Lincoln Was First to Trump Constitution

YouTube personality "Sage Wanderer" recently posted a video questioning a report by Alex Jones which states:

"President Trump is planning to carry out mass arrests of deep state traitors, including Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, James Comey and even Barack Obama.This is fully covered, with accompanying documentation from the U.S. Federal Register."

The Jones' report also states:

" The confirmation of Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court is the key to getting this done in a timely manner, which explains why the deranged Left is going to such outrageous extremes to fabricate false allegations against Kavanaugh and stage coordinated, well-funded protests to try to block the U.S. Senate from confirming him.

Once Kavanaugh is on the court, it will add the necessary support for constitutional “emergency powers” that concentrate power in the executive branch of government (currently headed by President Trump) during times of war and national emergencies."

While Sage questions the accuracy of this report (as do I) he goes on to state that no one has ever suspended the Constitution of go after criminals of the government.

While I am a fan of the Sage here's the thing...they have.

Both Presidents Lincoln and Bush have suspended the writ of Habeas Corpus. In an article entitled "A Different View Of The Law Of Habeas Corpus During The Lincoln And Bush Presidencies" author Jonathan Hafetz writes:

"Lincoln initially suspended habeas corpus when Congress was not in session–and hence when legislative approval was not an option. To be sure, the suspension continued without congressional imprimatur until March 1863, and led to the imprisonment of more than thirteen thousand individuals in military jails without charges or trial, including newspaper editors considered sympathetic to the Confederate cause."

Hafetz continues...

"President Bush, by contrast, did not seek temporary limits on habeas corpus, but sought to deny access to the writ to an entire category of people in a conflict he himself insisted was of potentially limitless duration and scope and would last at least several generations. The Bush administration also explicitly discriminated based on alienage, as part of an effort to create a permanent second-class justice system for foreign nationals detained under the elastic and malleable label of “enemy combatant”–an effort that later gained congressional sanction through court-stripping legislation"

I really want to see members of the Deep State arrested , tried and imprisoned for what they have done and , like Sage, I do not agree with the suspension of the Constitution to do it. But the point is, it has been done and as a result of both Lincoln and Bush's actions the federal government has used a crisis as an excuse to increase its power by limiting freedom of the American people.