Comments on: More Gitmo Thuggery http://arationalanimal.blogsome.com/2007/03/05/more-gitmo-thuggery/ Law, Native American Issues, Progressive Politics, and Whatever Happens to Piss Me Off Today Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:59:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Steve Bates http://arationalanimal.blogsome.com/2007/03/05/more-gitmo-thuggery/#comment-93 Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:05:23 +0000 http://arationalanimal.blogsome.com/2007/03/05/more-gitmo-thuggery/#comment-93 If I recall correctly, every right listed in the body of our Constitution and in the Bill of Rights was placed there by our founders as a result of direct experience with the very judicial abuses listed. Again IIRC, all but a couple of those enumerated rights refer to "person" or "people" rather than "citizen," which makes it hard to justify applying different standards to foreign nationals. And yet the minions of our latest King George do exactly that... and worse. Uneven standards of justice, trickery in charges, trials and punishments, etc. are among the very things our forebears rebelled against, and now our increasingly misnamed Department of "Justice" seems intent on re-creating the very kinds of offenses we hoped we had ended with the Revolution and later the ratification of the Constitution. But no. The more things change... If I recall correctly, every right listed in the body of our Constitution and in the Bill of Rights was placed there by our founders as a result of direct experience with the very judicial abuses listed. Again IIRC, all but a couple of those enumerated rights refer to “person” or “people” rather than “citizen,” which makes it hard to justify applying different standards to foreign nationals. And yet the minions of our latest King George do exactly that… and worse.

Uneven standards of justice, trickery in charges, trials and punishments, etc. are among the very things our forebears rebelled against, and now our increasingly misnamed Department of “Justice” seems intent on re-creating the very kinds of offenses we hoped we had ended with the Revolution and later the ratification of the Constitution.

But no. The more things change…

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