FDR Fireside Chat Reference In Scott's Tower Calendar

[Peter Murray]

Fascinating, but they didn't have any radio in the South. Or in the North,
for that matter! :)

-Peter


On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Attorney Chase <attychase@comcast.net>wrote:

> Believe it or not the CSA had a Constitution that very much tracked the US
> Constitution and incorporated the Bill of Rights and concepts of due
> process
> in it.  See http://www.usconstitution.net/csa.html#A1Sec9 Thus if the CSA
> combatants were being excluded in the comment from the requirement to
> provide due process because they were no longer citizens of the US, they
> would have been covered by their own CSA Constitution's provisions of due
> process. (Article 1, Section 9, Clause 16.)
>
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:37:52 -0400
> > From: A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com>
> > To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> > Subject: Re: FDR Fireside Chat Reference In Scott's Tower Calendar
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> > On 3/19/2013 1:27 PM, Attorney Chase wrote:
> >
> >> N.B. Neither side gave the other due process as they tried to kill each
> >> other at Gettysburg.
> >
> > This is the nub of the issue as I see it.  There have long been
> > occasions when the government has killed American citizens on American
> > soil without due process, and in a number of instances it is considered
> > acceptable.  The Civil War was an example, though it can be argued that
> > Confederate soldiers didn't count as US citizens at the time, since they
> > had relinquished their citizenship.  But what about when police take out
> > a gunman or a hostage-taker to stop him from killing (more) people?  To
> > what process is he entitled? The question isn't whether the government
> > is justified in killing citizens on US soil, it's just when and under
> > what circumstances it's acceptable.  And that's not entirely an easy
> > question.
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