the Pentagon Papers, the U.S. military’s account of its activities in Vietnam. “They’ve already done this on a smaller scale, with the ‘special registration’ detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo.” [3]

Now we are beginning to see this mentioned by a number of sources [4] to [10] but it is still not front page news, although it is not only Muslims and Arabs who are concerned about what sort of emergency might require detention centers, [11] and what are these mysterious “new programs”? [12] and [13].

I believe that all Americans should be very concerned.  It might be “someone else” they come for first, but if this is the direction our nation is going, who knows where it will end.

Last year I reported the following:

Through the Looking Glass: Christian Clergyman Calls for Internment Camps for Muslims?

Sheila Musaji

In a recent article on the MichNews.com website, Evangelical Pastor J. Grant Swank has outdone himself.  Here are some of the higlights from the article entitled Internment Camps for Muslims.

Now with this being reality, itӒs time to erect the internment camps worldwide.    Put Muslims into those camps. There is no safety for the planet unless we lock up every potential killer. Every Muslim is just that. The Koran states that deity has commanded every non-Muslim be slaughtered by Muslims. That makes every Muslim a potential warrior on the loose.    ... Therefore, for America for example to tolerate the Council on America-Islamic Relations (sic) ((CAIR) organization, satellite offices, and web site, is to invite killers into our back and front yards. This has to stop. It can only stop when all Muslims are put inside gates and behind fences, when hell-sponsored public relations efforts such as CAIR are closed down completely, and when Congress sees to it that this World War III is won by the non-Muslims.    There is no other answer.  ...  We are faced with idiotic, insane cultish killers who belong to no religion recognized by world religions researchers. Instead, non-Muslims are confronted by members of a persistent murdering cult.    Civilized nations immediately close down killing cults. America does and has. Therefore, its time to do that now.    Put Muslims in internment camps. Shut them out and off.Ҕ

Lets look at some of the points made by Pastor Swank.

... “The entire planet is under siege by Muslim global murderers”  ...  ғThere is no safety for the planet unless we lock up every potential killer.  This sounds like the plot outline for the movie Minority Report in which in the future criminals are caught before they commit a crime.  The problem is that just as in the film such brilliant plans can go terribly wrong.

ԓEvery Muslim is a potential killer.  Therefore, to ԓtolerate Muslim organizations in the U.S. is ԓto invite killers into our back and front yards.  My children would be interested in this theory, since they are still expressing discontent that I didn’t allow them to watch Road Runner cartoons when they were small because they were too violent.  Perhaps it was my repressed “killer” instinct causing me to overcompensate.

ԓWe are faced with idiotic, insane cultish killers who belong to no religion recognized by world religions researchers.  The religion of Islam is not recognized by ԓworld religious researchers?  I wonder who are these researchers and which religions do they recognize.  This casually dismissed one-fifth of the entire population of this planet as not belonging to a religion at all.  The definition of a ԓcult must have become very loose indeed.

What does Pastor Swank think we need to do to stop the Muslim hordes?  Of course, ԓIt can only stop when all Muslims are put inside gates and behind fences. 

All of this would seem ludicrous and not even worth mentioning if it were not for the fact that this is not just the mental aberration of one lone lunatic, but the subject has been seriously discussed by more seemingly mainstream individuals.

Over the past few years there has been an escalation of the thought process that has led to this logical but disturbing conclusion.  First there were discussions about the possibility that internment of some American ethnic groups might not be a bad thing in all circumstances.  Then we had the use of terminology that confused the distinction between the religion of Islam and the criminal acts of some extremists.  And now we come to the point of calling for the internment of all Muslim Americans.

A member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission has been quoted as saying that he could envision a scenario in which public opinion would demand internment of Arabs. (But, even this is minor compared to the Arizona Supreme Court decision that the letter to the editor published in an Arizona paper promoting the idea of killing Muslims was protected under the first amendment right to free speech.  And, we are still waiting to see how Denmark handles the case of the Danish radio station owner who encouraged the killing of Muslims to combat terrorism.)

A 2004 Cornell University poll showed that:  about 27 percent of respondents said that all Muslim Americans should be required to register their location with the federal government;  26 percent said they think that mosques should be closely monitored by U.S. law enforcement agencies; 29 percent agreed that undercover law enforcement agents should infiltrate Muslim civic and volunteer organizations, in order to keep tabs on their activities and fund raising;  22 percent said the federal government should profile citizens as potential threats based on the fact that they are Muslim or have Middle Eastern heritage;  44 percent said they believe that some curtailment of civil liberties is necessary for Muslim Americans.

There have been many articles by Japanese-Americans pointing to similarities between the post 9/11 view of Muslims and Arabs to the pre-internment climate towards Japanese Americans.

Michelle Malkin has written a book In Defense of Internment:  “The Case for ԑRacial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror” which has been at the least controversial.  See the reviews on Amazon.com. This book was, of course, defended by Daniel Pipes.

All of these individuals seem to believe that in times of war security comes before civil rights.  I would question that conclusion.

They need to read The Constitution of the U.S. In fact, in light of many of the injustices taking place in America today, I wish everyone was required to read the constitution, and perhaps even to pass a test proving that they understand it before they could vote.

Irfan Khwaja has written an excellent article ғ Why Daniel Pipes Is Wrong in which he makes many points pertinent to this entire discussion of internment:

ԓThe fundamental problem with Pipes position is the supposedly ғunarguable premise he borrows from Malkin. Quoting her, he writes: ԓin time of war, the survival of the nation comes first.ђ From there, [Malkin] draws the corollary that Civil liberties are not sacrosanct.ђ Malkin is right that the survival of the nation is an imperative, but since ԓthe nation is defined by the Constitution, ԓits survival is meaningless apart from that fact. A constitution is to a nation what a brain is to a person: take the brain out, and you kill the person; take large enough chunks of the brain out, and it may as well not be there. The Fourth Amendment, if youԒll pardon the metaphor, is too large a chunk of the national brain to be thrown out on a whim. In that sense, it is sacrosanct.Ӕ

A related problem is PipesӒs cavalier adoption of Malkins thesis about Japanese internment. There is first his rather condescending minimization of the effects of internment, as in his reference to its ғsupposed horrors. Well, the issue isnԒt horrorӔ (a term few writers besides Pipes have used) but injustice, and the injustice wasnt ғsupposed, but perfectly real. I suppose there are worse things in the world than expropriation, forced re-location, imprisonment, and forced labor (with conscription added for good measure), but these things strike me as bad enough to arouse a modicum of indignation.Ԕ

There is also his suggestion that opposition to internment is nothing more than a hobbyhorse of ӓthe victimization lobby, a term that not only suggests that Japanese Americans werenԒt victimized, but suggests that those opposing internment have nothing worthwhile to say in criticism of it. Both claims are pretty obviously false.

I cannot imagine that comparable statements could be made about any other religious or ethnic group in the United States of America—I can hardly imagine the public furore! However while public sensibilities have been changed enough that such suggestions are acceptable, I would like to put in my two-cents worth. Let’s put all the internment enthusiasts in internment camps.

UPDATE 12/8/2011

Kurt Nimmo and Alex Jones have just published an expose Exclusive:// Government Activating FEMA Camps Across U.S.  They say Infowars.com has received a document originating from Halliburton subsidiary KBR that provides details on a push to outfit FEMA and U.S. Army camps around the United States. Entitled “Project Overview and Anticipated Project Requirements,” the document describes services KBR is looking to farm out to subcontractors. The document was passed on to us by a state government employee who wishes to remain anonymous for obvious reasons.  They have links to documents and screen saves in case they disappear. 

This comes within a week of the Senate vote that would allow military indefinite detention for American citizens.  We already know that our law enforcement agencies and personnel have been fed a steady diet of anti-Muslim propaganda.  We know that many of our elected representatives have expressed anti-Muslim views including the possibility that Muslims are not protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution.  All of this makes these developments particularly alarming as they might relate to the American Muslim community. 

