Comments on: Are you an enemy combatant? http://jdallen.org/politics/are-you-an-enemy-combatant/ "To Bigotry No Sanction, To Persecution No Assistance" Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:15:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Leahy on the Detainee Treatment Act » The Allen Almanac http://jdallen.org/politics/are-you-an-enemy-combatant/#comment-1094 Leahy on the Detainee Treatment Act » The Allen Almanac Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:51:26 +0000 http://jdallen.org/politics/are-you-an-enemy-combatant/#comment-1094 [...] Every American should read this statement from Sen. Leahy on Sen. Specter’s amendment to the torture bill. The Specter-Leahy-Dodd Amendment To Strike Section 7 Of The Military Commission Bill would have struck the provision regarding habeas review from the DTA. If we vote today to abolish rights of access to the justice system to any alien detainee who is suspected – not determined, not even charged, but just suspected — of assisting terrorists, that will do by the back door what cannot be done up front. That will remove the check that our legal system provides against arbitrarily detaining people for life without charge and, for that matter, could make any limits against torture and cruel and inhuman treatment obsolete because they will be unenforceable. We will have removed the mechanism the Constitution provides to check Government overreaching and lawlessness. If this bill became effective, it would make it impossible for aliens ever to challenge and prove such abuses. [...] […] Every American should read this statement from Sen. Leahy on Sen. Specter’s amendment to the torture bill. The Specter-Leahy-Dodd Amendment To Strike Section 7 Of The Military Commission Bill would have struck the provision regarding habeas review from the DTA. If we vote today to abolish rights of access to the justice system to any alien detainee who is suspected – not determined, not even charged, but just suspected — of assisting terrorists, that will do by the back door what cannot be done up front. That will remove the check that our legal system provides against arbitrarily detaining people for life without charge and, for that matter, could make any limits against torture and cruel and inhuman treatment obsolete because they will be unenforceable. We will have removed the mechanism the Constitution provides to check Government overreaching and lawlessness. If this bill became effective, it would make it impossible for aliens ever to challenge and prove such abuses. […]

]]> By: black sheep http://jdallen.org/politics/are-you-an-enemy-combatant/#comment-1077 black sheep Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:19:35 +0000 http://jdallen.org/politics/are-you-an-enemy-combatant/#comment-1077 It goes deeper than this if you look a little more distant into the future. The next step is jailing political dissidents that rebel against the one party system masquerading as two. If you participate, you can easily be labelled as "supporting hostilities against the U.S." It goes deeper than this if you look a little more distant into the future. The next step is jailing political dissidents that rebel against the one party system masquerading as two. If you participate, you can easily be labelled as “supporting hostilities against the U.S.”

]]> By: Billy http://jdallen.org/politics/are-you-an-enemy-combatant/#comment-1014 Billy Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:00:20 +0000 http://jdallen.org/politics/are-you-an-enemy-combatant/#comment-1014 "materially supported hostilities against the United States" Aha, that means all taxpayers then? By paying taxes you prolong the war in Iraq witch in turn creates more terrorists. “materially supported hostilities against the United States”

Aha, that means all taxpayers then?

By paying taxes you prolong the war in Iraq witch in turn creates more terrorists.

]]> By: Mouse http://jdallen.org/politics/are-you-an-enemy-combatant/#comment-1007 Mouse Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:39:17 +0000 http://jdallen.org/politics/are-you-an-enemy-combatant/#comment-1007 Whats Next to nail us, our religions Whats Next to nail us, our religions

]]> By: twincats http://jdallen.org/politics/are-you-an-enemy-combatant/#comment-984 twincats Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:56:51 +0000 http://jdallen.org/politics/are-you-an-enemy-combatant/#comment-984 Hello, Big Brother... Hello, Big Brother…

]]> By: Sara http://jdallen.org/politics/are-you-an-enemy-combatant/#comment-983 Sara Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:03:14 +0000 http://jdallen.org/politics/are-you-an-enemy-combatant/#comment-983 Welcome to our future. Welcome to our future.

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