Re: Overheard on the scanner

On Wed, 07 May 2008 23:13:57 -0400, Sean O'Hara
<seanohara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful William 
>December Starr declared:
>> In article <howard-46444F.09094907052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Howard S Shubs <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>> 
>>>> Then you've been too smugly sure of yourself to pay attention.
>>> No, I've been paying attention for quite a while.  They come to
>>> the same result
>> 
>> What result is that?  The Presidential power to make anyone he wants
>> disappear into a secret prison?
>> 
>
>I'm skeptical of the notion that he can do it to *anyone*. And the 
>powers Bush has claimed since 11 September are well grounded in 
>precedents set by Roosevelt and especially Wilson.

And Lincoln.

>Nor do I believe that Clinton and Obama will reverse US policy WRT 
>Guantanamo -- they might close that particular prison, but the 
>people held there will be shuffled elsewhere, possibly into foreign 
>jurisdictions. If called on it, they'll give some half-assed 
>explanation about how the issue was more complicated than they 
>thought before taking office.

Part of the problem with repatriating those at Guantanamo is that
at least a few of them don't want to go home.  Guantanamo is
apparently preferable to a prison in, say, Egypt or Pakistan.  Or
Afghanistan.
-- 
Doug Wickström
har fiol, vill resa