--- MDixon wrote: > > Presidents always have to follow the law. However the question is, is there > any wiggle room in that law under extraordinary circumstances such as war. > The > presidential legal teams think there is. Remember Lincoln suspended Habius > corpus, shut down the Maryland legislature and restricted free speech to some > > degree. FDR had people's mail censored and detained Japanese in internment > camps. LBJ had mail censored coming from troops in Vietnam. And I'm certain > there are many more examples of powers that presidents have been able to > enact > in times of war for national security.
MD, you recount these extreme measures by past presidents as if they were all justified. I'm not ready to assume they were. For example, I've encountered many citations of Lincoln suspending writs of habeas corpus, but not one citation has ever said, "And history proves he was correct to do so." Same with FDR's internment of Japanese Americans. If history teaches me anything from the above examples, it's that presidents take reprehensible actions under stress. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
