Habeas Corpus, the Great Writ, guarantees all Freedom. Not just fair hearings. Without Habeas we lose it all. The right to speech, arms, assembly...wiped out.
If you speak out, you disappear.
If you bear arms, you disappear.
If you assemble, you disappear.
There are a lot of amateurs and bad lawyers arguing that we don’t have this right. Their arguments are simple, easy to understand for laymen. That is their weapon.
The first breath you take in this world guarantees you the right of Habeas Corpus. You don’t need any damned document telling you that it is yours.
This is more than an American right. This is an immutable human right superseding all else.
The founders knew this, went into great depth about it. The constitution itself is the acknowledgment of Habeas Corpus.
If you can make anyone you want disappear. You are the law.
If you are the law, there is no need to write a constitution.
Without Habeas Corpus there are NO RIGHTS.
The constitution doesn’t guarantee Habeas Corpus; at least it doesn’t say it exactly the way that would make simpletons happy. Morons need everything spelled out. So the republicans make their simple argument.
It’s not written out exactly right, so it doesn’t exist.
That’s it. That is the heart of their argument.
If you believe it you are simple, and deserve no freedom.
If you believe it you are an idiot and deserve no rights.
If we let the simpletons have their way it will get simpler still. Your choices will be whittled away year after year until you have none to make. Everything will be simple for you then.
You will live under the thumbs of men who will control you in every way. You lose it all.
But life will be simple. Tyranny is simplicity itself.
If I have called you a moron in the course of writing this, you fucking deserve it. How dare you make yourself complicit in Tyranny.