You must be the last remaining Darrin Stephens, the one who managed to avoid succumbing to AIDS.
“There is also another right which is being trampled here that we don't hear about which habeas could solve: the right to be presumed innocent until found guilty. Most certainly there are terrorist fighters among the detainees, as sure as there are people who were caught in a very wide cast net. Unfortunately, holding people for 5+ years without really caring who they are or why they were picked up in the first place doesn't do much to further our cause of justice, democracy and peace.”
We only have 400 dog kennel cages in Gitmo. There is only enough room for detainees with potential intelligence value, so we constantly recycle the captives, sending many back to the Middle East,
so they can kill again.
Marines and soldiers are not trained as CSI detectives, gathering eyewitness testimony and forensics on the battlefield, in the middle of a war, so we can give jury trials and constitutional rights to foreign saboteurs who have never set foot on American soil.
I researched the reason that Nazi POWs or Korean POWs or Vietnamese POWs or even Confederate POWs were never given habeas and jury trials, and learned that Americans thought that was a really stupid idea.
Fortunately we have a practical workaround to
Boumediene. All future detainees will be held and “interrogated” by the host countries of Iraq and Afghanistan. American troops will simply draw a perimeter around the POW camp to prevent any jailbreaks.
“As to taking down Fox, if Greenwald is doing this (I couldn't find a cite for it) it's not because they present the news with a conservative bent; it's because they present the news with a truthiness bent.”
FoxNews has the constitutional right to present information, or even misinformation, with a political slant. It’s called free speech. It’s what you do with every post, when you spread your lies and propaganda in support of the liberal cause.
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KenTX on
07/19/2008 05:08:52 PM EST
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