"The innocent man at Guantanamo" & The Elimination of Habeas Corpus!!!

[leftchick]

He is no doubt one of hundreds innocent at GITMO. Here is a fact most people do not realize including our congress people...

"Almost no one at Guantanamo was captured on a battlefield. Most were sold for bounties."!!!



http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/09/27/the_innocent_man_at_guantanamo/

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Is Abdulnasir innocent?

The usual way we would answer that question -- the way we have answered it for centuries -- is in a habeas corpus hearing. The government would present whatever facts or law justify his imprisonment. Abdulnasir would respond, and a federal judge would decide. This habeas corpus proceeding is the most basic judicial protection we know, and the most ancient. The writ predates our own Constitution.

But now Congress is considering a bill that would eliminate habeas corpus for Abdulnasir and hundreds of others at Guantanamo. It is a strange bill. It contains many pages to ensure that Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged 9/11 murderers will be fairly tried. Almost as an afterthought, it adds a provision that eliminates judicial review for men like Abdulnasir, who will never be tried, indeed, never be charged with anything.

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The other day Senate majority leader Bill Frist spoke of being within ``ten yards of vicious terrorists at Guantanamo." He almost snarled as he said it. I don't know who he saw, but I wish he'd joined me in Camp Echo with Abdulnasir and formed his judgment of this gentle man at the closer quarters from which physicians usually observe patients.

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Is Abdulnasir innocent?

A judge could tell us. The sad thing is this: If the bill passes, it won't matter.

[ShortnFiery]

1. With Waterboarding they'll convict everyone of SOMETHING. eom