Supreme Court Justice Addresses Wartime Constitutional Rights

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Supreme Court Justice Addresses Wartime Constitutional Rights

The Associated Press Published: Mar 18, 2003

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) - The government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Tuesday.

"The Constitution just sets minimums," Scalia said after a speech at John Carroll University in suburban Cleveland. "Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires."

Scalia, one of the court's most conservative judges, was responding to a question about the Justice Department's pursuit of terrorism suspects and whether their rights are being violated.

Scalia did not discuss what rights he believed are constitutionally protected, but said that in wartime, one can expect "the protections will be ratcheted right down to the constitutional minimum. I won't let it go beyond the constitutional minimum."

Scalia was interrupted once briefly by a protester who shouted an anti-war statement. The protester was taken from the room by security officers but was not arrested.

Scalia stopped speaking during the scuffle, then joked that the protest probably was more interesting than his topic, which was the constitutional protection of religions.

[nopardons]

Good gracious me ! ROTFLOL

[SevenDaysInMay]

Government, as any entity, protects itself and its ever expanding power against the People who created and allow government to serve, only by consent of the People.

Our Constitution says what it says without the article, amendment, clause, or even a word meaning, "those rights of the People, except as otherwise to be infringed at will by the Executive, Legislative, or Judicial branches of this or any submissive governments of the United States of America therein." Only our rulers claim that magic power not granted government by We the People. This issue is the ruling class' self-serving "stare decisis", under penalty of law, as our rulers will determine such law to be, regardless of what our Constitution actually states.

Judges and justices are needed only to interpret and apply the law, as written and lawfully adopted, to resolve certain conflicting causes of action, but blackrobes serve no Constitutional purpose in telling us, under penalty of law, what the Constitution will mean to the governed when the powers that be wish our inconvenient Constitution on life support. Bench law is no more than an insult whereby the judge and the people pretend that the "ruling" means anything.

The tree of liberty is parched from several generations of socialist, unConstitutionally interpretive adulterations abridging and infringing the clear and precise Law of the Land which limits the powers of government affirming the Rights of the People. We the People are the only guarantors of our liberty.

Fascism is nothing but criminally corrupt socialism where a self-selected elite abuses the police powers of the state, public treasury, and critical enterprises' factors of production to control the national economy to enforce their agendas.

The Democrat Party from LBJ through Bill & Hillary is clearly fascist, as the multiple felony bound XXX42 with his Chappasquaw suckling their accomplices in the House and Senate so blatantly demonstrated. Hillary stated that, "The Party is the nation."

Hillary with the Democrat Politburo is scheming more and more like fellow lawyer Vladimir Ilivich Lenin (Ulianov) while in exile, planning the Party's takeover of government.

IMO, Hillary lusts to appoint the next several SCOTUS justices and the critical appellate judges to control the United States. She like Bill would aggressively direct the radically expanding police powers of the State security apperatus, "Homeland Security". (Ask the Branch Davidians what that means; yes, a very few did survive the Clintons' 1993 pogrom.)

Should the Poliburo fail to take control, they risk their own prosecutions and imprisonment for years of debased and high crimes and misdemeanors. Democrats' level of corruptions may allow the Politburo complete, albeit temporary success.

Hillary and the XXX42 Politburo may fight for power of the State like Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvilli (Stalin). Megalomania demands results. The Democrats have proven for all to see that they are willing to commit felonies and treason only to cover up to protect their own power. "The Party is the nation." As AlGore threatened, "You ain't seen nothin' yet!"

By conservatives or fascists adulterations, these "living" Constitution extralegal, aka outlaw, interpretations will kill our Republic as they attempt to control the Rights of the People.

The People can withdraw their consent to our rulers for their userpations by any means necessary at the time of our choosing.

Reread our Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, Tony, remembering that we, sworn to protect and defend our Constitution, outnumber rulers.

[dirtboy]

I won't let it go beyond the constitutional minimum.

Yeah, right. Considering how many times Scalia has voted to severly restrict 4th Amendment rights, I'm really not sure what he considers a minimum to be.