New detainee law put to use

Post #270,986 by JayMehaffey 10/21/06 2:41:23 PM Reply	New detainee law put to use [link\|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901692.html?nav=rss_nation/special\|Washington Post] Moving quickly to implement the bill signed by President Bush this week that authorizes military trials of enemy combatants, the administration has formally notified the U.S. District Court here that it no longer has jurisdiction to consider hundreds of habeas corpus petitions filed by inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. In a notice dated Wednesday, the Justice Department listed 196 pending habeas cases, some of which cover groups of detainees. The new Military Commissions Act (MCA), it said, provides that "no court, justice, or judge" can consider those petitions or other actions related to treatment or imprisonment filed by anyone designated as an enemy combatant, now or in the future. The lawyers for the detainees where ready and waiting for the government to make it's move. I fully expect this to get back to the Supreme Court shortly. This may be the most important matter brought before the Supreme Court in our generation. If the court allows laws that put any part of the legal system outside judicial review it will be a major defeat for the United State. The government has been careful here to only involve cases with non-American defendents, but if the court allows this, that restriction will not stand for long. Jay
Post #271,029 by tuberculosis 10/22/06 1:20:38 PM 8/21/07 5:57:20 AM Reply	Twin towers as metaphor for USA OBL hoped to damage the towers, but he was pleasantly surprised to find that he had hit the giants in just the right way to cause its complete collapse. And similarly, he seems to have hit the US Government somewhat the same way. One little push, in just the right place, can indeed bring down a mountain. [link\|http://www.blackbagops.net\|Black Bag Operations Log] [link\|http://www.objectiveclips.com\|Artificial Intelligence] [link\|http://www.badpage.info/seaside/html\|Scrutinizer] Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 05:57:20 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #271,065 by Ashton 10/22/06 11:53:20 PM Reply	Indeed: potential energy --> kinetic, in a trice. Never saw a physics demo of that equivalence as PERFECT as those horrifying slo-mo videos (That thought hasn't been far out of mind since first view of those trip-hammer collapses: as metaphor for so much else nearing collapse, hereabouts.) And this cabal has now had Six Entire Years in which to attack or dismantle: everything from infrastructure to, the methodic damage to many of those ephemeral reasons which, taken together -- describe one's allegiance to a particular 'society'? Or disgust with. Do modrin kids get exposed to even one semester of HS physics (in between Shopping and Driver Ed?) If any basics were grokked at all, I'd think that potential/kinetic 'energy' demo would have registered in lots of jelloware.. Why... some might even have grokked to fullness why electric cars fed by petroleum-fueled plants (or hydrogen produced by electrolysis) -- are Red Herrings too. Now there's the Corn 'solution'. Methinks the mass is still solidly marooned in cha cha cha Land, whatever the crucial topic. (LaLaLand was funnier - but just as obtuse.) Ethics-free bizness has become an utter failure, re. any positive effect upon next, a sustainable 'social contract' - meanwhile, few ever have have heard, even - of 'a social contract'. And THAT abject failure gets everyone, since $bizness remains the only actual Religion practised in these parts. Pity. Does anyone under 40 have even a vague sense of the Tar Baby story / Uncle Remus? I wonder..
Post #271,076 by dmcarls 10/23/06 9:17:56 AM Reply	Re: Indeed: potential energy --> kinetic, in a trice. >>> Does anyone under 40 have even a vague sense of the Tar Baby story / Uncle Remus? I wonder.. It seems to me that the Tar Baby story has been replaced these days with Curious George stories. From Wikipedia: "George, as adorable as he is most of the time, can be a real handful when the Man turns his back or leaves the house, as George's curiosity causes him to get into a series of predicaments and shenanigans." A modern day metaphor, just like the stories of yesteryear.
Post #271,078 by hnick 10/23/06 9:30:07 AM Reply	Re: tar baby Not only is "Tar baby" still around, but it is no inappropriate and politically incorrect. [link\|http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/31/politics/main1851199.shtml\|http://www.cbsnews.c...main1851199.shtml] It's racially insensitive, you see... We're number one! _{but it's a race to the bottom :(}
Post #271,135 by Ashton 10/24/06 3:56:52 AM Reply	What a Wimp.. after all those years playing politics in this prissy playground. He coulda said.. {swirly brown mist} ~ I see nothing racist in describing an exact analogy for the Neoconmens' ignorant assessment of that tar baby which is Iraq. That both US hands are stuck firmly to that excellent image: is not even a matter for debate. If long ago, some tried to connect a pithy Uncle Remus story to dastardly racial caricatures -- that has nothing to do with the power of the story, which was in no way a slur on any group. Tar == tar. Baby == baby. And I ain't even a Pol. {sheesh} fucking inarticulate WIMPs - the Peepul's Choice.

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