Psycho-Cannon
06-25-03, 03:23 AM
That seems to be the choice being given to anyone arrested and charged as a "terrorist" no matter how innocent or glaringly false the accusation.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jun2003/marr-j25.shtml
Bush invokes “enemy combatant” rule against defendants
In the wake of a federal appeals court ruling earlier this month affirming the US government’s right to conduct secret arrests, the Bush administration has announced a series of measures that significantly escalate the police-state powers it has assumed in the name of a “war on terrorism.”
On June 23, Bush signed an order declaring Ali S. Marri an “enemy combatant.”
The designation of Marri as an enemy combatant denies him the right to a trial, placing him in legal limbo, without the right to a lawyer or the right to answer charges and evidence brought against him. He is subject to indefinite detention in a military brig, with the possibility of being brought before a military court at any time. Such a drumhead proceeding could result in a death sentence, with no right of appeal.
In a separate action, the government announced June 20 that Iyman Faris, a Columbus, Ohio truck driver and naturalized US citizen from Kashmir, pled guilty in a closed-door proceeding to two counts of aiding a terrorist organization, after having waived his right to a trial. Faris had been arrested, detained and charged in secret.
Government sources told reporters for both the New York Times and the Washington Post that Faris agreed to plead guilty and face a possible 20-year sentence after he was threatened with being designated an enemy combatant and turned over to the military.
The action against Ali S. Marri marked the first time the Bush administration has stopped an ongoing judicial process by dropping criminal charges and declaring a defendant an enemy combatant.
[/I]and even those designated as witnesses not criminals or terrorists meet the same treatment
Arrested in December 2001, Marri, married and a father of five, was held incommunicado for a year as a “material witness”.
How far are they going to have to go before this is TOO FAR for most Americans and indeed the world?
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jun2003/marr-j25.shtml
Bush invokes “enemy combatant” rule against defendants
In the wake of a federal appeals court ruling earlier this month affirming the US government’s right to conduct secret arrests, the Bush administration has announced a series of measures that significantly escalate the police-state powers it has assumed in the name of a “war on terrorism.”
On June 23, Bush signed an order declaring Ali S. Marri an “enemy combatant.”
The designation of Marri as an enemy combatant denies him the right to a trial, placing him in legal limbo, without the right to a lawyer or the right to answer charges and evidence brought against him. He is subject to indefinite detention in a military brig, with the possibility of being brought before a military court at any time. Such a drumhead proceeding could result in a death sentence, with no right of appeal.
In a separate action, the government announced June 20 that Iyman Faris, a Columbus, Ohio truck driver and naturalized US citizen from Kashmir, pled guilty in a closed-door proceeding to two counts of aiding a terrorist organization, after having waived his right to a trial. Faris had been arrested, detained and charged in secret.
Government sources told reporters for both the New York Times and the Washington Post that Faris agreed to plead guilty and face a possible 20-year sentence after he was threatened with being designated an enemy combatant and turned over to the military.
The action against Ali S. Marri marked the first time the Bush administration has stopped an ongoing judicial process by dropping criminal charges and declaring a defendant an enemy combatant.
[/I]and even those designated as witnesses not criminals or terrorists meet the same treatment
Arrested in December 2001, Marri, married and a father of five, was held incommunicado for a year as a “material witness”.
How far are they going to have to go before this is TOO FAR for most Americans and indeed the world?