sorry. habeas corpus was also suspended in WWII, & in that case, 2 americans were sent to jail outside a civilian system of justice:
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In 1942, eight German saboteurs, including two U.S. citizens, who had entered the United States were convicted by a secret military court set up by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In Ex parte Quirin (1942) the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the writ of habeas corpus did not apply, and that the military tribunal had jurisdiction to try the saboteurs, due to their status as unlawful combatants.
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fact is, the war on terrorism is a wishy-washy term that gives the government a gaping loophole to use terror to suspend due process for americans. People who hate everything the government does, the tea baggers, gun nuts, ron paul dead enders, will rail against this. Libertarian leaning liberals will also have a hissy fit.
But the real irony of all is a black democrat president is residing over this matter. That is just the biggest LOL there is
