Archbishop of Canterbury attacks Cuba prison camp

[Benbow]

The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched a scathing attack on Guantanamo Bay, branding the US prison camp an "extraordinary legal anomaly". Dr Rowan Williams said holding people who had not been found guilty or allowed access to proper legal channels set a dangerous precedent. ...

"I think what we've got in Guantanamo is an extraordinary legal anomaly creating a new category of custody with prisoners," he said. "Now precedents matter in law, nationally and internationally. Any message given, that any state can just over-ride some of these basic habeas corpus-type provisions, is going to be very welcome to tyrants elsewhere in the world, now and in the future. "Once again, words have consequences, policies have consequences. What, in 10 years' time, are people going to be able to say about a system that tolerates this?"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4775446.stm

[tatertop]

1. Nobody will listen. Bush don't care.

However, you can expect a scathing rebuttal from lieberman
in the near future

[daleanime]

2. But why are so few people...

in the public eye rising their voices about this. If any other county in the world was doing this the U.S. would be the first to object.

[WhiteTara]

3. because torture is so abhorrent

that the apathetics turn away...or it has been so popularized by kill and grin movies that the apathetics think that like the movies it isn't real...JMHO

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. The title makes it look like Cuba runs the camp. Send BBC an e-mail here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_4030000/newsid_4032600/4032695.stm

But politely, please. There is a sizeable probability it was a honest mistake.