ALERT!
June 28, 2004
BBC
Supreme Court OKs Detention of US Citizens Without Trial
Overturns presumption of innocence
... the Supreme Court decided that US citizens designated as "enemy combatants" could be detained without trial - but that those held also had the right to challenge their detention in US courts...
[In other words, any American designated by Bush as "enemy combatant" is now guilty until proven innocent!]
AP
By ANNE GEARAN
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled narrowly Monday that Congress gave President Bush the power to hold an American citizen without charges or trial, but said the detainee can challenge his treatment in court.
The 6-3 ruling sided with the administration on an important legal point raised in the war on terrorism. At the same time, it left unanswered other hard questions raised by the case of Yaser Esam Hamdi, who has been detained more than two years and who was only recently allowed to see a lawyer...
[How long will you go down for, how much torture will you endure, before you get your day in court? The US constitution is now officially a dead letter. Welcome to Fascism.]
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there is no difference between this horrible decision and one in which it would be perfectly legal for a government to torture, abuse, or use cruel and unusual punishment against a citizen, so long as that citizen could challenge the torture, the abuse, or the cruel and unusual punishment in court.
this is SICK.
law is not politics. law is not politics. citizens' inalienable rights leave little to no room for compromise. but this is just that. a fucked compromise, a forced and totally unneccessary "compromise" of the kind explicitly warned about by ben franklin hundreds of years ago. how hard can it be to understand the infinite wisdom in what he said so simply?
sick and broken, watch the justices, the congress, the senate and the executive branch piss on our constitution. oooh how this is the golden age of america's right wing, how they have wanted for soooo soooo long to be rid of civil rights, to put a stake in it's heart, to stab and hack away at it piece by piece until there is nothing but empty words left...
fuck them all.