thinkprogress.org — In a ?major setback? to President Bush?s terrorism detention policies, a federal appeals court ruled today that sanctioning the indefinite detention of so-called "enemy combatants" would have "disastrous consequences for the constitution ? and the country."
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Closed AccountJun 12, 2007
stonedonkey is right. There are many secret prisons where the captives sacrificed their right to Habeus Corpus a looooong time ago. He shouldn't be dugg down... That should be even MORE publicized in fact.
Closed AccountJun 12, 2007
The problem is that the majority of them are just ordinary citizens... How can you justify taking a whole race of people hostage to isolate the violent 2%. It's ridiculous. We have to treat people like human beings. We have to be moral. What else do we have? Let us not be the land of apathy that everyone proclaims us to be.
Closed AccountJun 12, 2007
@jewspybehind911A Jew spy was behind 9/11?... That sounds like a conspiracy theory to me... Just what are you doing allying yourself with these "truthers?" You know you could be labeled an unlawful enemy combatant for that. Those guys aren't citizens ya know. I hear they even get tortured. You might oughta get a name that's more in line with moral standards if you want to keep your citizen rights.
dobbaJun 12, 2007
dmjarrington: "The problem is that the majority of them are just ordinary citizens... How can you justify taking a whole race of people hostage to isolate the violent 2%."Turn the whole thing on its head:Imagine there are no terrorists.Imagine that to keep control and further their 'cause' they need to keep up the pretence there are terrorists out to get us and who hate 'our freedoms' (puh-lease!).Imagine that they need people to admit they are terrorists so they can say "there you go, he admits he's a terrorist and carried out such and such an attack".Imagine that to get these confessions they must torture innocent people into a confession off US soil (so there's no legal implications). Under torture, many people will admit to almost anything, despite the consequences of such a confession.I don't think it's too hard to imagine that there's a lot of truth to that imagination.
leviathan777Jun 12, 2007
gastrodamus, chickens**ts like you are doing the work of the terrorists. every time they go "boo", you try to make sure everyone is really scared so we don't do our patriotic duty and question what our government is doing.mayor bloomberg got it right: get a life!with "friends" like you, running around like chicken little, the terrorists don't even have to succeed to get their job accomplished - you'll make up the gap for them!
Closed AccountJun 12, 2007
They push torture because at the highest levels they know for a fact they won't get an honest confession from any of these people...because they ARE innocent... That's why they need a Military Commissions system... Without it BushCo goes to jail.
haapiJun 12, 2007
You idiot. Russia is not sliding back in to Communism, but rather a mercantilist oligarchy with a figurehead supreme leader just like .. ah .. wait a sec .. oh, crap.
aliengoodsJun 12, 2007
@rightsideI'm sick of bulls**t rhetoric from people like you. How does giving a person a trial make it easier for the terrorists?I'm waiting.That's right, it doesn't. However, holding innocent people for years without a trial can help the terrorists, as I imagine they have one more recruit. Stop sucking the right wing dick and open your eyes.