Bullshit trials have never been a part of the laws of land warfare until
after the conflict is over.
Gruss Gott wrote:
>> Weegs wrote:
>> werent they picked up on the battlefield?
>> i mean, jeez... i dont know...
>>
>
> Right now the Bush administration claims that it can come into your
> home ("the battlefield"), take you into custody, and hold you
> indefinitely without process or trial. The issue is jailers that can
> claim anything about you they want without challenge.
>
> Unless *a process* gives you the right to have your side heard in
> front of an impartial magistrate, nobody will ever know who you are,
> where you are, why you're being held, if you'll be able to plead your
> case, or if you'll ever be released. Even if you have volumes of
> uncontestable evidence to your innocence, doesn't matter, because
> nobody will ever know.
>
> Put another way, without process you have a gulag.
>
> If we think America stands for self-evident inalienable rights for all
> men, then a gulag is an abomination.
>
> If we think America stands for some rights sometimes for some
> arbitrary set of people determined by another arbitrary set of people
> when they feel like it, then a gulag is probably no big surprise and
> the inevitable outcome.
>
>
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