Lifetime Detainment: No Pros, All Cons

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Or, To Torture or Not to Torture: How Is That Even the Question?
by Mark Drolette
www.dissidentvoice.org
January 20, 2005

<snip> A glaring, galling example of the administration’s basement-level baseness is provided in a recent article by Dana Priest of the Washington Post:

“Administration officials are preparing long-range plans for indefinitely imprisoning suspected terrorists whom they do not want to set free or turn over to courts in the United States or other countries…The Pentagon and the CIA have asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for potentially lifetime detentions, including those for hundreds of people now in military and CIA custody whom the government does not have enough evidence to charge in courts.”

Well, where to start? The indefinite imprisonments? The fact that one need only be “suspected” of being a terrorist (as so designated by George Bush; now there’s a comforting thought) to be detained for a “lifetime” because of a lack of “enough evidence to charge in courts”? <snip>

Fortunately, our cat-like elected officials are right on top of this one, ferociously guarding our freedoms. Priest quotes Representative Jane Harman (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, thusly: “The details about the system may need to remain secret.”

That Jane: what a tigress for liberty, huh? <snip>

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Drolette0120.htm

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1. another reason to impeach Bush

because what he is doing violates the Constitution.

[enough]

2. Very good article on this constitutional outrage.

Lots of information gathered together in one place.