A lawyer for the detainees, Tina Foster, said that if the precedent stood, Mr. Obama and future presidents would have a free hand to “kidnap people from other parts of the world and lock them away for the rest of their lives” without having to prove in court that their suspicions about such prisoners were accurate.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Detainees Barred From Access to U.S. Courts
from the NY Times. The Obama administration appealed a lower court decision that these detainees at the US Bagram Air Base had habeas corpus rights and the decision was overturned. More change that you can believe in: