Thomas Jefferson, terrorist mollycoddler

You expect better than this from one of our nations founding fathers. No wonder John Adams hated him.

Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? The parties who may be arrested may be charged instantly with a well defined crime; of course, the judge will remand them. If the public safety requires that the government should have a man imprisoned on less probable testimony in those than in other emergencies, let him be taken and tried, retaken and retried, while the necessity continues, only giving him redress against the government for damages. Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the habeas corpus law have been worthy of that suspension. They have been either real treasons, wherein the parties might as well have been charged at once, or sham plots, where it was shameful they should ever have been suspected. Yet for the few cases wherein the suspension of the habeas corpus has done real good, that operation is now become habitual and the minds of the nation almost prepared to live under its constant suspension.

--Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788.

And he calls himself a Virginian. He wouldn't be fit to run for dog catcher there, these days. Heck, he'd be too busy pulling deer heads out of his mailbox to even do that. Sen. Allen would see to it, given Jefferson's close relationship with Sally Hemings.

If that bastard were around today, I'd do the patriotic thing and courageously send him an anonymous letter filled with suspicious white powder. That'd shut him up.