SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus

Urbane Guerrilla · 07-04-2008, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by flaja

You have been shown time and time again that legal due process rights are and have been extended to non-citizens that are subject to U.S. law.

The flaw in the argument here is that POW non-citizens (these being de facto if not altogether de jure POWs) aren't reckoned by anyone anywhere as being actually subject to their captor nations' laws.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-04-2008, 03:09 PM

That's true, and the reason POWs treatment was addressed by the Geneva Convention. The wrinkle is Bush saying these are not POWs but a new class, called "illegal combatants". Being non-POWs, that makes this new class civilian criminals and subject to the laws of the "host"

nation.

07-04-2008, 03:09 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	That's true, and the reason POWs treatment was addressed by the Geneva Convention. The wrinkle is Bush saying these are not POWs but a new class, called "illegal combatants". Being non-POWs, that makes this new class civilian criminals and subject to the laws of the "host" nation. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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