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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 09:34 AM Original message |
Obama Approves Life Imprisonment without Trial for Guantánamo Prisoners |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
1. indefinite doesn't mean forever |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 10:18 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. "indefinite doesn't mean forever" |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 10:43 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. no, really. it doesn't. |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 10:52 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. And absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 11:42 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. If you read beyond my headline... |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 11:45 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Oh, I know.... |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 11:47 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. You're the Robert Frost of Rumsfeld impersonators |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 10:52 AM Response to Reply #1 |
14. i remember once reading something about a "fair and speedy trial" somewhere.... |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 11:44 AM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Exactly. So we don't have to overstate the case with inaccuracies. |
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RedCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 12:43 PM Response to Reply #1 |
26. Just until they die. Then they can be released. Democracy at its finest. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 02:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
28. whether it does or not, it still smacks of fascism |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 03:30 PM Response to Reply #28 |
34. I'm trying to un-spin. |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 02:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
32. It did 3 years ago. |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
2. I have nearly zero knowledge of law and I could see the |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 10:15 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. In fact, the government has gotten more convictions in court |
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jeff47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 10:47 AM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Your first statement is true |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 11:52 AM Response to Reply #2 |
24. And with no or tainted evidence you sometimes have to let the guilty walk. |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 02:30 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. That's my point Bush created the mess by arresting them |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
3. Didn't war criminals face hanging not many decades ago? |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 10:00 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. When did human rights become ancient history? |
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Divernan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 10:07 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. The American colonies had habeas corpus under British rule. |
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RedCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 12:44 PM Response to Reply #4 |
27. the second the SC-5 said corporations are people too. |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
6. My problem with this? |
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whathehell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 10:15 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Yes...Terrile decision. n/t |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 10:54 AM Response to Reply #6 |
15. You're already being held at Gitmo?... |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 10:57 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. In 10 years, it could be any of us using Obama's decision as a precedent. (nt) |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
10. Evidentiary problems has always been the problem. |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
16. Obama, a former constitutional lawyer, is now setting an unconstitutional precedent. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
18. Our own little tropical bastille. nt |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
19. K&R |
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Rageneau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
25. Too bad Hillary is such a racist. |
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Catherina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
30. Oh but why, oh why do they hate us? n/t |
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Catherina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
31. Delete. wrong thread n/t |
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Catherina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
33. Delete, wrong thread n/t |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
35. But..but..he gave such a pretty speech in Cairo about human rights. K&R |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-11 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
36. Obama could fight congress now that it's full of kkkons, this isn't neccessary on its face |
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