minority report preventive detention becoming reality

[elessa]

how can our president condemn the bush administration for ad hoc legal strategy then turn around to suggest reshaping standards to prolong detention for detainees without trial? preventive detention for crimes not committed? construct an appropriate legal regime to make indefinite detention system outside the courts and military commissions?

WTF?

this is wrong. so very, very, very wrong.

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[elessa.livejournal.com]

(as you have no doubt guessed, this is a far more interesting topic than what I'm spending my weekend working on.)

i can tell. ;p

the prez is between a rock and a hard place.

i do not disagree that there are bad people left in gitmo. however, i think by keeping them as long as they have without having had a trial the situation has worsened. the rock and the hard place has gotten harder.

i am also concerned about what the future holds. was the prez only referencing those currently in custody or also anyone who is walking the streets today can be picked up and held indefinitely with no actual crime committed?

there is no easy answer for how to deal with those who are at gitmo. that is a hornet's nest that is stirring emotions in the mideast regardless of what happens to those prisoners.