Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 18, 2004 03:07 AM
Yeah, right. The Geneva Convention mentioned nothing about this. And all Americans are not being given due process. How about the ones in Cuba?
Looks like an impeachable offense to me, keeping Americans in jail without a lawyer, charges, etc. Creating his own "enemy combatants" definition is purely illegal as well. I don't care what they did, this is about the law. The law is the only thing that protects us citizens from the government.
Even if one of those prisoners had managed to kill one of my friends currently serving in the Middle East, they still should get a trial and due process. Why? Because something compromising our way of life and our due process for our own citizens is to desecrate soldier's graves.
It's an insult to every soldier and patriot who ever fought. It's purely criminal to say your fighting for democracy overseas but to deny it at home. What's next? If I'm declared a terrorist, can I be locked in jail indefinately? If somebody with my name is suspected and I'm stopped at the airport, will I ever have a chance to free myself?
Bush has become a paranoid freak, he's broken the law and he's endangered all of us.
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Re:Every internet connection through one point
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 18, 2004 03:07 AMLooks like an impeachable offense to me, keeping Americans in jail without a lawyer, charges, etc. Creating his own "enemy combatants" definition is purely illegal as well. I don't care what they did, this is about the law. The law is the only thing that protects us citizens from the government.
Even if one of those prisoners had managed to kill one of my friends currently serving in the Middle East, they still should get a trial and due process. Why? Because something compromising our way of life and our due process for our own citizens is to desecrate soldier's graves.
It's an insult to every soldier and patriot who ever fought. It's purely criminal to say your fighting for democracy overseas but to deny it at home. What's next? If I'm declared a terrorist, can I be locked in jail indefinately? If somebody with my name is suspected and I'm stopped at the airport, will I ever have a chance to free myself?
Bush has become a paranoid freak, he's broken the law and he's endangered all of us.
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