The Boston Globe's view on habeas corpus
apropos of skadi's post the other day, Humanity gone wanting in the Senate, today's boston globe editorial condemns the senate's unconscionable move and calls for the vote to be rescinded...
yes... absolutely... this is indeed one of the very rights we consider precious and that we send our troops to face possible death to save... as a country, we need to be able to look ourselves in the mirror every morning...
If there is nobody in detention who can be convicted of anything without special kangaroo courts, then the real terrorists have indeed won, for we will then have abdicated all moral authority. Please contact your senators at once to tell them to support the Bingaman amendment.
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People in the custody of the federal government should not be without basic human rights. The Senate needs to rescind its vote last week that would prevent 750 so-called "illegal combatants" at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from appealing their imprisonment in federal court.
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US troops are fighting to safeguard the United States, with its guarantees of personal liberty, not to have civil rights limited in the name of national security. Habeas corpus is a venerable principle of Anglo-American law under which prisoners can challenge their status in court. Congress has the power to limit it under extraordinary circumstances. The early phase of the Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus to maintain Washington's lifeline to the North, met that criterion. The war on terror, for all its importance, does not.
yes... absolutely... this is indeed one of the very rights we consider precious and that we send our troops to face possible death to save... as a country, we need to be able to look ourselves in the mirror every morning...
RESTORE HABEAS CORPUS.
Tell your Senators to SUPPORT Bingaman Amendment 2517!
Tell your Senators to SUPPORT Bingaman Amendment 2517!
If there is nobody in detention who can be convicted of anything without special kangaroo courts, then the real terrorists have indeed won, for we will then have abdicated all moral authority. Please contact your senators at once to tell them to support the Bingaman amendment.
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posted by profmarcus at
11/14/2005
