Comments on: 14,000 Held In Overseas U.S. Prisons

Prisoners From Iraq, Afghanistan Held Beyond Established Laws

[cantshutup]

"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of state and corporate power" - Benito Mussolini

[shirms]

What has happened to the America I believed in? Perhaps it never existed? I was always proud of being an American with its system of laws and separation of powers and a Constitution with its Bill of Rights and Freedom of Religion and Separation of Church and State and the idea that America did not believe in attacking any nation that had not already attacked us. I also thought that our leaders were mostly honest and believed in our form of government. Our leader boasts of his being a Christian and then behaves in a most un Christ-like way. If Jesus were here today he would probably be in one of Bush's secret prisons being tortured for his beliefs.

[JP.]

In the UK we take freedoms very seriously, we have seen our courts of appeal exorcised upon the question "If evidence gained by the application of torture is obtained by a third party that has no conection with the British State is it admisable in a British court"? The question was brought forth by the way that terror suspects have been treated here.

The answer is no, nor should we hold suspects without trial on the order of a politician......but we do. We have thrown away three hundred years of personal freedom in less than five years to aid the fight against terror.
The terrorist is not in Iraq or Afghanistan, the terrorist is within.

JP.

[drgoodwin12]

Any goverment must have probable cause to detain any individual for an extented period of time.The Geneva Convention and the Supreme Court both say so.If you were held against your will for 6mths.,not charged and your family not notified ,how would you feel about those who have imprison you? The war on terror must abide by guidlines set forth in the Geneva Convention and the U.S. Supreme Court.These terrorist are no different than the Vietcong who did not abide by the rules of the Geneva Convention or the Nazis(pre Geneva convention)however responding to them in the same manner makes us more like them and recruits more of them.This is slowly becoming a religous/tribal war and can escalate out of control.If we truly want to earn the worlds respect (most of it we have lost0 then we have to abide by the laws.