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To: dirtboy

I think that since the POW in question is an American citizen, that the Administration should be required to present their evidence of Hamadi's complicity with the Taliban and Hamadi's attorneys should have the opportunity to challenge that evidence.

That sounds like treason. If he should be charged with anything, it should be treason. If treason can't be proved, then he should be treated as a POW.

9 posted on 01/28/2003 2:39:32 PM PST by Sparta (Statism is a mental illness)
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To: Sparta
If he should be charged with anything, it should be treason. If treason can't be proved, then he should be treated as a POW.

I think the point is that there should be some kind of due process where the Administration must present the facts that an American citizen had taken up arms against this country, and the citizen in question has the ability to challenge the facts. Otherwise, the precedent is set for an Administration (not necessarily this one) to declare just about ANYONE an enemy combatant, whether or not they actually are, and they have no ability to defend themselves under the Constitution.

If the Administration makes it case, then hose the sumbitch.

11 posted on 01/28/2003 2:44:22 PM PST by dirtboy
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Then let him be charged and tried, instead of kept without due process. Most tyrannical governments, if you do the research, rarely ever charge anyone with anything, they just keep them....forever.
25 posted on 01/28/2003 3:14:18 PM PST by Stavka2
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