[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Leland wrote: > > >> A rose by any other name is still a rose, and a concentration camp by >> any other name, (eg interment camp), is still a concentration camp. >> Many people who were classified as enemy combatant and place in the >> Guantanamo interment camp have been there for years and under the >> current patriot act and other new laws that trump the American >> Constitution, can be held their forever with no requirement to bring >> charges, no hearings, no habeas corpus, and no trail by jury or any >> other kind of constitutional due process, etc, and so I think >> concentration camps are just plan wrong and very Anti-American. >> > > It's thinking like that that gets innocent people killed. If you would like > to take responsibility for one, perhaps they can house one in your house. > It's hard for Americans to comprehend the hatred and fanaticism of some of > these people. Would you prefer we just take them out and shoot them? > > Why not use the traditional criminal justice system to determine guilt. If they are found guilty of a capital offense, they should receive life in prison. If they are found to be guilty of a lessor crime, they should sever time in prison. If they are found to be innocent of any crime, return them to the point from where they were taken. This shouldn't overwhelm the criminal justice system; because, it is my understanding there are only about 500 prisoners being held in Guantanamo.
The prisoners being held at Guantanamo are no more danger than many prisoner being held on death row today, and to think of them as some kind of especially dangerous Supermen requiring handling under special laws is the real danger. I say this should all be handled in the traditional American way, (eg Constitutionally), including the issue of immigration. The USA has been headed in a dangerous direction ever since 9/11. If this continues, America will wake up in a generation, or two generation at most, from now in a completely different world. It will be a world that knows nothing of Democracy or Constitutional guarantees to privacy, freedom, and due process. The American way that we knew just a few six or seven years ago will be gone forever, unless we change direction back to the foundations upon which the USA was built. Regards, LelandJ > -- > Larry Miller > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/mixed > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > message/rfc822 > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
