Guantanamo Bay Detainees Can't Challenge Detention in U.S. Courts.
WASHINGTON — Guantanamo Bay detainees may not challenge their detention in U.S. courts, a federal appeals court said Tuesday in a ruling upholding a key provision in a law at the center of President Bush's anti-terrorism plan.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 that civilian courts no longer have the authority to consider whether the military is illegally holding foreigners.
Barring detainees from the U.S. court system was a key provision in the Military Commissions Act, which Bush pushed through Congress last year to set up a system to prosecute terrorism suspects.
The ruling is all but certain to be appealed to the Supreme Court, which last year struck down the Bush administration's original plan for trying detainees before military commissions.
The Military Commissions Act was crafted in response to that decision and the president hailed it as a necessary tool for bringing terror suspects to justice.
Good.
R.I.P. Steven Malcolm Anderson
Solution? 250 bullets. Or fewer, if we can get them to double up. Maybe put the executions on Pay-Per-View, to raise money for armored Humvees or something. Still working out the details, but you get the idea.
Shep, my 'empathy' doesn't lie with those that kill US troops, blow up women and children in markets, or swear they were "in the wrong place at the wrong time". Pulling a trigger at US troops earns you 1 of 2 ways - DEATH (my prefered method, less legal manuvers and wanking) or prison. Don't like it? Oooohhh, I have no 'empathy' for that either.
Did you notice the numbers I quoted? They've already let half of the prisoners go. Even the U.S. government, which considers these people completely without rights and able to be handled in any way deemed necessary, couldn't think of a reason to keep nearly half of the people they rounded up locked up.
A third, of course, will never be tried and never be released. Which, as I said, seems a waste of taxpayers' money. Shoot them and shoot them now.
Daffy Duck: Shoot him now! Shoot him now!
Bugs Bunny: You keep outta this! He doesn't have to shoot you now!
Daffy Duck: He does SO have to shoot me now!
[to Elmer]
Daffy Duck: I demand that you shoot me now!
-Rabbit Seasoning, 1952
Oh, f*ck you, Rhianna. Me either.
Are you actually running your mouth about the issue without knowing that a bunch of these people are just poor schmucks never did anything to US troops but who were kidnapped, sold to the US government for bounty, hooded, often beaten, thrown into containers, shipped thousands of miles from home, thrown into cages, interrogated, sometimes tortured and left without recourse or any knowledge of whether they would ever see their homes and families again? I'm shocked.
You can go stick your head back up the elephant's ass now.
my 'empathy' doesn't lie with those that kill US troops, blow up women and children in markets, or swear they were "in the wrong place at the wrong time".
Nor would mine be if they had actually, you know, been through at least some sort of trial that produced evidence of their alleged crimes.
But they haven't been, and it doesn't look like they will anytime soon.
So stop already: you have no idea who these people are or what they've done. No one does.
So, do you need Osama to get a trial too? Or can I assume you have decided to withold your empathy based on U.S. intel?
So stop already: you have no idea who these people are or what they've done. No one does.
Someone does or they wouldn't be in Gitmo.
Oh, for God's sake, Rosemary. Why on earth would you take this administration's word for anything? You sound like a complete partisan fool. Every fascist, authoritarian, dictator or cult relies on just such obient blindness. Actually, your blind belief itself is authoritarian.
And as far as those who were fighting a civil war in their own country when US troops decided to stop by, there ought to be a process by which those people are separated from actual al Qaeda. At least, that’s what people who were actually concerned with our national security and competent enough to provide it would do.
Don't like people being held indefinitely without charge or access to representation? Why? You're not a terrorist, are you, Bunky? The President does everything he does to Keep Us Safe, and the less we know about the details, the better.
We have always been at war with Eurasia.
If I didn't know you better, I'd think you were being serious.
If I didn't know you better, I'd think you were being serious.
Damn... I'm just a bit too tired to pull that one off. I hope I'm not slippin'.
At least, Shep bit it. ;-)
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
OK, truth be told, I never met a woman who couldn't make a fool outta me. Guess I only got half of Yellowbeard: