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What Happens in Guantánamo Stays in Guantánamo

By Manila Ryce
Published Friday, June 30th, 2006, 1:39 am
Filed under: Human Rights, World: North America, Terrorism, World Issues, Society/Culture, US Politics

Things are good when you’re the most powerful nation in the world. First off, you can pretty much do whatever you please to anyone who has what you want. Secondly, you can camouflage your terrorist acts as fights for freedom. And thirdly, no country in the world will stand up to you. This, ladies and gentlemen, is terrorism in its most refined. A dish both merciless to the livestock, and elegant to the palate.

Luckily, yesterday the US Supreme Court did something no one thought was possible in this day and age: they upheld someone’s human rights! The ruling stated that it is illegal, not only under US law but by the Geneva conventions, to try Guantánamo Bay prisoners.

Of course this didn’t stop Bush from moving forward with his plan to piss on the Constitution to bring these tortured prisoners to “justice”. He said that he will simply seek permission for the trials from Congress instead. Republican Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist, said he’ll be introducing a bill to help the president do just that.

“I will introduce legislation, in consultation with the Administration and my colleagues, that authorizes military commissions and appropriate due process procedures for trials of terrorist combatants,” Frist said. “To keep America safe in the war on terror, I believe we should try terrorists only before military commissions, not in our civilian courts.”

In short, this was just a speed bump in Bush’s path. As Justice Stephen Breyer wrote, “Nothing prevents the president from returning to Congress to seek the authority he believes necessary.”

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