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This Should Send a Shudder Along Your Spine

July 30th, 2003

I’m not very political and I stay out of the whole ‘warblogging’ crapola, but this article in this morning’s Washington Post worries even apolitical, apathetic ol’ me: Enemy Combatant Vanishes Into a ‘Legal Black Hole’. Quote:

The pivotal question: Can an American citizen, arrested on U.S. soil, be held incommunicado in a military prison indefinitely — without being charged with a crime, without access to a lawyer?

The answer, apparently, is yes. Jose Padilla is a US Citizen who alledgedly had knowledge of an Al Qaeda plan to detonate a “dirty bomb” on US soil. The Bush administration declared Padilla an “enemy combatant,” suspended his rights, and have been holding him without indictment, trial or legal counsel for over a year now.
Chilling.

Greg Other

  1. Joe Grossberg
    August 4th, 2003 at 11:43 | #1
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    A “Legal Black Hole”

    Amendment V to the Constitution: No person shall be … deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of…

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