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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
 Posted - 06/29/2006 : 09:56:52
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13592908/
SCOTUS rules Gitmo prosecutions illegal, holding them as civilians and in violation of the Geneva Convention.
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Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
Brother Cutlass of Reasoned Discussion |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/29/2006 : 14:30:57 [Permalink]
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Thank goodness! I wasn't sure at all sure that this Supreme Court would enforce the laws of the land and international treaties that the US has signed. This now provides a framework for finally getting the fates of these detainees resolved. I suspect that any legitimate legal courts of justice (which the US is still capable of providing) will result in some detainees being given long sentences, some walking free, and some receiving sentences of "time served" on lesser charges. That's the kind of mixed bag one would expect with so many detainees brought from so many venues.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2006 : 01:50:04 [Permalink]
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Interesting they let Presidential powers creep until it hits home. Sort of a wake up call that the courts are in the "balance" equation and not some side show.
I am disgusted more people are not outraged about this administration's abuse of arrest and torture without trial or anything. Why is it such a sleeper issue? To me, it's one of the most frightening things these guys are doing. |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9696 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2006 : 15:06:53 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by beskeptigal
I am disgusted more people are not outraged about this administration's abuse of arrest and torture without trial or anything. Why is it such a sleeper issue? To me, it's one of the most frightening things these guys are doing.
I'm outraged, but no matter how much I'm shouting over here, it's not heard across the Atlantic.
At least one Swedish citizen was released last year. We don't know if there are more locked up over there. |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2006 : 16:20:24 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
I am disgusted more people are not outraged about this administration's abuse of arrest and torture without trial or anything. Why is it such a sleeper issue? To me, it's one of the most frightening things these guys are doing.
I'm outraged, but no matter how much I'm shouting over here, it's not heard across the Atlantic.
At least one Swedish citizen was released last year. We don't know if there are more locked up over there.
It's not the distance, nor your nationality that keeps you from being heard, Mab. US citizens right here are having no success in being heard, either.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2006 : 15:26:56 [Permalink]
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I'm outraged, but no matter how much I'm shouting over here, it's not heard across the Atlantic.
I live here, and I feel the same way.
55% of the country is just apathetic, and 22% (the ones who voted for this asshole) are cheering him on. Leaves the remaining 22% of us sitting here feeling drowned out. No matter how loud we shout, it doesn't make an impact on the willfull ignorance and rampant apathy.
(all statistics approximated, but slightly more than half of the citizens of this country don't vote)
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2006 : 21:27:16 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
I am disgusted more people are not outraged about this administration's abuse of arrest and torture without trial or anything. Why is it such a sleeper issue? To me, it's one of the most frightening things these guys are doing.
I'm outraged, but no matter how much I'm shouting over here, it's not heard across the Atlantic.
At least one Swedish citizen was released last year. We don't know if there are more locked up over there.
Actually, thank goodness for Europe. The EU is the only place left for public outrage at Bush's horrendous policies. The rest of us are drowned out by the corporate controlled media. |
| Edited by - beskeptigal on 07/02/2006 21:28:46 |
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