John W. Whitehead, a Constitutional Attorney wrote about this alarming development in an article America the Battlefield: The End of the Rule of Law.  Read the whole article, but here are a few passages

Taken collectively, these provisions re-orient our legal landscape in such a way as to ensure that martial law, rather than the rule of law—our U.S. Constitution, becomes the map by which we navigate life in the United States. In short, this defense bill not only decimates the due process of law and habeas corpus for anyone perceived to be an enemy of the United States, but it radically expands the definition of who may be considered the legitimate target of military action. If signed into law by President Obama, this bill will not only ensure that we remain in a perpetual state of war—with this being a war against the American people—but it will also institute de facto martial law in the United States. Although the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act placed strong restrictions on how and when the U.S. military may be used on American soil, the language of this bill supersedes Posse Comitatus, empowering the president to unilaterally impose martial law at any time of his choosing. This legislation signals the end of the rule of law in America.

...  The fact that our elected representatives—public servants entrusted with acting in our best interests—are putting forth legislation which endangers the right to due process, a founding principle of this nation, is alarming, but perhaps not all that surprising. We have witnessed the pieces being put into place for years now with little outcry from the American people.  The perpetual war on terror has provided those in power with the perfect means by which to ratchet up the fear, all the while slowly eroding our freedoms.

I have yet to see any credible rationale for the presence of these martial law provisions in the defense bill. After all, existing laws and government procedures already address all contingencies for handling any actual enemies of the United States. Even the courts have helped to reinforce these ongoing breaches, ruling that it’s a prerogative of the president, not the judiciary, to determine how enemies of the United States will be treated in custody and what type of trial they will receive, if any. Moreover, we have not seen a terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11. Yet with America pulling out of Iraq at the end of the year, and slowly ratcheting down its commitment to Afghanistan, the military industrial complex that feeds off of war is increasingly making its presence felt on American soil.

Here is the text of an article I wrote some time ago on the loss of our habeas corpus rights.  This latest development is part of this same insidious process of eroding the rights enshrined in the Constitution of the United States:

Habeas Corpus, one of the foundations of all our rights as citizens of the United States has been for all practical purposes suspended by our government.  What is startling is how few Americans are speaking out against this.  Perhaps that is because our educational system is so poor that most students graduating from high school don’t even have a firm grasp of our Constitution and the principles upon which it is based.  And, those who accept this as something the government “needs to do” to protect us from the threat of “terrorism” should have taken Ben Franklin’s warning to heart:

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Habeas Corpus is to be found in article 1, section 9 of the U.S. Constitution - “habeas corpus n. Law A writ issued to bring a party before a court to prevent unlawful restraint. [

The basic premise behind habeas corpus is that you cannot be held against your will without just cause. To put it another way, you cannot be jailed if there are no charges against you. If you are being held, and you demand it, the courts must issue a writ of habeas corpus, which forces those holding you to answer as to why. If there is no good or compelling reason, the court must set you free. It is important to note that of all the civil liberties we take for granted today as a part of the Bill of Rights, the importance of habeas corpus is illustrated by the fact that it was the sole liberty thought important enough to be included in the original text of the Constitution."

from U.S. Constitution glossary

“The establishment of the writ of habeas corpus ... are perhaps greater securities to liberty and republicanism than any it [the Constitution] contains. ...[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. ...  “‘To bereave a man of life,’ says he, ‘or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore A MORE DANGEROUS ENGINE of arbitrary government.’‘’ [Capitals all Hamilton’s from the original.]  Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 84

“...freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.” - Thomas Jefferson

“The establishment of the writ of habeas corpus ... are perhaps greater securities to liberty and republicanism than any it [the Constitution] contains. ...The practices of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.  Alexander Hamilton

Possibly the best statement that has been made in defense of habeas corpus is the following by Keith Olberman.  He sums up the dangers of our current situation beautifully.  TEXT OF KEITH OLBERMAN’S DISCUSSION OF THE LOSS OF HABEAS CORPUS

And lastly, as promised, a Special Comment tonight on the signing of the Military Commissions Act and the loss of Habeas Corpus.

We have lived as if in a trance. We have lived… as people in fear.  And now—our rights and our freedoms in peril—we slowly awake to learn that we have been afraid… of the wrong thing.

