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From: "Rhonda Houston" <>
Subject: RE: Book on Rights in Time of War
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 18:30:01 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20050906111949.91722.qmail@web50203.mail.yahoo.com>


ISBN: 0679767320
Format: Paperback, 288pp
Pub. Date: December 1999
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Edition Description: 1 VINTAGE
Barnes & Noble Sales Rank: 18,569
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What I remember about the Vietnam Era miltiary when I was in the US Navy
uniform (within the Naval Intelligence Security department), I remember that
while in uniform (and out of it) I had no civil rights as a military
personnel...instead I had to go with the rules that were called the
Uniformed Code of Justice. When the miltary, the President (who is the
ultimate holder of power and 'boss' to whom all military soldiers answer to
and take orders, which is the balance of power that was established within
the Constitution for the President to have the last say over both civilians
and military. WE voted for him, or should I say the electoral college voted
him in and WE were the ones who elected the electoral college if you refresh
you governmental history.

What is done is not always regarded a 'fair or what is considered correct'
when viewing the world from a 'civilian window' out on the Marshall/Military
world of events. The upper most item of importance taken into consideration
is 'Security' and it isn't the 'individual' who counts, which means you
don't mess (joke or act uncooperative) with those 'in charge' which are
usually the military. This is when usually 'marshal law' is declared and
that's when THEY have to power to do whatever they think and sometimes feel
is correct at that moment or until Security (National security) is
established, and that's when one obeys strictly all posted and understood
rules laid down by those incharge..

I remember reading an article about this book and it used the fact that
although a civilian may have a lawyer to plead their case, the lawyer (which
usually his representative in a civil case) while under marshal law, no
civilian has rights nor will any representative within a legal sense will be
acknowledged because the 'state of the country is within marshal
law/military jurisdiction' and any part of a civilian manner of civil
liberties aren't and will not be acknowledged....no habeas corpus writ or
civil lawyer will protect....an individual may be held in jail for an
unforseen amount of time and no lawyer will make a difference, all of which
centers on National Security...and those are the facts and what one can
count on and expect, if and when marshal law is declared.

Rhonda Warmack Houston
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Here's what barnes and Noble.com has to say about the book:

ABOUT THE BOOK

All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime

FROM THE PUBLISHER
In All the Laws but One, William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United
States, provides an insightful and fascinating account of the history of
civil liberties during wartime and illuminates the cases where presidents
have suspended the law in the name of national security.

Abraham Lincoln, champion of freedom and the rights of man, suspended the
writ of habeas corpus early in the Civil War-later in the war he also
imposed limits upon freedom of speech and the press and demanded that
political criminals be tried in military courts. During World War II, the
government forced 100,000 U.S. residents of Japanese descent, including many
citizens, into detainment camps. Through these and other incidents Chief
Justice Rehnquist brilliantly probes the issues at stake in the balance
between the national interest and personal freedoms. With All the Laws but
One he significantly enlarges our understanding of how the Supreme Court has
interpreted the Constitution during past periods of national crisis-and
draws guidelines for how it should do so in the future.


-----Original Message-----
From: Arleigh Birchler [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 6:20 AM
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Subject: Book on Rights in Time of War

Has anyone read: "All the Laws but One; Civil Liberties in Wartime" by
William Rehnquist? Any comments? Is it worth buying? I note that it
contains some material about WWII, but I think it mostly emphasizes the
nineteenth century, especially the Lincoln Administration.




Arleigh Birchler, MDiv, BSN
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