Where do you get your info from? How the flip do you know that every detainee held at GTMO is a terrorist? How do you know, Ken? Habeas has been around since the Magna Carta, and for good reason. It’s misinformed bludgeon-heads like yourself that allow this current disaster of an administration to rape such rights, long since held near sacred. That’s right, Ken, I said RAPE. Get it? It’s slavish “feed me more talking points, Karl Rove” morons like yourself that are allowing this great country to go swirling down the toilet of misery at the hands of Chimpus. You are PATHETIC and a loser, too, for not having the balls to take a principled stand on the issues that every thinking person with a brain in his or her head in this country has come to realize, comprehend and understand! I intend to hold you personally responsible when our soldiers begin to receive reciprocal waterboard, or similar, treatments. WAKE THE FUCK UP YOU BRAIN-DEAD SLAVISH CHIMP-SUPPORTING UTAHN!

PS. Are you buying property in Central America like Bushco is? If not, you may want to get on the bandwagon before you lose out!

PPS. Gosh, I sure do feel better now. Sorry if I offended you, Ken.

Ken, thank you that we can all now be 100% that citizens of the American Empire are the priveleged elite of the earth in a formal, legal way. Now, let me remind you of the remaining 94% of the people’s of this world. What do you say of them? Are they all “terrorists” or “unlawful enemy combatants?” Perhaps they (the aliens) are all potential terrorist threats? Let us all take a moment and answer these questions for ourselves.

If we are fighting an actual “global war” in a legal sense does that not require application of the rules of war? Geneva Conventions? Rights of prisoners of war to humane treatment? Is there really a war going on here? Oh, yes. In fact, I see we have several wars going on here? Or would they be invasions and military occupations of 2 other nations? Hmmmm. Does this mean that the people of any nation we invade that do not UNCONDITIONALLY SURRENDER become unlawful enemy combatants, Ken? Hmmmm.

How about a contemporary history lesson. August 30th, 2005 the winds came and the sea rose and a day and a half later the floodgates were liberated from their toils. In a matter of 3 days President Bush through his good ol’ pal, Heckuva Job Brown, he had not only left New Orleans to die, he also secured permission to declare MARTIAL LAW and institute through his Naziesque Dept of Homeland Security and Governor Landrau. Suddenly, not only was secret arrest and indefinite detention possible but extrajudicial executions took place throughout the city.

Blackwater Security was hired by the Dept of Homeland Security to “restore law and order” to the city. They are a heavily armed mercenary firm that does contract security work in Iraq and the United States in some cases. They are essentially a privately owned paramilitary with ATF III permits and government authorization to access fully automatic rifles, machine guns, explosives etc.

This “Military Commissions Law” fools us into thinking it is about habeus corpus, protection from self-incrimination, right to legal counsel etc. In fact, Ken the so-called “left” and “right” of the spectrum support the generous “protections” this law offers people the government is hiding away. The problem is not so much that the process is fixed, unjust, abusive and tyrannical. Of course any lover of liberty can see that it is. No, the real problem here is that the Congress is once again covering for the aggregious war crimes and crimes against humanity of the United States.

But most importantly, the Congress has given George W. Bush the authority to detain ANYONE citizen or non-citizen that is an enemy combatant in “circumstances that may require . . .” and detain that person in secret. If the law stands there will be no process to enforce a judicial review. A US citizen may have right to counsel, to confront evidence, not incriminate themselves only if they get to a day in court. If they are secretly detained by all the President’s men then who is going to enforce that?

I don’t agree. The last time habeas corpus was suspended was 135 years ago by President Grant, ironically also on October 17th. Grant was dealing with the aftermath of a rebellion. Since then, the USA has coped with many threats greater than Al Qaeda.

As for imprisonment of US citizens, surely everyone knows about Jose Padilla, born in Brooklyn, NY. He’s been in jail since May 2002, held without charge and allegedly tortured. Fortunately for Padilla, habeas corpus allowed his lawyer to challenge the government’s case.