TheNoNamedOne
06-06-2007, 05:51 PM
By Jane Sutton
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0448039020070604) - Judges in the U.S. war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo dropped all charges against the only two captives facing trial, rulings that could preclude trying any of the 380 prisoners any time soon.
The judges said they lacked jurisdiction under the strict definition of those subject to trial under a law the U.S. Congress drafted last year.
The charges did not affect U.S. authority to hold foreign prisoners at the Guantanamo detention and interrogation camp in southeast Cuba.
But it was the latest setback for the Bush administration's efforts to put the Guantanamo detainees through some form of judicial process. It was forced to rewrite the rules last year after the U.S. Supreme Court deemed the old tribunals illegal. ... [link above to full story]
Shameful to see the US engaging in this indefinite detention of those accused. Whatever happened to rights and due process out of respect for dignity and law? By subverting what we stand for and causing us to change the ideas of liberty that we champion, those intolerant of our system have been successful in changing our system to look more like theirs.
I am glad to see these two mens' charges dropped, and I think it was a brave decision by these judges to do so. It shows that there are men of dignity in the military who are not going to let themselves be puppets within a climate of fear, falsehoods, and lies.
What a farce these trials are and even these military judges see that. Not wanting to be a part of history that unlawfully condemned people, they are putting their boot down, saying, "Not us. We are not going to be the mockery of future history and put an illigitimate stamp on the fate of these wrongfully held and tried persons in a flawed set-up system with the rules written to be stacked against those charged."
Move these defendents over to civilian proceedings, give them a trial by jury, bring forth the evidence, let them face their accuser, and do so in a speedy manner. Or, drop the charges and open the cells, and release them. The US is not about indefinite detention and trampling upon human rights.
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0448039020070604) - Judges in the U.S. war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo dropped all charges against the only two captives facing trial, rulings that could preclude trying any of the 380 prisoners any time soon.
The judges said they lacked jurisdiction under the strict definition of those subject to trial under a law the U.S. Congress drafted last year.
The charges did not affect U.S. authority to hold foreign prisoners at the Guantanamo detention and interrogation camp in southeast Cuba.
But it was the latest setback for the Bush administration's efforts to put the Guantanamo detainees through some form of judicial process. It was forced to rewrite the rules last year after the U.S. Supreme Court deemed the old tribunals illegal. ... [link above to full story]
Shameful to see the US engaging in this indefinite detention of those accused. Whatever happened to rights and due process out of respect for dignity and law? By subverting what we stand for and causing us to change the ideas of liberty that we champion, those intolerant of our system have been successful in changing our system to look more like theirs.
I am glad to see these two mens' charges dropped, and I think it was a brave decision by these judges to do so. It shows that there are men of dignity in the military who are not going to let themselves be puppets within a climate of fear, falsehoods, and lies.
What a farce these trials are and even these military judges see that. Not wanting to be a part of history that unlawfully condemned people, they are putting their boot down, saying, "Not us. We are not going to be the mockery of future history and put an illigitimate stamp on the fate of these wrongfully held and tried persons in a flawed set-up system with the rules written to be stacked against those charged."
Move these defendents over to civilian proceedings, give them a trial by jury, bring forth the evidence, let them face their accuser, and do so in a speedy manner. Or, drop the charges and open the cells, and release them. The US is not about indefinite detention and trampling upon human rights.