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To: dennisw
Detainees are not on US soil and have purposely been kept out of the jurisdiction of US court

As this SC noted, the Constitution has long been viewed as a constraint on the power of the executive wherever in the world it operates. In the second place, as the SC noted, Guantanamo is under full and total de facto US government sovereignty. To claim Cuban sovereignty is to suggest that upon application of the Cuban government we would be compelled to hand over the detainees to Cuba. We would dispute that Cuba's sovereignty extends that far. You cannot have it both ways.

Captured in fighting off US soil

How do you know that? Have the capturing officers sworn to the manner of their capture under oath on the record in a manner subject to cross examination and review upon appeal? No, you don't know that at all. You just assume that what some government official tells you is true. Why do you trust them here when you don't trust the government to tell the truth on anything else?

29 posted on 06/15/2008 2:00:17 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

Come on... You really think any of the Gitmo detainees were captured in the USA?

Plus the US has fought overseas many times and never before have slime ball lawyers found a way of insinuating themselves into the POW camps

What you don’t get about our liberal lawyers is that they are busybodies, a spreading cancer, and could not bear to be kept out of Gitmo and let military law take care of the process. Their prime objective is to insinuate themselves into every crevice of our existence


32 posted on 06/15/2008 2:10:46 PM PDT by dennisw (We have an idiocracy not a democracy)
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