via Jesus’ General:
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? The parties who may be arrested may be charged instantly with a well defined crime; of course, the judge will remand them. If the public safety requires that the government should have a man imprisoned on less probable testimony in those than in other emergencies, let him be taken and tried, retaken and retried, while the necessity continues, only giving him redress against the government for damages.
Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the habeas corpus law have been worthy of that suspension. They have been either real treasons, wherein the parties might as well have been charged at once, or sham plots, where it was shameful they should ever have been suspected. Yet for the few cases wherein the suspension of the habeas corpus has done real good, that operation is now become habitual and the minds of the nation almost prepared to live under its constant suspension.
—Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788
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This is why I laugh uncontrollably at our junior senator from Va. as he spouts off about having attended ‘Jefferson’s university’ while in the same breath rooting for Shrub and his attempt to subvert every Constitutional provision he thinks he can get away with.
Yep. The only consolation is that when these clueless mendacites die, God lets Jefferson have a poke at them before he sends them to Hell.
It would almost be worth it to be sitting in hell and watching the looks on their faces after a little applied Jeffersonian thought
Jeffersonian punishment will be dealt out in a Heavenly replica of Monticello, which will make the subsequent debasement all the more poignant.
Heaven is nothing more, and nothing less, than a succession of classical libraries, with one big Guy sitting by the fire, saying “So, what do you want to know?”
I have heard it said that hell is other people.
I imagine Dubya staring upwards at a gigantic assemblage of the Founding Fathers, and among them his own Father (might as well handle his Oedipal issues at the same time).
Did I mention Jesus? He’s there too–all those whose names the current occupant invokes when he wants to murder and torture.
All of them have looks of disgust on their faces.
Then I imagine a multitudinous sound of scraping zippers.
Then “the gentle rain from heaven”. Eternally.
When the world south of the forty-ninth seems at its craziest, these thoughts keep me warm at night. God help the writing man in such times, FE.
I don’t think they’d pee on him. I think they’d ignore him, because he could build a martyr complex out of abuse.
you guys are sooo lame. you dont even get it do you
you are all idiots.
At least we know how to fill in URLs. And punctuate.