The American Way.

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This entry was posted on Friday, June 13th, 2008 at 10:46 am by Matt Davies.
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7 Responses to “The American Way.”

1. Topgunner June 15th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

   Irony certainly is the centerpiece of political cartoons and commentary.
   That our Supreme Court would endow those who are determined to destroy our values and rights with those rights is the height of irony; though some may say foolishness.
   Either way, well done.

2. Gary McGriff June 16th, 2008 at 1:46 am

   The Supreme Court decision is not “endowing those who are determined to destroy our values and rights with those rights.” The decision simply says that we need to prove that the people we have imprisoned are guilty of the crimes we allege.

   Now it may be true that everyone at Gitmo is trying to destroy this country, but it also may be true that some of them are innocent. We need to prove it one way or the other. And that is what makes us better than the terrorists.

3. Maureen June 16th, 2008 at 10:41 am

   Well said Gary!

   And I always like your work, Matt!

   M

4. Gary McGriff June 16th, 2008 at 6:32 pm

   Thanks Maureen.
   But do you know what is scary? The Supreme Court vote was 5-4 and not 9-0. I’m not sure Justice Scalia is smart enough to sit on the court. His minority opinion is frightening.

5. Fordman June 26th, 2008 at 7:12 am

   Yeah, because all those locked up there were accidently arrested. Look at the last batch of prisioners released from there. Two became suicide bombers, and others were killed in gun fights. They fight as a non formal army but we give the rights of our citizens. Sickning!! Keep your head in the sand Gary, it’s easier to sleep that way.

6. Gary McGriff July 1st, 2008 at 10:28 am

   There have been hundreds of prisoners released from Gitmo, some held for years. Why would the U.S. release anybody if they were all guilty? The fact is that there were hundreds of innocent people rounded up and put away for years for no reason. And then finally Bush’s boys got around to releasing them when they realized their mistake. If that happened to you, Fordman, wouldn’t you hold a few resentments against your captors?

7. Gary McGriff July 1st, 2008 at 11:14 am

   This is from the New York Times. You tell me, Fordman, whose head is in the sand:

   By WILLIAM GLABERSON
   Published: July 1, 2008
   In the first case to review the government’s secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a federal appeals court found that accusations against a Muslim from western China held for more than six years were based on bare and unverifiable claims. The unclassified parts of the decision were released on Monday.

   With some derision for the Bush administration’s arguments, a three-judge panel said the government contended that its accusations against the detainee should be accepted as true because they had been repeated in at least three secret documents.

   The court compared that to the absurd declaration of a character in the Lewis Carroll poem “The Hunting of the Snark”: “I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.”

   “This comes perilously close to suggesting that whatever the government says must be treated as true,” said the panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

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