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<< Where's the Special Prosecutor? | Main | More on Increases in Partisanship >> November 02, 2002Bush: No Justice Even Better Than Military JusticeLast year, civil libertarians were appalled that Bush was calling for the substitution of military tribunals for real trials of those captured and accused of terrorism. But the administration has announced that they won't be pushing the idea anytime soon. Good news? Well, not exactly. The administration has fallen in love with indefinite detention without charge down at Guantánamo Bay. The purest human right in the world, the right to have your crime defined has become the norm for this anti-democratic administration. For those fighting for human rights globally, the example can only mean the rise of silent gulags worldwide. Posted by Nathan at November 2, 2002 08:35 AM Related posts:
Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsThe Guantanamo prisoners are under the jurisdiction neither of the laws of war and the Geneva Convention, nor of American law. The precedent for the declaration of "illegal combatants" is one Supreme Court case which has never been invoked before, and which applied to an entirely different situation from al Qaeda in Afghanistan (it was Nazi saboteurs on US soil in WWII). The "in-your-face" attitude of this administration is mindboggling. Posted by: zizka at November 2, 2002 09:59 AM pissing Posted by: roma at August 24, 2004 04:49 AM Post a comment
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