(+) Today I am not ashamed to be an American
(+) As I sped south at 90 mph through the grapevine at 6 AM Sunday morning, I came upon a cop around a bend. I braked and passed her at 80 mph. She never pulled out to give me a ticket.
(+) First and second gear stopped working in my car last week. I left it in the driveway hoping that they would return on their own. Everyone at work laughed at me and told me my four-year-old not-even-fucking-paid-off Civic needed a new transmission. I drove it in third gear to the mechanic, rolling through stop signs and traveling in the early morning to avoid traffic. It turned out to be a broken pin in the linkage between the stick shift and the transmission and the repair only cost $45.
(+) Today the Constitution was upheld and my degree of shame at being American has lessened.Our basic charter cannot be contracted away like this. The Constitution grants Congress and the President the power to acquire, dispose of, and govern territory, not the power to decide when and where its terms apply.
The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times. Liberty and security can be reconciled; and in our system they are reconciled within the framework of the law. The Framers decided that habeas corpus, a right of first importance, must be a part of that framework, a part of that law.
(+) First and second gear stopped working in my car last week. I left it in the driveway hoping that they would return on their own. Everyone at work laughed at me and told me my four-year-old not-even-fucking-paid-off Civic needed a new transmission. I drove it in third gear to the mechanic, rolling through stop signs and traveling in the early morning to avoid traffic. It turned out to be a broken pin in the linkage between the stick shift and the transmission and the repair only cost $45.
(+) Today the Constitution was upheld and my degree of shame at being American has lessened.Our basic charter cannot be contracted away like this. The Constitution grants Congress and the President the power to acquire, dispose of, and govern territory, not the power to decide when and where its terms apply.
The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times. Liberty and security can be reconciled; and in our system they are reconciled within the framework of the law. The Framers decided that habeas corpus, a right of first importance, must be a part of that framework, a part of that law.