Have more freedoms been lost during Bush's War than during WWII & WWI?

Question

Combined?

Answer 1

The removal of Habeas Corpus removes all the other freedoms.

Any freedom you have after that is because the Government hasn't disappeared you yet.

Kieth Olbermann did a really good job of outlining it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfOiOkfvVdE
Keith Olbermann: Death of Habeas Corpus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWF2I0opf7w&mode=related&search=
Olbermann-HabeusCorpus- and the death of the bill of rights


Even without that, many police have decided they don't need to follow any laws either, so if they are mad at you for not be subservient enough they can beat you up and charge you with attacking them, then you go away for years and it is only your word against theirs. What was your public defender has only time to be your public negotiator of your plea deal, Fight and it will be worse. Innocence is no defense.

The only rights anyone has now are the ones they have not had tested recently, and it is only when they are tested that they are relevant

Meanwhile the Gang Of Pirates get away with crime after crime and there is nobody to say no.

Answer 2

Yes. During the World Wars specific and limited regulations were enacted--publicly and through legal process--spcifically directed to meeting clearly identified wartime needs.

What Bush has (attempted) to do is undermine the legal foundation of our rights itself--the Constitution. And has made it clear he indends for this to be both unrestricted by statute (as were the WWI and WWII measures) and permanant.

That is a far more serious threat--and loss of freedom--than anything anyone even contemplated during the World Wars.

But then, both Wilson and Roosevelt were loyal Amricans, unlike the present occupant of th eWhite House--who has made his lack of loyalty to the United Staes clear in his derision of the Constitution as a "damn piece of paper."

Answer 3

Ask the Japaneze Americans interred at Manzanar under Executive Order No. 9066.... wait that was WWII.

Ask those who had their mail censored under Executive Order 8389. Wait that was WWII again.

Ask those who were prohibited from criticizing the government under the sedition act... no, wait, that was WW1.

How about the removal of Habeus Corpus rights for American Citizens? That HAS NOT HAPPENED. The suspension of HC is specifically for non citizens. Not like the civil war when Lincoln suspended it.

Looks like you need to learn a little history there, flushles...

Answer 4

These kinds of things always happen in war and they are constitutional. The "takings clause" requires the federal government to show just cause whenever taking life, liberty or property from US citizens. War is one of the means the USSC has justified eminent domain.

Answer 5

I really doubt it. There are plenty of Arabs running around the US who haven't been sent to Gitmo, but in WWII, every last person of Japanese ancestry, citizen or not, was taken to internment camps.

Bush doesn't have anything on FDR for restricting freedoms.

Oh, yeah, the Alien and Sedition act of WWI.... my grandmother could trace her lineage from the Mayflower. She married a citizen of one of the Allied countries. She lost her citizenship for that. No one even told her about it.

Bush take anyone's citizenship away? No? Then there's only one conclusion possible.

You're a Dufus.

Answer 6

No. But its bad enough to justify having Bush impeached and removed from office.

Answer 7

In both world wars we had to intervene. Bush's War was based on nothing but lies out of his administration. As for your republican answers, I wouldn't wast my time reading

Answer 8

I think the Patriot Act has just about anything in history beat. Anyone that hasn't read it - should do so - it reads like a horror novel.

Answer 9

I don't know, the Sedition Act in WWI was pretty ugly...

"Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall willfully make or convey false reports, or false statements, . . . or incite insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct . . . the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, or . . . shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States . . . or shall willfully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall willfully . . . urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production . . . or advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated and whoever shall by word or act support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein, "

Answer 10

Not even close. The world wars had internment camps, and the government seized control of private industry - including the railroads - in WWI.

So what freedom have you lost, exactly? Name one freedom you have lost.