December 10, 2005
Jose Padilla finally charged with a crime
The "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla, an American citizen, has finally been charged with a crime after being held in a military brig for 3 and 1/2 years without ever being charged of commiting a crime. Oh, and that whole "dirty bomb" thing that got him declared an "enemy combatant" in the first place? Not mentioned in the charges.
After years of being denied a lawyer, Then the lawyer being denied access to him for nearly two years, the Department of Defence "allowing" him access to a lawyer, the Supreme Court showing complete cowardace and claiming that a lawsuit was filed incorrectly and an almost total lack of coverage, he is set to get a day in court. I would ask why no one in power has made an issue of this, but I'm afraid I might be declared an enemy combatant and I don't have three and a half years to sit around in a military brig. ..
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Finally! That's really the thing about Bush's administration that made this republican vote for Kerry. I will give no vote to a person that favors indefinite detention without charge for ANYONE. And I can't believe more than half of the people in the US did. Bush really needs to shit or get off the pot.
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He doesn't need to shit or get off the pot. He needs to stop wiping his ass with the Constitution.
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He needs to stop wiping his ass with the Constitution hee hee. Just a timely link to MeFi.
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Crap, if that "piece of paper" crack is true it explains a whole lot. And it makes me a whole lot scaredier. We're in a situation right now where we have precious few checks and balances. Here's hoping the midterm elections will lead to a more balanced government.
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There's no way it's true. CHB isn't much more than a slightly-more-real-looking version of The Onion for lefties.
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I will give no vote to a person that favors indefinite detention without charge for ANYONE. Not sure if I understood you correctly, chimaera. Did you mean that you think some or no people should be subjected to detention without charge? The "anyone" qualifier was sort of confusing.
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Sorry I was unclear. NOBODY should be detained without charge. Unless they are official prisoners of war, and treated according to the full protection afforded them by the Geneva conventions and prevailing international law.
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More info on the strategies behind this and the judicial reactions to this one. Sounds like the 4th Circuit is not amused by the administration's tactics.
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NOBODY should be detained without charge. Okay, that's what I thought you meant. Forgot about the P.O.W. rules in spite of the militaristic labelling scheme of the Gov't of the USA.
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Whoa hang on he is fighting on the gorunds of being a US citizen - David HicKs anybody?
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Oh and why is his confession under military interrogation inadmissable? Did something happen to the Geneva convention?
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I don't think that he is fighting based on being a citizen. I think the fact that he is a citizen just makes it worse. I mean John Walker Lindh who was caught in Afganistan, fighting against America got a quick and speedy trial, and during WWII WIlliam Colepaugh was an American citizen who defected to German, and then came back as a spy for Germany and he got a speedy trial, so why is Padilla in jail for three years, denyed an attourney, and then when he finally IS charged, it isn't even for the thing that supposedly got him kept in military custory for all that thime. I hadn't hear of David Hicks, but if the American governement can hold an American citzen, "captured" in America, then what is to stop them form arresting any of us? I mean at least Hicks was in another country when they caught him. Certainly that doesn't make it right, but damn, what hope is there if our country can hold us for three years without charging us?
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Hell Hath No Fury Like a Conservative Jurist Scorned: The Government's Overreaching in the Case of Jose Padilla
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Justices Decline Terror Case of a U.S. Citizen
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The Supreme Court Denies Review in the Case of "Dirty Bomber" Jose Padilla, But an Unusual Troika of Justices, Including the Chief, Issues a Warning to the Government
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Judge drops Padilla terror charge
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The Bush administration's torture of U.S. citizen Jose Padilla
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In other news: One man still locked up from 9/11 sweeps. Detainee has not been charged, not seen as a threat, but is behind bars.
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Oops.