[Vision2020] [Bulk] Re: GITMO Detainees Can Challenge Detention

[Sunil Ramalingam]

He has also not addressed his prior claim that they had already been tried, when no trials have taken place.  Kangaroo court hearings are not trials.

Sunil

> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:26:53 -0700
> From: chasuk at gmail.com
> To: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
> CC: idahotom at hotmail.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [Bulk] Re: GITMO Detainees Can Challenge Detention
> 
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 19:45, Donovan Arnold
> <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > You are incorrect on ALL Counts of your last email:
> 
> Am I?  If I am wrong on ALL counts, then rebut all counts.  I concede
> that I may be partially wrong on ONE count, but hardly ALL.
> 
> Importantly, I wrote that:
> 
> > So this isn't so much a matter of stripping the military of a right that it has historically
> > had, but of restoring  legal rights to prisoners -- rights which were taken away with dubious
> > justification, and during a time of public hysteria.
> 
> Note the word "historically."  History does predate the United States,
> at least for the rest of the world.  Historically, enemy combatants
> were members of the enemy armed forces.  Our Supreme Court redefined
> the historical meaning in 1942, and in this I erred when I stated:
> 
> > This power wasn't granted until post-9/11.
> 
> I was thinking of the later expansions, such as the Military
> Commissions Act of 2006.  I apologize for my mistake.
> 
> As you didn't address any of my other alleged errors, I can't respond further.
> 
> Chas
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