Supreme Court grants Guantanamo prisoners ..
Guantanamo Bay prisoners have the right to go before U.S. federal judges to challenge their detention, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday in a stinging setback for the Bush administration.
The ruling came as the controversy continued in Britain over Labour's plan to allow terror suspects to be detained without charge for up to 42 days.
By a 5-4 vote, America’s highest court overturned a ruling that upheld a law President George Bush pushed through the Republican-led Congress in 2006 that took away the habeas corpus rights of the terrorism suspects to seek a judge's review of their detention.
‘We hold these petitioners do have the habeas corpus privilege,’ Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court majority.
Habeas corpus is a centuries-old legal principle, taken from Britain's Magna Carta of 1215 and enshrined in the US Constitution, that demands a prisoner be brought before a court to determine whether he is being held illegally.
Kennedy said Congress had failed to create an adequate alternative for the prisoners held at the U.S. military base in Cuba to contest their detention.
Referring to the threat posed by modern terrorism, Kennedy added that America's Constitution and laws were ‘designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.’
It was not immediately clear whether the ruling would lead to prompt hearings for the detainees, some of whom have been held more than 6 years. About 270 men remain at the island prison, classified as enemy combatants and held on suspicion of terrorism or links to al Qaeda and the Taliban.
If you think Guantanamo prisoners are having a free holiday with free meals then your definately one of those lunatics who has found his way to this forum..
Maybe some anger managemnt courses might help you...hmm maybe they wont...
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
oh my..you have serious issues....
if the United Nations and the 10,000 different human rights organizations actually get off their lazy butts and do something productive for the world then perhaps we could rid it of all the lunatics...several of which have found their way to this forum.
Ok that's four posts in a row...that should ensure that no one else will post on this thread.
why would he want to go back when he is getting three squares a day for free...can't give that up now can he?
perhaps they just don't want him back because they fear that he has been brainwashed to infiltrate (rejoin) Al Qaeda and harm their miscreant cause...can't have that either now can they?
perhaps they just don't want him back because they fear that he has been brainwashed and may want to instill democracy upon his return...can't have that now can they?
Haven't seen it but there is a comic movie out about it:
http://www.haroldandkumar.com/
I have more freedom in my coffin...
Sad
Inhumane....Only word to describe this..
Just because...........
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You can laugh at me all you like because I have Alzheimers, .......but at least I dont have Alzheimers
A new report reveals that a number of prisoners -- even some long ago cleared to leave -- are spiraling into hallucinations, despair and suicide.
Editor's note: In this article, Jennifer Daskal and Stacy Sullivan report -- in the greatest detail published to date -- on the deteriorating mental health of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. The two staff members of the nonprofit group Human Rights Watch produced a new in-depth report published Tuesday by the organization, on which this article is based. They have also contributed to Salon's continuing coverage of U.S. judicial proceedings at Guantánamo Bay.
June 10, 2008 | GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba -- "I feel like I'm being buried alive," said Ahmed Belbacha, a 39-year-old Algerian who has been in Guantánamo since March 2002. He has been cleared to leave the prison camp for over a year, but he can't.
Algeria isn't accepting detainees back home, but even it were, Belbacha is so fearful of being tortured there that he has asked the U.S. federal courts to block his return. But there is no other country willing to take him, and he remains stuck in Guantánamo -- locked in his windowless cell 22 hours a day, with little more than a Koran and single other book to occupy his time.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/10/guantanamo_mental/index.html?source=rss&aim=/news/feature