Keith Olbermann Quotes
Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.
Olbermann, Keith. Countdown with Keith Olbermann. MSNBC, 18 Oct. 2006.
See Luis Kutner, the originator of the concept.
Sealed under duress and later repudiated by the King with Papal assistance
Mosley had been incarcerated without charges or trial under the “national emergency” of the Second World War. This prevented him from organizing his “Blackshirts.” When it was clear that Germany would lose the war, Oswald was released, but without the prospect of Fascism dominating continental Europe, there was little interest in Fascist movements in England.
In the aftermath of 9-11, a few government agencies violated the law and civil rights of a number of “Muslims” and/or “Middle Eastern looking” individuals and held them incommunicado with no charges and no warrants. The rationale of those agencies is that they “could not take a chance as lives were at stake. In most major wars in America, there has been an “overreaction” by some officials.
The Jury Trial was part of New York Law more than a century before the Constitution.
The choice is usually contrasted between guilty persons going free, rather an innocent one be adjudicated guilty. But here the justice tells us that the avoidance of an innocent person being subject to easy arrest is important enough to have a system where guilty people sometimes escape justice.
Keith Theodore Olbermann is an American sports and political commentator and writer.