Therefore, tonight, have we truly become, the inheritors of our American legacy. For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:  And lastly, as promised, a Special Comment tonight on the signing of the Military Commissions Act and the loss of Habeas Corpus.

Therefore, tonight, have we truly become, the inheritors of our American legacy.  For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:

- A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.
- We have been here before—and we have been here before led here—by men better and wiser and nobler than George W. Bush.
- We have been here when President John Adams insisted that the Alien and Sedition Acts were necessary to save American lives—only to watch him use those Acts to jail newspaper editors.
- American newspaper editors, in American jails, for things they wrote, about America.
- We have been here, when President Woodrow Wilson insisted that the Espionage Act was necessary to save American lives—only to watch him use that Act to prosecute 2,000 Americans, especially those he disparaged as “Hyphenated Americans,” most of whom were guilty only of advocating peace in a time of war.
- American public speakers, in American jails, for things they said, about America.
- And we have been here when President Franklin D. Roosevelt insisted that Executive Order 9-0-6-6 was necessary to save American lives—only to watch him use that Order to imprison and pauperize 110-thousand Americans…While his man-in-charge… General DeWitt, told Congress: “It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen—he is still a Japanese.”  American citizens, in American camps, for something they neither wrote nor said nor did—but for the choices they or their ancestors had made, about coming to America.

Each of these actions was undertaken for the most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons. And each, was a betrayal of that for which the President who advocated them, claimed to be fighting.

Adams and his party were swept from office, and the Alien and Sedition Acts erased.  Many of the very people Wilson silenced, survived him, and…
...one of them even ran to succeed him, and got 900-thousand votes… though his Presidential campaign was conducted entirely… from his jail cell.  And Roosevelt’s internment of the Japanese was not merely the worst blight on his record, but it would necessitate a formal apology from the government of the United States, to the citizens of the United States, whose lives it ruined.

The most vital… the most urgent… the most inescapable of reasons.  In times of fright, we have been, only human.  We have let Roosevelt’s “fear of fear itself” overtake us.  We have listened to the little voice inside that has said “the wolf is at the door; this will be temporary; this will be precise; this too shall pass.”  We have accepted, that the only way to stop the terrorists, is to let the government become just a little bit like the terrorists.  Just the way we once accepted that the only way to stop the Soviets, was to let the government become just a little bit like the Soviets.  Or substitute… the Japanese.  Or the Germans.  Or the Socialists.  Or the Anarchists.  Or the Immigrants.  Or the British.  Or the Aliens.

The most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.  And, always, always… wrong.

“With the distance of history, the questions will be narrowed and few: Did this generation of Americans take the threat seriously, and did we do what it takes to defeat that threat?”  Wise words.  And ironic ones, Mr. Bush.  Your own, of course, yesterday, in signing the Military Commissions Act.  You spoke so much more than you know, Sir.  Sadly—of course—the distance of history will recognize that the threat this generation of Americans needed to take seriously… was you.

We have a long and painful history of ignoring the prophecy attributed to Benjamin Franklin that “those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

But even within this history, we have not before codified, the poisoning of Habeas Corpus, that wellspring of protection from which all essential liberties flow. 
You, sir, have now befouled that spring.  You, sir, have now given us chaos and called it order.  You, sir, have now imposed subjugation and called it freedom.
For the most vital… the most urgent… the most inescapable of reasons.  And—again, Mr. Bush—all of them, wrong.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who has said it is unacceptable to compare anything this country has ever done, to anything the terrorists have ever done.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who has insisted again that “the United States does not torture. It’s against our laws and it’s against our values” and who has said it with a straight face while the pictures from Abu Ghraib Prison and the stories of Waterboarding figuratively fade in and out, around him.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who may now, if he so decides, declare not merely any non-American citizens “Unlawful Enemy Combatants” and ship them somewhere—anywhere—but may now, if he so decides, declare you an “Unlawful Enemy Combatant” and ship you somewhere - anywhere.

And if you think this, hyperbole or hysteria… ask the newspaper editors when John Adams was President, or the pacifists when Woodrow Wilson was President, or the Japanese at Manzanar when Franklin Roosevelt was President.

