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We’re not sure Francis Key Howard appreciated the scrumptious poetry of it. From his cell at Fort McHenry, he may look out by the daybreak’s early mild and see that star-spangled banner. But for the grandson of Francis Scott Key, the sight will need to have caught in his craw.

Just as England needed to conquer Wales and Scotland earlier than it may tackle India, the US needed to subdue its erring Southern states earlier than it may assault Iraq. Both had been on the trail of empire; Howard was simply roadkill.

We noticed final week how some issues are worse than dropping money. Martial law could also be one of them. The editor of the Baltimore Exchange was held below lock and key by an invading military. Abraham Lincoln didn’t recognize his level of view.

Howard thought the US Constitution gave him the suitable to carry any opinion he wished, even one which favored the South. He thought it additionally allowed free people to determine for themselves who ought to rule over them. And he believed that he have to be entitled to defend himself in court docket; ‘What about habeas corpus,’ he will need to have muttered by way of bars.

Hadn’t Chief Justice Taney (a Marylander) acknowledged very clearly that:

“The privilege of the writ [habeas corpus] could not be suspended except by act of Congress…under the Constitution and laws of the United States, [the president] cannot suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, nor authorize any military officer to do so.”

And but, that’s what President Lincoln did…and when the courts discovered that he lacked the authority, he merely ignored them.

The ‘Civil’ War started on the streets of our hometown, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Richard Sprigg Steuart described what occurred.

I occurred to be in Baltimore on the night time of the nineteenth April 1861, and witnessed the outburst of feeling on the half of the people. Generally, when the Massachusetts troops had been passing by way of town of Baltimore, it was evident to me that 75% of the population was in favour of repelling these troops. Instinctively the people appeared to look upon them as intruders, or as invaders of the South, not as defenders of the City of Baltimore. How or by whom the primary blow was given can’t be now ascertained, however the feeling of resistance was contagious and highly effective.

The residents of Baltimore threw stones. The troopers fired their weapons. Blood was drawn and the battle was on.

A month later, a Union common entered city and declared martial law. By September, ‘peace keeping forces’ had shut down 9 newspapers and imprisoned many of Maryland’s main residents — editors and publishers, one of Maryland’s congressmen, Mayor George Brown and your complete City Council of Baltimore, all of the state’s police commissioners together with a third of the Maryland meeting.

And right now, it’s the Los Angelenos who’re throwing stones.

The president has known as up the National Guard to assist his deportation program. The Defense Secretary is sending the Marines. Anyone who will get of their means could also be subject to arrest.

When the US attacked Iraq, claiming it was combating terrorism, it was simply a matter of time earlier than the terrorist fighters can be turned free on home ‘terrorists.’ Then, in his “Battle for the Soul of the Nation” speech in 2022, Joe Biden — flanked by armed troopers and blood-crimson background lighting — inspired listeners to suppose of MAGA supporters as enemies of the nation:

Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans characterize an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.

Now the shoe is on the opposite foot. But it’s nonetheless strolling in the identical direction.

The aforementioned Roger B. Taney, chief justice of the Supreme Court, is extensively accused of having began the ‘Civil’ War himself. His resolution within the Dred Scott case over-reached to the purpose the place he declared that people of African descent “are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.”

The resolution was each extraordinarily provocative, and never precisely truthful. Free Blacks had been included on the citizen rolls of some states and had voted of their elections. But no matter. That was the bulk resolution and it’s the purpose, amongst different issues, that Taney’s lugubrious statue was just lately faraway from the park in entrance of our home in Baltimore.

The ‘writ’ of habeas corpus requires the federal government to show proof of a crime earlier than taking away a particular person’s liberty or property. Kristi Noem may not know this, however it’s historic and elementary to the rule of law. Who doesn’t get the benefit of it right now? The Wall Street Journal:

The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown

In late May, Stephen Miller, a prime White House aide and the architect of the president’s immigration agenda, addressed a assembly on the headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, generally known as ICE. The message was clear: The president, who promised to deport thousands and thousands of immigrants dwelling within the nation illegally, wasn’t happy. The company had higher step it up.

Agents didn’t need to develop goal lists of immigrants suspected of being within the U.S. illegally, a longstanding observe, Miller mentioned. Instead, he directed them to focus on Home Depot, the place day laborers usually collect for rent, or 7-Eleven comfort shops. Miller guess that he and a handful of brokers may exit on the streets of Washington, D.C., and arrest 30 people instantly.

And so, the ICE brokers went forth, over all of the land. Masked and armed, however with out arrest warrants, they ignored habeas corpus and rounded them up – hundreds of them. What did the immigrants do unsuitable? Nobody is aware of; no fees had been filed; no court docket heard the proof.

“Another flight every day,” mentioned Tom Homan, US ‘border czar,’ no matter that’s. “We are not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think.”

Asked if Homan ought to arrest California Gavin Newsom, Donald Trump replied:

“I’d do it if I were Tom…Gavin likes the publicity, but I think it would be a great thing.”

Regards,

Bill Bonner,
For The Daily Reckoning Australia

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