# Senate Pubs block bill to restore habeas corpus rights to "terrorist" detainees **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 20, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-pubs-block-bill-to-restore-habeas-corpus-rights-to-terrorist-detainees/419823 "2007-09-20T01:32:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-pubs-block-bill-to-restore-habeas-corpus-rights-to-terrorist-detainees/419823/121 "2007-09-24T19:23:28Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] It’s something our government is doing to people. How is that **not** a question of public morality?! [/QUOTE] Our government does plenty of things to people. It licenses them to drive and permits them to practice law. It imprisons them when they are found to have violated the criminal code. Which of those are objectively issues of public morality, and why? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-pubs-block-bill-to-restore-habeas-corpus-rights-to-terrorist-detainees/419823/122 "2007-09-24T22:00:46Z")
[QUOTE=Bricker] Our government does plenty of things to people. It licenses them to drive and permits them to practice law. It imprisons them when they are found to have violated the criminal code. Which of those are objectively issues of public morality, and why? [/QUOTE] **All** of them are questions of public morality to the extent they have any moral aspect or relevance at all; which this one clearly does. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-pubs-block-bill-to-restore-habeas-corpus-rights-to-terrorist-detainees/419823.md?page=6)