We can always fall back to the Magna Carta
Posted by Andy on September 29th, 2006
What? The Magna Carta?
It’s not as if we’re talking only about a voluntary convention agreed to less than a century ago. These rights have been part of Anglo-American jurisprudence for nearly 800 years.
Articles 38 and 39 of the Magna Carta provide:
38 In future no official shall place a man on trial upon his own unsupported statement, without producing credible witnesses to the truth of it.39 No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land.
I can’t believe the elft in America. Check that. This nutter is from Minnesota. This is from a liberal love letter to Dayton.
The Magna Carta? The American left wants to have the laws from centuries before we were even a colony govern us. These people will get us killed. They are fighting tooth and nail to provide terrorists with therights that they can use to kill us.
What’s next?
September 30th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
Jesus H.Christ, you’re stupid.
October 1st, 2006 at 11:14 am
Ok, that was harsh. Sorry. You’re not stupid, you just don’t seem to have any historical perspective that the rights in the Magna Carta aren’t what we’ll “fall back on.” The 800 year old rights in the Magna Carta are what the GOP’s Torture Bill eliminates for anyone the President (yes, including the next Democratic one that’s in power, you short-sighetd fools) decides to label an “enemy combatant.”