[atlaw]

"You/I/we only know what the media and gov tells us about this character. Perhaps they have more on him than we know."

Perhaps the scariest thing I've ever read from a conservative. Perhaps we should just eliminate those backwater ideas of trial by jury, presumption of innocence, and (clearly the most inefficent of all) criminal charges of some kind or another before we throw the bums in jail.

I've never before seen anyone on FR advocate the inerrancy of the government, let alone the media.

[Don Joe]

"Perhaps we should just eliminate those backwater ideas of trial by jury, presumption of innocence, and (clearly the most inefficent of all) criminal charges of some kind or another before we throw the bums in jail."

I'd be real interested in seeing you sell that to Hollywood to make a movie about how to enforce your ideals in battlefield conditions.

"Soldier! You may NOT shoot that enemy combattant! He hasn't even been charged, let alone convicted!"

It would have to be a comedy. A bad comedy.

[jwalsh07]

Hamdi was gathered up in Afghanistan with his fellow Al Qaeda pals. Padilla was picked up at Chicago's O'Hare airport after lying about the 10K in cash he came back from Pakistan with. When he left he had only his hands in his pockets, he lied about the amount of cash and he attended some "Al Qaeda" seminars while on holiday.

Whats significant about this is that AlQaeda declared war on the US in 1993 at the WTC. That fact has gone right over your head ever since.

[donozark]

You are not following the thread. I have already addressed these issues several times. I am not the one that ruled in Ex Parte Quirin. SCOTUS did. But again, those declared "enemy combatants" do NOT have the same rights as US citizen defendants charged in criminal cases.

Again, it is NOT my call. It was SCOTUS, 1942 that differentiated mere citizens from enemy combatants, not I. hell, I wasn't even born...