And if you somehow think Habeas Corpus has not been suspended for American citizens but only for everybody else, ask yourself this: If you are pulled off the street tomorrow, and they call you an alien or an undocumented immigrant or an “unlawful enemy combatant”—exactly how are you going to convince them to give you a court hearing to prove you are not? Do you think this Attorney General is going to help you?

This President now has his blank check.  He lied to get it.  He lied as he received it.  Is there any reason to even hope, he has not lied about how he intends to use it, nor who he intends to use it against?

“These military commissions will provide a fair trial,” you told us yesterday, Mr. Bush. “In which the accused are presumed innocent, have access to an attorney, and can hear all the evidence against them.”

‘Presumed innocent,’ Mr. Bush?  The very piece of paper you signed as you said that, allows for the detainees to be abused up to the point just before they sustain “serious mental and physical trauma” in the hope of getting them to incriminate themselves, and may no longer even invoke The Geneva Conventions in their own defense.

‘Access to an attorney,’ Mr. Bush?  Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift said on this program, Sir, and to the Supreme Court, that he was only granted access to his detainee defendant, on the promise that the detainee would plead guilty.

‘Hearing all the evidence,’ Mr. Bush?  The Military Commissions act specifically permits the introduction of classified evidence not made available to the defense.

Your words are lies, Sir.  They are lies, that imperil us all.  “One of the terrorists believed to have planned the 9/11 attacks,” ...you told us yesterday… “said he hoped the attacks would be the beginning of the end of America.”  That terrorist, sir, could only hope.  Not his actions, nor the actions of a ceaseless line of terrorists (real or imagined), could measure up to what you have wrought.

Habeas Corpus? Gone.  The Geneva Conventions? Optional.  The Moral Force we shined outwards to the world as an eternal beacon, and inwards at ourselves as an eternal protection? Snuffed out.  These things you have done, Mr. Bush… they would be “the beginning of the end of America.”

And did it even occur to you once sir—somewhere in amidst those eight separate, gruesome, intentional, terroristic invocations of the horrors of 9/11—that with only a little further shift in this world we now know—just a touch more repudiation of all of that for which our patriots died—-

Did it ever occur to you once, that in just 27 months and two days from now when you leave office, some irresponsible future President and a “competent tribunal” of lackeys would be entitled, by the actions of your own hand, to declare the status of “Unlawful Enemy Combatant” for… and convene a Military Commission to try… not John Walker Lindh, but George Walker Bush?

For the most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.  And doubtless, sir, all of them—as always—wrong.  Joe Scarborough is next.  Good night, and good luck.

 

SEE ALSO:

[1] KBR Awarded Project http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060124/20060124005819.html?.v=1
[2] Ashcroft’s Detention Camps http://www.prisonplanet.com/090402camps.html , Civil Rights Panelist Foresees Internment Push http://www.prisonplanet.com/rights_panelist_forsees_internment_push.html
[3] Preparing for Martial Law http://www.ocnus.net/artman/publish/article_22660.shtml 
[4]  - Homeland Security to Build Detention Camps in the U.S. http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/7254/Homeland_Security_To_Build_Detention_Camps_In_The_United_States 
[5] http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/national/04halliburton.html&OQ=_rQ3D1&OP=7800799cQ2FQ25PQ2AQ23Q25_Q2BHQ5EeQ2BQ2BxyQ25y,,Q7EQ25,yQ25,Q27Q25oaxmQ2BoaQ60Q25,Q27Q3EaQ60Q60mQ23Q5DexQ2Bo6Q3ExgQ60 
[6]  Customs Camps Cause for Concern http://www.presstelegram.com/search/ci_3470080
[7] Will Bush’s War on Terror Bring Back Internment Camps http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=de9dd9fbbbbd59388d802c3f4e0e1288
[8] Detention Centers By Any Other Name http://vivirlatino.com/2006/02/07/detention-centers-by-any-other-name.php
[9] Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Centers http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20SC20060206&articleId=1897
[10] Detention Camp Jitters http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/06/02/far06003.html
[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84
[11] What Sort of Emergency Requires Detention Centers http://www.blackcommentator.com/171/171_freedom_rider_halliburton_detention_centers.html
[12] Bush’s Mysterious New Programs http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/022106a.html
[13] 10 Year U.S. Strategic Plan for Detention Centers Revives Proposals from Oliver North http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=9c2d6a5e75201d7e3936ddc65cdd56a9

