What Next at Gitmo?

A blow for Fascism, that's for sure.

Those suggesting that most of the detainees freely admitted they were terrorists against USA(instead of just being like the rest of the world: disgusted at how the US thinks it can treat any no-US citizen as a non-human at will), or after being released they go back to their " terrorist ways", have been completely suckered by the Bush/Cheney admin's network of repetitive liars. I feel sorry for those caught up in the propaganda, you seem to no longer know any better.

The only winner here is Jonathan Hafetz. I don't know if this is Pro Bono work or he's getting his usual fee, but he's going to make millions either way. This is a situation that gives birth to lawyer jokes. All for a group of people whose purpose is destroy the very system that even allows them this press time and the ability to sue their captors. It???s no wonder the rest of the worlds citizens are laughing at ???US???.

The only "winner" here is Jonathan Hafetz. I don't know if this is a Pro Bono case or if he is receiving a fee, but this is the type of situation that gives birth to lawyer jokes. He is going to make millions at the tax payers expense. All for a group of people who's sole purpose is to destroy the very ideals that give them the right to go to "court". No wonder the citizen's of rest of the world are laughing at "US". What a joke....

Holding them in Gitmo for the last number of years has been a total waste of time & money for the most part. Surely there must've been an undisclosed CIA bunker/holding area where these animals could've been 'questioned' in a manner befitting them (ideally somewhere like Israel or Egypt) without having to worry about legal rights...something 98% of those people do not deserve.

If the Bush administration hadn't been looking to use these people as a media center piece , you'd never even know they existed. Yet another fine example of our PR campaign against terrorism.

The Bush administration brought this whole problem down upon itself vis-a-vis Dick Cheney and his cohorts who tried to enhance the executive's power and dared anyone to cross that line. Needless to say the Supreme Court crossed that line, not only scolding the President and a Republican Congress but now giving the Courts a seat at the table regarding national security decisions.

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This is a victory for the terrorists not only do we have to capture them but now we have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they are our enemies. If a US soldier thinks someone is a bad guy thats good enough for me. Are there innocent people in Guantanamo? maybe but I would rather have in custody 200 suspected terrorists and a few innocent people that just happened to arouse the suspicion of our armed services than have to prove everyone is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. I know this sounds un american but we are at war innocents are going to be lost we have to look at the greater good here. The men we have in Gauntanamo want to kill Americans of the people we have released some have already initiated attacks against americans in Iraq and afganistan. I don't feel the risk to our soldiers is worth releasing even one prisoner. If the detainee can prove he is innocent beyond any doubt I feel we should release them obviously but the standards have to be reversed from our normal course of action or Americans will die as a direct result of this ruling.

What's next? Simple: a communist, anti-American judge will release them so that they can go out and kill more Americans.

The suicidal, anti-American desires of the left are killing Americans and will kill us all soon.

Comment: I just want to seem them tried and (hopefully) convicted.
Nevertheless, you'd think that, after so many years, we'd be able build a case against them
Posted By: KYJurisDoctor
I DON'T want them convicted unless they are proven to be guilty.

Idon

Thank God, one of the oldest and most cherished principles of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence has been reaffirmed: The Great Writ, the Writ of Habeas Corpus which allows a prisoner to challenge his incarceration, to require the authorities to prove in a court of law that their confinement is legal or free them in the alternative. And, McSame, right on the heels of Bush, immediately deplored the ruling. These are the people charged with upholding the Constitution and guarding our freedoms. At the same time they did all they could to hold these prisoners on the basis of allegations alone. Some of these prisoners are only in custody because our government paid informants thousands of dollars to inform on others. The result, many who knew no more about terrorist activities than you or I, were arrested and have been incarcerated for as long as seven years without seeing the inside of a courtroom.

I just want to seem them tried and (hopefully) convicted.

Nevertheless, you'd think that, after so many years, we'd be able build a case against them.

While I AGREE with today's majority opinion that "all enemy combatants detained during a war, at least insofar as they are confined in an area away from the battlefield, [but] over which the United States exercises 'absolute and indefinite' control, may seek a writ of habeas corpus in federal court," I also AGREE with Chief Justice Roberts (and his fellow dissenters) that the Writ can be suspended in time of war, such as the war on terror that we find ourselves involved in right now, and that suspension power belongs to Congress, such as Congress has exercised in this case, "as the Constitution surely allows Congress to [wield]."

This question should have been answered long ago. Five years is just too long to wait to finally find out that you could have had a court of law to hear your case under the U.S. Constitution. The majority is right. We don't just use the constitution some of the time. It works even in difficult situations just like this one. We are a country of laws, not men. And the wrong men have been making the wrong illegal decisions for too long now. Come on November.

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