Another Call for Habeas Corpus in Guantanamo
I listened to This American Life's broadcast on the detainees at Guantanamo for the first time this week and have this to say.
The last time I was this shocked by American injustice was in my childhood, sitting in my parents' living room watching black & white TV broadcasts of police taking fire hoses and attack dogs to peaceful demonstrators in Mississippi.
Really. And there have been a lot of shocking events since then.
I'm providing you with a link to that This American Life episode below, after providing you with the following excerpt from Chris Suellentrop's New York Times Blog The Opinionator on the same subject.
The Washington Post editorial page joins the editorial pages of The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times in despairing over the Democratic Congress’s failure to implement “the reform that may be most achievable — the restoration of the ancient right of habeas corpus to the Guantanamo detainees.”
House Democrats have not “hesitated to pick fights with the administration over such issues as whether the hiring and firing of U.S. attorneys was properly managed, or whether Karl Rove and Condoleezza Rice can be compelled to testify about their actions as presidential advisers,” the Post editorial notes.
“Why not fight for the right of habeas corpus? Maybe because it’s not really a priority for the Democrats, after all.”
Click here for This American Life's Peabody Award Winning Broadcast Habeaus Schmabeus -- MUST LISTENING for anyone interested in restoring the rule of law in the United States and having a rat's chance in %$^#@ of of holding our heads high (or least above ground level) in the international human rights community again.
