Bush III: Obama Denies Guantanamo Detainees Had Constitutional Protections - Sides With Rumsfeld (soldiers, suspected)
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WASHINGTON -- In a victory for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and 10 high-ranking military officers, the Supreme Court announced Monday it will not hear an appeal brought by four former Guantanamo Bay detainees who claim they were tortured and were trying to sue the people they blame for their alleged mistreatment.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan refused to concede the torture allegations and defended the lower court's immunity analysis. Furthermore, Kagan says "it was not clearly established at the time (the plaintiffs) were detained at Guantanamo Bay that they had the constitutional rights they claim were violated."
Aint no way the "law" is going to side against elderly white males with over 30 years experience in U.S. government and it does not matter what evidence is produced. There is no telling how many people have been murdered in U.S. custody but we know thousands have been tortured.
There is one university that has used the FOIA to determine that three detainees in GITMO that were called "suicides" all had rags shoved down their throats prior to their deaths. One of the three had a release date scheduled in a few months.
What does the white males have to do with this at all?
PROVE TO US ALL that thousands have been tortured. So far, no evidence shows that a single person was ever tortured.
How do you know a black male did not do the so called torturing you believe happened?
WASHINGTON -- In a victory for former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and 10 high-ranking military officers, the Supreme Court announced Monday it will not hear an appeal brought by four former Guantanamo Bay detainees who claim they were tortured and were trying to sue the people they blame for their alleged mistreatment.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan refused to concede the torture allegations and defended the lower court's immunity analysis. Furthermore, Kagan says "it was not clearly established at the time (the plaintiffs) were detained at Guantanamo Bay that they had the constitutional rights they claim were violated."
Beheading someone because they are an American is not as important as worrying if you have rights or not. Wonder if Daniel Pearl was asked if it is ok to film him first being murdered.
...and our soldiers are killing them on the battlefield. Your situation is a red herring since their execution is not torture for information. You cannot simply ship people around the world and torture them the way you'd like. Nope.
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Rules are out with this enemy.
What if the detained is not really an enemy? Now you've made 10 more enemies as a result of this innocent's death.
What does that have to do with capturing and detaining terrorists who are not even U.S. citizens?
It was "ok by you". Whether it's ok by you or not means nothing, no offense. It is as irrelevant as asking whether it's "alright by me" that your personal property be confiscated. There are rules of warfare with regards to prisoners and they will be followed.
One of the few bright spots of Obama winning in 2008 was to p*ss off the neo-con RINOs. Not that you folks have as much reason to be p*ssed off since he's adopting many of Bush's strategies.
What I don't get is why would it have been illegal to line most of these guys up against a wall and shoot them in the head after they were captured?
Shame you were not living in Germany in the 1930's, you would then have your answer.
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