Battlefield America: U.S. Citizens Face Indefinite Military Detention in Defense Bill Before Senate, Amy Goodman http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2011/11/29/battlefield_america_us_citizens_face_indefinite

Boumediene v. Bush: What the Supreme Court Decision Means, Andy Worthington http://www.alternet.org/rights/88032/what_the_supreme_court’s_habeas_decision_means/

Bush and Habeas Corpus: Gutting the Constitution, John W. Whitehead http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/bush_and_habeas_corpus_gutting_the_constitution/

Bush Signs the Reichstag Fire Decree, Larisa Alexandrovna http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/bush-signs-the-reichstag-_b_32295.html

The Chickens Come Home to Roost - Losing our Civil Rights, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_chickens_come_home_to_roost/

Civil Liberty and the State: The Writ of Habeas Corpus, Richard M. Ebeling http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0204c.asp

Death of the great writ of liberty, Jennifer van Bergen http://www.counterpunch.org/bergen07192004.html

Detainees Deserve Court Trials, P. Sabin Willett http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/13/AR2005111301061.html

Chris Dodd’s fight to restore habeas corpus http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/chris-dodds-fight-to-rest_b_64765.html

The End of Habeas Corpus and the Belligerent Despot-in-Chief, Ralph Nader http://www.counterpunch.org/nader10232006.html

The Flaws in the Military Commissions Act, Sen. Russell Feingold http://www.counterpunch.org/feingold09282006.html

Gitmo Law Could Someday Apply to American Citizens, Adam Serwer http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/11/gitmo-law-could-someday-apply-americans

HABEAS CORPUS THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY WRIT http://habeascorpus.net/hcwrit.html

Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2006 http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2006_cr/s4081.html

Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 - 2006), Molly Ivins (on the detainee - or torture - bill and habeas corpus) http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060927_molly_ivins_habeas_corpus/

Indefinite Military Detention of Citizens on US Soil Still in Pentagon Spending Bill http://www.alternet.org/news/153259/indefinite_military_detention_of_citizens_on_us_soil_still_in_pentagon_spending_bill

Junking habeas corpus, Greg Moses http://www.counterpunch.org/moses10032006.html

Lawyers Fight for Habeas Rights, Frida Berrigan http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2890/

Military Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens Without a Trial Is Unconstitutional, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/indefinite-detention/0018886

Military Police State: Why is the Senate so determined to allow the U.S. military to arrest and detain U.S. citizens?  http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2011/11/citizen_detainment_why_is_the_senate_so_determined_to_allow_the_u_s_military_to_arrest_and_detain_americans_.html

Now That You Could be Labeled an Enemy Combatant…, Heather Wokusch http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1004-35.htm

Padilla and the Future of Habeas Corpus, Jacob Hornberger http://www.counterpunch.org/hornberger01032008.html

Republicans Give In To Bush, Betray America, Thom Hartmann http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0925-35.htm

Restoring Habeas Corpus, Geoffrey R. Stone http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-r-stone/restoring-habeas-corpus-r_b_42674.html

The Right of Habeas Corpus: A Truly Fundamental Human Right, Isaac M. McPhee http://constitutional-law.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_right_of_habeas_corpus

Senate Votes To Let Military Detain Americans Indefinitely, White House Threatens Veto, Michael McAuliff http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/senate-votes-to-let-military-detain-americans-indefinitely_n_1119473.html

U.S. Senate Votes for Indefinite, Unconstitutional Detention http://www.thenewamerican.com/opinion/959-jack-kenny/9993-us-senate-votes-for-indefinite-unconstitutional-detention

Victory: U.S. Supreme Court Affirms Habeas Corpus Rights For Detainees, The Rutherford Institute http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/victory_us_supreme_court_affirms_habeas_corpus_rights_for_detainees/

Why is habeas corpus important?, Josh Clark http://people.howstuffworks.com/habeas-corpus-important.htm/printable

 

Originally published February 2006

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