May I remind you this fellow is not being detained for singing too loudly in the choir. He is an enemy combatant.
You've begged the very question I posed. By what standard has he been classified "an enemy combatant"? What did he do? Where was he captured? What was he doing when he was taken? Is there anything objective behind this attribution, or was it just DOJ's decision that, since we can't indict him, we'll turn him over to the Defense Department, since they don't have to?
We have to have rules and standards about this sort of liberty-abridging decision, or we are not a nation of laws. Politicians and bureaucrats must not be permitted to make such decisions arbitrarily. It's unfortunate that a lowlife like Padilla has to be the test case, but it's been said many times that the true test of one's beliefs about rights is whether he's willing to defend the rights of someone he personally finds noxious.
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what did he do?
I've asked others , but no one responds......