rssSen. Sessions Wants Indefinite Detention for Terrorism Detainees
Friday, March 12, 2010 at 1:16 pm
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Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) – last seen slandering Justice Department lawyers and then distancing himself from Liz Cheney’s similar slanders — goes way further than Sen. Lindsey Graham’s objections to a civilian trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He writes in a New York Daily News op-ed:
According to the 2009 Military Commissions Act, foreign terrorists violating the rules of war are “unprivileged enemy belligerents” and thus eligible for indefinite military detention. This applies to both terrorists captured overseas and those who infiltrate our borders. Moreover, the legislation included an amendment I offered which explicitly states that Al Qaeda operatives are by definition “unprivileged enemy belligerents,” who can be detained and tried by the military.
So on the presumption that the third sentence here doesn’t contradict the first, Sessions is saying that al-Qaeda detainees should just be held on an indefinite basis by the military. Adam Serwer, in a related context, reminds that the courts have consistently ruled — as with the habeas cases — that detainees have the right to challenge their detention. As much as Sessions wouldn’t like that to be true, a new indefinite detention system will immediately be hit with court challenges — challenges that will probably succeed.
The question then becomes: If the White House takes Graham’s deal to trade a civilian trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for closing Guantanamo, does that forestall a push from Sessions (and John McCain and Joe Lieberman) for indefinite detention — or pave the way for it?
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Comment posted March 23, 2010 @ 3:16 pm
Guess what Sin~netor Jeffery Sessions, we don't allways get what we want. Any social standing organization that designs a way to infiltrate government structure to kill/incarcerate/harm their opposition/subjects/citizens is a violation of legal ethics overstepping their legal/constitutional/bounds by building a function on lies/deceit/hype/media advertising is unlawful action against their own populous and will be stopped. Indefinite gulag of humanity for a designed structure through theses measures will be proved and the structure will be shown to be worm holes in their own minds and the responsibility will be shown to be their thinking, not the purported lies/deceit/hype/media advertising used by them. This law will not stand the test. You will be stopped at the gate and sent to prison for lies. Go back to SS tactics? NOT! your rain of terror is over!
Comment posted March 27, 2010 @ 8:35 pm
They don't focus on sex offenders they target them. Look at the websites logo and see if it’s not true and the abuse is staggering like cruel kids with magnifying glasses. Keep this law and watch how people will feel about proponents of this law. You know the books are changing in the schools and the old out dated lies will not be there to teach anymore. The sex offender next door could be you best choice for watching your kid but would they? Hell no! Duping a nation into believing what we think we know through leaders with agendas while all the time feeding into design by who? Don't say there were no warnings from day one. My movie will come out. It will be like any other movie where the writer/editor will tell you what they think you need to know. Unfortunately some have tried to do that for years only to be ignored, called tin foil headed lunatics or just drowned out by the ones getting those nine hundred thousand dollar yearly pay checks. Now the ramification of the actions will not be ignored and, not being allowed to target people will make everyone safer unless it’s to target the source not the distraction from the real problem, but then where would religion be? Dump the law and the proponents of it now. Running far to many years’ have been the old Lunsford tapes or Couey smears/fears tactics from yester years won’t cut it anymore when every one can see your bulbous heads. See how many parents and neighbors run over children with their cars killing them apposed to the touch of a parent changing a dipper, or kissing their kid. Can you say involuntary man slaughter!; Slaughter house rules need new rules now! The people pushing these laws are taking over your wallet and your country and selling a mix bag of B**lS**t laced with larceny and their not even in this country. Look at Jane Harmon and her involvement with who? As the world turns so does the tide when its black/red and full of poison like these laws are when everyone knows already you don’t care about laws just your worthless agenda to kill people you don’t like, [see (a serious man the movie)].you want to put someone in a cell after the local yokle just took his wife? What are you?
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