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Crossing the Rubicon
by Jacob G. Hornberger, July 11, 2003

Have you noticed how many Americans get upset over the comparisons that are increasingly being made between the United States and National Socialist Germany? After all, it's not as though we're living in a police state, right?

Well, if U.S. officials could somehow assure us that the U.S. government's treatment of accused terrorists isn't moving in the same direction in which Nazi Germany treated accused traitors, maybe that would help to put those comparisons to rest.

Habeas corpus

Contrary to popular opinion, the cornerstone of a free society lies not with the freedoms enumerated in the First Amendment. They're important, but much more important is what very well could be considered to be the lynchpin of a free society - the right of habeas corpus - a right that is guaranteed within the original Constitution itself. ...