There is a Canadian teenager who has been in Guantanamo for six years for throwing a rock at a soldier in Afghanistan. I don't condone throwing rocks at soldiers, but that seems little disproportionate, esp since the soldier was not injured. I worry about a system that labels children who think they are defending their village as terrorists. Turns out his *father* is a key bad guy. Ah. We have actually kidnapped a child to pressure a parent. That's better, right??
Also, there are a multitude of stories about waiters being detained because they served lunch to an al-Qaeda fighter, taxi drivers being tortured to death at Bagram, and lawyers being detained for months in error. If even one of these stories is true, that is a problem. You're trusting the government again. On 2/29/08, Bruce Sorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again the only people that I see whose civil liberties are being > violated are the ones who are doing something wrong, and at that point > you forfeit these liberties. I believe that the intent of this whole > thing is to speed up the investigative process and not mire it up > waiting for some judge or grand jury issue a subpoena. And let's not > forget that there are leaks all throughout the government, so again if > you run it through legal channels, you risk the perpetrators being notified. > > Dana wrote: > > I don't know the book, but answers like this scare the hell out of > > *me*... why is it that people who are in favor of de-funding the > > government also favor turning our civil liberties over to its tender > > mercies > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:255287 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
