Administration officials are preparing long-range plans for indefinitely imprisoning suspected terrorists whom they do not want to set free or turn over to courts in the United States or other countries, according to intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials.
The Pentagon and the CIA have asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for potentially lifetime detentions, including for hundreds of people now in military and CIA custody whom the government does not have enough evidence to charge in courts. [Emphases added.]
So the Bush Administration has arrogated to itself the right to apprehend any nigger anywhere in the world (so long as he is "suspected" of being a "terrorist") and hold him without trial for the duration of his life.
This blogger has decried, ad nauseum, the practice of bombing, shooting, or detaining on sight "suspected terrorists". And certainly we've known of Bush's and Pals' fascistic tendencies for long enough. But what does it say about our culture that such an announcement can appear in a Sunday edition of the fricking Washington Post, in a story whose tone implies that the subject is fucking waterskiing chipmunks (or whatever)?
As is their wont, the Democrats offer up token un-principled "dissent": "We don't want to set up a bureaucracy that ends up making it impossible to protect sources and informants who operate within the groups we want to penetrate."
But the "opposition" doesn't understand that
"... In Europe, the custodial interrogations have yielded almost nothing" because they do not use the threat of sending detainees to a country where they are likely to be tortured.
So here's George Bush's America:
If you're a nigger, we suspect you of being a terrorist. To get information out of you, we'll either torture you or threaten to outsource (so to speak) you to a country where you are "likely" to be tortured. If (because, in all likelihood, you're completely innocent) we can't get anything out of you, we'll throw you into the slammer for the rest of your life. But, to show you how fucking decent we are, we'll "allow" you "more comfort and freedom than [you] have now" and we'll "allow socializing among inmates". Have a nice day (and may God have mercy on your black ass).
Does anyone know how this squares with last year's Supreme Court decision allowing detainees to challenge their imprisonment? I would think/hope this would not stand.
Posted by: dack on January 3, 2005 08:01 AM"Have a nice day (and may God have mercy on your black ass)."
Bush: "I never said anything about mercy."
Posted by: Jake on January 3, 2005 10:09 AMDoes anyone know how this squares with last year's Supreme Court decision allowing detainees to challenge their imprisonment? I would think/hope this would not stand.
The administration's been dragging its feet so much that the Supreme Court decision is almost a joke. But here, from the Post article, is more regarding its plans:
One proposal under review is the transfer of large numbers of Afghan, Saudi, and Yemeni detainees from the military's Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center into new U.S.-built prisons in their home countries. The prisons would be operated by those countries, but the State Department, where this idea originated, would ask them to abide by recognized human rights standards and would monitor compliance [sure, that's why aid to human rights violators has greatly increased since 9/11], the senior administration official said.
I guess that habeus corpus is no longer considered a recognized human rights standard...