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Originally posted by Spanky
Why is that nuts? Did you think the founding fathers ever in their wildest dreams thought that the protections of the constitution would apply to enemy combatants?
The only reason why enemy combatants have any rights is because of the Geneva convention. If the country where the prisoner is from has a problem with how we are treating their citizen they can complain using diplomatic channels.
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I think it's crazy -- and I think the founding fathers would have thought it crazy -- to empower the executive branch to seize and hold innocent people indefinitely without any sort of judicial review. The writ of habeas corpus exists for this purpose. The framers understood the dangers of unbridled power.
And again -- I'm not arguing about what the law is. I'm arguing about what it should be.
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