Your Liberty, My Liberty

Unless supposed civil libertarians are planning on picking up a gun (which they've probably banned in their own communities--there go my civil liberties) and taking up arms against the US, and renouncing their US citizenship, they're safe from the indefinite arrest they so loudly protest. The Tribune headline blares, "Gitmo Detainees Denied":

In a 2-1 ruling, judges said the Constitution does not extend habeas corpus to non-citizens who are held outside the sovereign territory of this country. "Cuba--not the United States--has sovereignty over Guantanamo Bay," wrote Judge Raymond Randolph.

WaPo story here. They are non-citizens, held outside this country. And they were captured on the battlefield, fighting against us. They do have the right for redress through military courts, under the law passed by Congress. Hmm, and wasn't one of those released from Gitmo in the news lately? Ah yes, a "bookshop owner" in the UK who was arrested in the thwarted plot to behead his neighbor.

So pick a better subject for your human rights' demonstrations. Like maybe the real political prisoners in Castro's hellhole of a country. Or maybe those who suffer in Iran.


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