Re: Supreme Court to Review Guantanamo Cases

"La N" <nilita2004NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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:"Vince" <firelaw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
:news:xfidnRsajaKC2xvbnZ2dnUVZ_sSmnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
:>
:> "To this end the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any
:> time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned
:> persons:
:>
:> (d) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without
:> previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording
:> all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by
:> civilized peoples."
:>
:

I'll just note that Vinnie doesn't bother to cite the source of this
quote or delineate who the "above-mentioned persons" is intended to
refer to.

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:>
:> That is what makes us different from terrorists and fascists
:>
:> I'd like to think we are part of the "civilized peoples"
:>
:

I'd wish some of you would act more like we are.

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:And, this is the disconnect between what Bush is proclaiming to the world -
:"we are a civilized people, different from terrorists and fascists" and what
:is being practiced.
:

Oh? Just what is being practiced? No one is being executed without
trial that I'm aware of. No one has even had a sentence passed
without said trial.

So I guess we're reduced to your fantasies.

:
:And one of the many reasons that people see Americans
:as hypocrites.
:

Because of your own deluded fantasies? Yes, when you believe what
your ideology wants you to believe rather than reality, you can arrive
at all sorts of stupid conclusions.

--
"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum
of human knowledge."
-- Thomas Brackett Reed
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