Bush stated his commitment to "due process" in the sentencing of Saddam Hussein. On Oct. 2, the Torture Bill (a.k.a. the Military Commissions Act) was passed and signed by Bush on Oct. 17 that destroyed habeas corpus and supports torture. In other words, destroyed due process for people we take into custody as "enemy combatants".
People can be imprisoned indefinitely without charges, torture's doors are legally opened, prisoners cannot challenge their imprisonment or treatment, and the promise of a fair trial is now denied. Our court system has also been now explicitly stripped of the power to challenge the treatment and torture of those prisoners.
Hundreds are being tortured by our government, held indefinitely, many without charges, with the flimsiest of evidence, and being denied "due process" of the law. Saddam Hussein, on the other hand, gets the rights denied to them with Bush's blessing.
There is undeniable evidence that Saddam Hussein is guilty. There is questionable, if any, evidence that many of those now incarcerated by our government are guilty of anything.
Bush is not really committed to and respects "due process" of the law.
Just another lie. Just another double standard. Just another act of hypocrisy on a national level.
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But that everyone should have due process.
Even then, perhaps the only reason Saddaam got it was because he would may mince-meat out of Bush had they tortured him.(Didn't he claim to have been tortured before?)
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Saddam is being tried here? The military is its own separate entity. Let me explain, double jepordy is you can not be tried by the same court a person can be tried in multiple states and federal system for the same crime, right. Well if that person also happens to be military they can also be tried by the military's UCMJ (a whole nother list of laws seperate from the ones you and i know so well) So the military prison camp is run by diffrent rules, lame i know.
Do you have a link for the military commissions act?
I think it simply might clarify to the public what has been for a while, but i do hope it does not over ride the rules of engagment and the geneiva convetion rights...if it does we might as well toss the no nuke rule to.
all truths are easy to understand once discovered; the point is to discover them ~galileo
Let's say for instance, you have good intelligence that there is a biological or nuclear weapon heading to America. Would we want to still invoke due process? I really wouldn't. Because if a terrorists or enemy combatant has vital information that pertains to a highly deadly substance that is about to enter America, I would really want that information right now. Because if we give a terrorists, with this information, due process; hundereds, if not thousands, probably would have died, by the time he gets into court. So in some instances due process should be suspended.
If you constantly live by hypothetical situations, you would need to torture every citizen possibly and loosely connected and innocently connected to even slightly possible things and attack every possible nation which harbors ill feelings toward the U.S.A. -- you can't do this. There is no reason why due process has to be banned for years and yet no useful information has come out of it. You have to draw a line. And it is better to draw a line with facts and probable scenarios then hypothetical situations which are endless.
Otherwise, you might as well kidnap the entire county of Afghanistan and Iraq for possible connections to terrorism.
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Hypothethical means that instances have happened similar to it. For instance, the anthrax attacks in 2001-2002. This was a major biological attack. And if someone had information that was related to whom could be attacked next, then due process needs to be suspended for the general good. If you could prevent one attack of anthrax, you probably would save at least ten if not more lives. This would come about because someone is still alive, actually eveyone is still alive. And the persons right can be envoked after he gives us the information.
Also, get a better source. "My Space" is not a reliable or good source. All it is, is opinions and ideas, not facts.
That link is my PROFILE at MySpace, not my SOURCE!
Oi.
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