THIS is why Habeas Corpus is PARAMOUNT

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Appeals Court Invalidates Detainee's 'Enemy' Status

A federal appeals court in Washington has invalidated the Bush administration's finding that a detainee held for more than six years in the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba is an "enemy combatant," and has ordered the government to release him, transfer him or offer him a new hearing.

In a ruling decided Friday but released yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that Huzaifa Parhat, an ethnic Chinese Uighur (Tim: Uygur??) captured during the early stages of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, was inappropriately designated an enemy combatant at a hearing before a Combatant Status Review Tribunal.


This is a prime example of WHY Habeas shouldn't be waylaid. These people should have appeared in front of a judge 6 years ago!

Note that this was the lopsided to the Right D.C. Court of Appeals, not the commie-pinko-hippie-Liberal 5th Circuit Court...
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This is beginning to look like Kafka novel (none / 0)

Did you read the comment by the man's attorney?  They asked him how his client reacted to the news, and he said something to the effect of "That's a great question.  I don't know because I'm not allowed by the government to tell him."  

This question is starting to make me sound really naive, but how in the world are we letting this happen. Put aside all the discussions about whether guantanamo bay helps or hinders the fight against terrorism.  This is simply not what this country is about.  In fact it is about as antithetical to core values of this country as something can be.  

The one hope that I have is that eventually just like with slavery, and manifest destiny, people will see that this is inherently wrong and help us to stop it.  I just hope it come in time to make a difference. 

by funkyspoon on 06/26/2008 01:21:58 AM EST

As usual (none / 0)
My buddy Tim omits the inconvenient part of the story.

“Defense Department officials have long agreed that Parhat and other Uighurs should not be detained. U.S. officials have had difficulty finding a country willing to accept the men but do not want to release them to their native China, where they fear they could be tortured or killed. Five Uighurs who were cleared for release were transferred to Albania in 2006.”

Tim is much more concerned with due process for detainees in Gitmo than he is about Marines charged with war crimes.

Here is Jack Murtha, “supporting the troops” as usual.

Latest news reports indicate that the Haditha case is evaporating under due process. Where’s the outrage Tim?
I can’t wait until they capture OBL, and bring him to America to give him his constitutional rights and a trial in front of a jury of his peers. He will be represented by the 50 best defense attorneys in the country. When he walks free, just like OJ Simpson, I’m going to laugh my ass off at you foolish liberals.

by KenTX on 06/26/2008 08:54:54 AM EST

You just don't get it. (none / 0)

 

We cannot hold ourselves out as a paragon of laws if we refuse to provide them to one and all. 

You always amuse me by pulling out the straw man of a returnees country torturing or killing them. Why in the world is that worse to you than AMERICA doing it? It doesn't matter WHO does it, it's WRONG.

Links from an Information Clearing House digest is me "convicting the Marines of Haditha"? Sure, sure...

Haditha is in line with the SOP for the Bush administration in general - deny, deny, deny, even if you are caught red-handed. Do it long enough, and it will fade away...

Any 14 year old girls been shot by a soldier in your neck of the woods recently?

 

by MedfordTim on 06/27/2008 02:09:52 AM EST

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good for goose, not for gander (none / 0)
Here is Tojo, in the last minute of his life.
tojo 
He wasn’t given constitutional rights. He wasn’t given a jury trial.

The problem with a jury trial in an American court is that with enough money and enough lawyers, a rich guy like OJ Simpson can literally get away with murder. (I personally know a guy who did exactly that.)

We have an extremely liberal judicial system, and it should be reserved for U.S. citizens.

by KenTX on 06/27/2008 10:59:44 AM EST

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