abaddon wrote:
] Decius wrote:
] ] abaddon wrote:
] ] ] more comentary on the Jose Padilla saga, this one is a
] ] ] puletser (yeah yeah i dont spell) prize winning jurnalist
] ] ] chastising the media for not giving any coverage to the
] ] ] Padilla case...
] ] ]
] ] ] when exactly did the we all deside the government didnt
] need
] ]
] ] ] checks and balances any more...
] ]
] ] Hrm, they have since released information that provides
] ] reasonable doubt that he might have been travelling to
] ] Afghanistan to join Al'Q. Its plausable enough to warrant
] ] detaining him and trying him.
] ]
] ] Having said that, it is critical that these things be done
] out
] ] in the open. The public pressure on this is the reason they
] ] had to go public. Hopefully this will serve as a lesson in
] the
] ] future to those whose family members may be detained without
]
] ] reason. The Internet is your friend. Get as many eyes on the
]
] ] situation as possible. You now have the power to do that.
]
] he may well have actually been up to something, but how would
] we know, he isnt allowed to present his case, he isnt allowed
] a lawyer, he isnt allowed due process of any kind...the
] problem i have with the padilla case isnt that they are
] holding him, its that they are holding him without any
] rights...he's still a US citizen, and as such i can't think of
] an scenerio that would warrent striping him of his right to
] due process...
]
] secrecy is the enemy of freedom...
]
] --Abaddon

Who died and made George W. Shrub god? Why is the current administration somehow above the letter of the law? If the justice department has the goods on Padilla; if he is a terrorist, then try and fry the motherfucker. If not, let him go - AS THE LAW DEMANDS. Why is he STILL detained after nearly a year and not been charged with a crime or even allowed to speak to his lawyer? All because John Ashcroft pointed his finger and said the magic words "enemy combatant". 14 letters and the stroke of a pen is apparently all it takes to strip you and I of our constitutionally guaranteed rights.

Be very afraid...

Laughing Boy

RE: no-one cares about civil liberties or reason 1502-B why i hate people