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Saturday, December 30, 2006

"They do not actually believe in fair trials"

glenn greenwald via atrios...
[I]t is ... reprehensible and inexpressibly tragic that the Bush administration continues to claim -- and aggressively exercise -- the power to imprison and punish people without even a pretense or fraction of the due process that Saddam Hussein enjoyed. The Bush administration believes that it has the power to imprison whomever it wants, for as long as it wants, without even giving them access to the outside world, let alone "a fair trial." The power which it claims -- which it has seized -- extends not only to foreign nationals but legal residents and even its own citizens.

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It is truly vile to listen to George Bush anoint himself the Arbiter of Due Process and Human Rights by praising the Iraqis for giving a "fair trial" to Saddam when we are currently holding 14,000 individuals (at least) around the world in our custody -- many of whom we have been holding for years and in the most inhumane conditions imaginable -- who have been desperately, and unsuccessfully, seeking some forum, any forum, in which to prove their innocence.

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The President and his followers -- including the majority of the 109th Congress, which just enacted the Military Commissions Act -- have made unmistakably clear that they do not actually believe in fair trials, literally.

greenwald has repeatedly and forcefully stated his belief that the u.s. is facing the most serious constitutional crisis in its history... i share that view... i am extremely concerned when i see, as seems to be the case today, the critical nature of our situation continuing to fade in the after-glow of the november elections... bush and his minions have made it perfectly clear, in countless ways, that absolutely nothing has changed... unless and until our government returns to the principles enshrined in our constitution and the bill of rights, unless and until the criminals are removed from the white house and held accountable for their actions, the u.s. remains a deeply flawed nation...

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