Asguard
10-23-04, 02:02 AM
Now that your high court has ruled that the detainees in cuba are intitled to lawyers and time alone with them will it mean anything?
will they get them?
will bush just arest the court as illegal combatants?
what will happen next?
It will be as slow a process as the administration can manage.
Woolner, Ann. "Waiting for a Nation of Laws to Follow Its Laws". Bloomberg.com, October 15, 2004. See http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_woolner&sid=axDVZrw7euUw
And now, 3 1/2 months after the highest court ruled, the government is still making some of the same claims that the court ruled out . . . .
. . . . The issue isn't whether to let enemies go free but whether this nation will follow its essential legal principles and try to cull the innocent from the dangerous.
Bloomberg.com (http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_woolner&sid=axDVZrw7euUw)
Note on edit: I am not a lawyer.
otheadp
10-23-04, 10:16 AM
it means America and the world are in greater danger.
they found some guy who was released out of Guatanamo (b/c of public outcry at the inhumanity of arresting enemy combatants as opposed to executing them) went back to Afghanistan and created his own terrorist organization reaking terrorist havoc, blowing shit up, destabilizing Afghanistan, training fresh terrorists, etc.
they don't deserve no lawyer. they deserve something a-la-Bigley
The United States of America has a greater obligation to justice than you understand, Otheadp.
Insanely Elite
10-23-04, 05:12 PM
This decision was a small but crucial 'check' to the imperialist designs of US policy. The executive has manhandled the constitution so horribly the court had to do something. Small wonder the administration is proposing limits on what 'activist judges' can do.
Asguard
10-23-04, 08:59 PM
tiassa i didnt mean to ask lawyers i ment that now they have ALOWED lawyers what does it mean
sorry bad title