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Originally posted by MagiK:
So...if this all so egregious, heinous, outrageous, unlawful, illegal, mean, bad, nasty and down right major bad karma...where are the: Supreme court? the Attourney General, The FBI, and every other law enforcement agency?
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Either in on the take, cowering in the corner, or pretending not to notice, obviously. C'mon, do you really expect Rhenquist, Scalia, O'Connor and Thomas to uphold civil liberties in a case that pits likely terrorists against the administration? As Robert Bork laments, the hijacking of the Courts by politics, be it to liberal or conservative ends, interjects and prevents them from actually doing their job and APPLYING the law.
They have been held since Afghanistan with no trial, no charges, no nothing. Imagine that. Nowhere in the world should we stand for that. There are rules regarding how we treat prisoners of war and rules regarding how we treat civilian prisoners. To argue niether applies is blatantly silly.
Either we got the goods on 'em or we are violating their rights. I think relatives in Afghanistan should flood us with habeas corpus ("produce the body") writs. This is one of the oldest ideas in the theory of justice. Surely you can't defend this behavior. Go ahead, try.