Frost,Frost wrote:Suppose Eric Holder declares you a terrorist and throws you in GITMO. Without having jurisdiction for habeas corpus or even access to a lawyer what are you going to do about it? We can just trust that everyone there deserves to be there right?
With all due respect and hopefully without sounding too antagonistic, I completely and vehemently disagree with your view.
The people of the United States are at WAR. Each and every person is at war.
If as a citizen of the US I should succumb to the actions you describe, I will have the
Constitution of the US as my ally.
However, if I should remain locked in GITMO for an extended period of time, as grievous as this would be, I would simply be a causality of war, not unlike those killed on 911 or the wives and kids of our slain soldiers.
Here is the main point:
The prisoners in GITMO are WAR prisoners and therefore not entitled to the rights of US
citizens.
Here is an example of what happens when you turn them loose:
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — A Saudi man who was released from Guantanamo after spending six years inside the U.S. prison camp has joined al-Qaida's branch in Yemen and is now the terror group's No. 2 in the country, according to a purported Internet statement from al-Qaida.
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