Why I defend "terrorists" (open letter to Cully Stimson, dep. Sec of Defense)

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[Rick.Donaldson]

Yeah? So?

[Past Your Eyes]

Great. A proud lawyer. What a frikkin snake in the grass.

[Yo-Yo]

Hey, every terrorist is entitled to a first class defense, followed by a first class hanging.

[MPJackal]

"the partners set aside a substantial portion of the firm's profits to pay for my trips to Guantánamo and my translation costs, just as they pay for my colleagues' fight for clean drinking water in the lower-income neighborhoods of D.C."

The difference is in the DC case the plaintiffs sought help. In this case you are an ambulance chasing POS in search of publicity. But I will agree with the idea that we should not take prisoners, NONE.

[MrB]

"Enemy/Illegal Combatant" status is not a conjuration by the Bush admin to "avoid" anything.

It's the consequence these bastards face for not putting on a uniform and complying with the basis of the Geneva convention requiring the separation of combatants from civilians.

[RacerX1128]

what a slithering, side-stepping POS

[jbwbubba]

Why don't you tell us what Corporations you deal with Big shot?

[Lunatic Fringe]

He makes a couple of good points... two of his clients were released, no explanation or apology. I have often suspected that a few of these guys were probably in the wrong place at the wrong time and were being held for no reason. That sucks.

As for the terrorists down there, put them on trial. I doubt after being held for 5 years they have any significant intel to give us.

[weegee]

Are you required to read a terrorists his rights in the battlefield before you pull the trigger?

[weegee]

At least a couple guys went back to the battlefield after they were released.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

"The evil was of a deeper, subtler sort; so elusive, so intangible, as to defy clear, definite analysis in words. We all experience such things at some period in our lives. For the first time we see a certain individual, one who the very instant before we did not dream existed; and yet, at the first moment of meeting, we say: "I do not like that man." Why do we not like him? Ah, we do not know why; we know only that we do not. We have taken a dislike, that is all."
-- Jack London, "White Fang"

[VeniVidiVici]

Yup. Just honest, hard working, foreign citizens we pulled off the beaches of Greece to go serve time in Gitmo.

[Lunatic Fringe]

All the more reason to start putting them on trial. The adversarial process would greatly help in determining who are the real bad guys and who got picked up by mistake.

[encm(ss)]

Citizens of the United States have rights.
Our enemies do not. End of trial. Now hang 'em high.

[Gritty]

There is a widespread belief, as well as a need to believe, that the men we're holding in Guantánamo must be bad people.

This lawyer ought to be in jail along with the inmates. He's just as dangerous, maybe more so.

He is capable of more serious damage to us than if he wore a suicide belt and carried an AK-47. He's a terrorist with a law degree instead of a gun.

[Gritty]

[LSUfan]

Interesting that this guy feels so strongly about defending the enemy but can't be bothered with the Haditha Marines...

[Stone Mountain]

Apparently, Curly apologized for his remarks:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769597/posts

[slapshot]

We should have a couple of old time Chicago or NYC constables and detectives on the Gitmo Staff. Problems with a "guests" behavior? Send our Chicago consultants to investigate and problem solved. Also they would have our "residents" singing like girl scouts at a campout in record time.