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Originally posted by taxwonk
Padilla was arrested in the US and Hamadi was on foreign soil. We don't know if either of them had engaged in crimes against the US because they haven't been tried yet. It's even more impossible to say what they may or may not have done, because the federal government has refused to produce terh evidence against them.
What's more, I am agog at the fact that you are seriously raising the darkest moments in American history as justification for going even farther in giving ourselves an even bigger black eye. What's your second act, asserting that allowing us to enslave Blacks again will allow the US to compete with the developing world on labor costs?
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As for Padilla, he was arrested in the United States right when he got off the plane. In other words he was intercepted when he was trying to come back to the US.
As for Hamadi, if someone is a member of a foreign army that is engaged in combat with the United States they don't need to be "tried" to see if they are guilty. Hamadi is a prisoner of war.
If these guys were just hanging out in the US and were arrested, then I might get nervous. But these are not cut and dry cases. Its nice they are being litigated, but I am not expecting a Nazi take over anytime soon.
