Thursday Night Open Thread
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Friday, March 13, 2009
US drops Enemy Combatant term
After 9/11 and the war in Iraq, the department of justice redefined which people can be held for reasons such as terrorism. The new definition requires more precise evidence on why this person can be detained and needs evidence instead of the old policy in which you can hold suspects without criminal justice. Finally something good is happening to those people in Guantanamo Bay. Though some of those people might be terrorists, they still deserve the right to a trial and the right charges before going into a prison. Whether they are US Citizens or not, they all still deserve the right to be treated equally. What do you guys think about this? I think at last justice is pushing the right way.
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It's about time! The term "enemy combatant" was about as useful as...well, George Bush himself. In the PATRIOT Act, and oter documents, an enemy combatant could be a elderly woman in Florida who gave money to an organization that purchased food and blankets for Afghani civilians. If the government thought there were any Al-Qaeda members in the group that recieved that aid, she would be assisting a terrorist. Does that make any sense? I think it's about time Gitmo was closed down for good.
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