al-qaeda website, and how they keep al-neda running
Topic: War on Terrorism
6:21 pm EDT, Jul 7, 2005
If you're like me, when you hear about information posted to an al-qaeda website you think, "how the hell do they have a web site"...well the answer to that is actually pretty interesting, I checked into it a little and found some interesting information about how they're hacking websites to keep their content on the net...
so the supreme court handed down some rulings today that made me pretty happy...you should read the opinions on Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Rasul v. Bush, and Rumsfeld v. Padilla...
the gist: you cant hold US citizens as enemy combatants without giving them a chance to contest their status as an EC. The US courts have juristiction anywhere the US has control (like control enough to put people in jail), so you cant just call "cuba" and get off the hook. and the Padilla case didnt grant his writ on the technicality that it was filed with the wrong respondants, they went on for a good long bit about this, but I thinkt he Hamdi verdict pretty much got what he wanted anyways...
of special note is Scalia's dissenting opinion on the Hamdi case, I didnt read it all but what I read sounded like a verbal news paper smacking the bush administration on its nose...he pretty much seemed to make the point that unless congress has invoked its suspention clause (where in special war times it can suspend habias corpus) then there is no legal authority to hold any citizen without formal charges and a trial...he then goes on to pretty much say we're probably violating the Geneva convention...its worth a glance at least...
Judge throws out petition that challenges enemy combatant designation
Topic: War on Terrorism
10:43 am EDT, Aug 25, 2003
]A federal judge on Friday threw out a petition that challenges the ]designation of a Bradley University graduate as an enemy combatant. ] ]U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mihm issued an order that ]supported a decision he made Monday in which he said the July 8 ]petition filed for Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri belongs in South ]Carolina. Al-Marri, who has been in federal custody since January ]2002, was taken to a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. under military ]control when President Bush ruled he was an al-Qaida sleeper agent ]on June 23. ] ]Al-Marri's status as an enemy combatant strips him of the right to ]counsel and allows the government to detain him indefinitely.
no really, does anyone else see a problem with removing due process, habeas corpus and the rest of the constitution...or is everyone happy just trusting the executive branch when they say someone is bad...no need to have trials by jury or anything, lets just let the president act as king...
it makes me sick that I have to search to find news about this, the media should be screaming at the top of their lungs 24 hours a day...
It makes me ashamed to be American sometimes when I see our country accept the abolition of the rule of law...but mostly it makes me angry at the rest of my country that seems to have forgoten what this country was supposed to stand for...
we've gotta stop those evil terrorists no matter the plot, i mean, first hijackings, then air plane crashes, dirty bombs, anthrax...now, yep you've guessed it, they've gone so far as to use graphics libraries...
i dont know about you guys, but right now im more afraid of the people that are suposedly saving us from terrorists than i am of the terrorists...i mean, the odds of me being hit by a terrorist attack seem far less than the odds that they'll kick in my door to save the world from me...
our collective silence has paid for this, enjoy...
no-one cares about civil liberties or reason 1502-B why i hate people
Topic: War on Terrorism
10:22 am EDT, May 19, 2003
more comentary on the Jose Padilla saga, this one is a puletser (yeah yeah i dont spell) prize winning jurnalist chastising the media for not giving any coverage to the Padilla case...
when exactly did the we all deside the government didnt need checks and balances any more...
