I think you're overreacting a bit. The actual case involves someone who was in a foriegn country for years, and was in the war zone at the time he was fighting the US.
The ruling says that he was "squarely in teh war zone" and discusses the issue that he hda been out of the US for a long time. On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 05:03:03PM -0800, Tim May wrote: > On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 04:08 PM, Michael Cardenas wrote: > > >http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/01/08/enemy.combatants/ > > > > > > > Fuck the U.S. Fuck it dead. Do it soon. > > This is one of the rulings which completes the shredding of the > Constitution. Every member of that Court should be killed for their > crimes against the Constitution. > > "RICHMOND, Virginia (CNN) -- A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled > President Bush has the authority to designate U.S. citizens as "enemy > combatants" and detain them in military custody if they are deemed a > threat to national security." > > President Nixon didn't like Daniel Ellsberg publishing the Pentagon > Papers? Declare him an enemy combatant, ship him off to a concentration > camp in Gitmo, and deny him access to attorneys. > > And so on, for any form of dissent. > > Fuck the U.S. Fuck it dead. Actually, it died a long time ago. So fuck > its corpse. > -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred "Value judgements are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness." - John Cage [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
