From Cuba to Illinois for US prisoners?

Sorry...but they don't get the rights of citizens.

Try them in a military tribunal.

Why should a suicidal non-citizen camel jockey get the same rights as I do?

 

Just wow. How much more wrong can you get?

 

I think that what we have here is the latest incarnation of JustChristian-Freedom-alatide.

 

Rights as given in our constitution are limited to American Citizens as far legal enforcement goes within the United States. However, send terrorist to tribunals in no way infringes on anyone's rights.

 

And he aspires to be a lawyer. God help us!

I hope he grows a brain.

 

I'm truly sorry about your uncle.

None of your case citings are even remotely similar to the case at hand, either in the facts or the application of the law.

You have hoisted yourself on your own pitard.

 

I'm no expert on terrorism, but when we're trying to keep terrorists out of the nation's interior, isn't this giving them a very easy way to get inside?

If I try to think like a terrorist, it goes through my mind that someone would purposely try to get a number of people into that prison. Since everyone is so eager to prove they are open and tolerant, I'm sure it would be relatively easy to get people who cling to the Religion of Terrorism hired into that prison system working security.

It's so obvious to me that I must have some humongous logic gap going on here. A government trained and learned in defending this country has to know something that's not crossing my mind.

What is it? What am I missing that makes this a smart and safe move for us? What is going to stop a scenario like what I said from unfolding?

 

Nothing.............

 

This isn't about being smart or safe.

This is about Obama and his cadre showing the world that he is not George Bush - at whatever cost.

You know - so that the world will love us.

 

You're not missing anything. Giving illegal combatants, who make war on our country, citizenship rights iscompletely idiotic and not about being safe and smart.

I agree with targus, it's about being different from Bush, even if it kills them.

 

OK, I'll do that, and you check out the "United States Constitution."

Once again...they are not citizens. They don't get the rights of citizens.

Folks like you that ignore this are endangering our country. Or does that matter to you?

 

They are limited to citizens

 

You reaching with these cases. There is no context here that applies.

 

But it is also plain that Congress long ago agreed to the president's power to convene military commissions (under U.S. Code, Title 10, Section 821). In addition, the president has inherent constitutional power as commander-in-chief to convene such tribunals, an argument acknowledged by Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone in a 1942 opinion. (Stone, writing for a unanimous Supreme Court, declined to set aside the military trial and execution of German saboteurs who had entered the U.S. to destroy war plants.) The president is also authorized by statute to write rules of procedure and proof for military commissions, and to decide whether or not it is "practicable" to adopt the ordinary rules of common law and evidence.



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