According to this piece in The Economist,

Two in every three people on the planet—some 4 billion in total—are “excluded from the rule of law.”

But not those on U.S. soil. Even at Camp Delta.

I love Guantanamo!

Margie,

We have to hide the sources, techniques and intelligence we used to track them down in the shadowy world in which they live. We have to provide information, names and other irreplacable intelligence to their legal teams. Given the outright treasonous nature of the left wing bar (like collaborator Lynn Stewart)and a corrupt press that defines avant garde cool as doing anything to undermine the country so they’ll look good to their euro buddies and maybe get invited onto the Daily Show...I can’t say I blame the serious people for not trusting our OJ legal system to act responsibly and protect those who’ve mistakenly assumed that if they risked their lives to collect the information, their country would actually appreciate and protect they and their families from the dangers of having their picture on the front page of the NYTimes.

I like this quote from the big UN confab discussed above that included Justice Kennedy…

“Later, people will find that the home they live in, the land they farm, or the business that they start, is not protected by legally enforceable property rights.”

So the next time you hear about some little old ladies being Kelo’d off their land so a city council can sell it to developers to build a gated community on, remember that line and remember that Kennedy sided with the left wing of the court to pass it.

We offer our citizens a boatload of failsafe mechanisms and “proofs” designed to insure that if the criminal justice system fails, it errs on the side of protecting the alledged criminal.

If we extend all those legal technicalities to Gitmo detainees, folks who were detained in the heat of battle, folks who have never been the subject of police investigation, just bad guys rounded up or surrendered while firing on our troops, will suddenly find a much higher burden of proof is required to convict them.

I’m not sure this latest development will work that way. Have not researched it.

I only know the bottom line is that because we may not have the goods on some of these people they might get out on pure technicalities and kill U.S. citizens as a result, like you and me.

All for the sake of legal exercises and our much vaunted pride in our system.

I’m not saying you are wrong. Only saying there “might” be a big, big, big, risk in doing it this way. Maybe there is a reason why military law exists.

Just maybe Gitmo was done right the first time even if Abu Grahib was not. Hard to believe, I know.

This was an eye-opening article! How lucky we are in this country and don’t count our blessings nearly enough.

There is law and then there is military law, Bart. Not comparable. One is rooted in justice, the other in the supposed necessities of security. Once Uncle gets his hands on you, you don’t count as an individual, your guilt or innocence doesn’t matter much. Only the threat that you might pose. Open the courts to all U.S prisoners! What do we have to hide?

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