This time the teacher is Senator Arlen Specter, former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. On Thursday he questioned Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States—the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government—during a hearing on the “Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice .” Watch it here.
GONZALES: I will go back and look at it. The fact that the Constitution — again, there is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There is a prohibition against taking it away. But it’s never been the case, and I’m not a Supreme —
SPECTER: Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. The constitution says you can’t take it away, except in the case of rebellion or invasion. Doesn’t that mean you have the right of habeas corpus, unless there is an invasion or rebellion?
GONZALES: I meant by that comment, the Constitution doesn’t say, “Every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right to habeas.” It doesn’t say that. It simply says the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspended except by —
SPECTER: You may be treading on your interdiction and violating common sense, Mr. Attorney General.
GONZALES: Um.
Um? Um, as in “am I really the chief law enforcement officer of the US government?” Um… isn’t this guy supposed to know The Constitution inside and out?
Read it Alberto:
From Article 1, Section 9: “The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”
Alberto’s interpretation: “It simply says the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspended except by — “
Gonzales is obviously not qualified to hold office. “We The People” need to impeach this contemptuous little twit.
Alberto Gonzales’s regime may already be subverting the 4th amendment in order to subvert the 1st amendment:
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