[Vision2020] GITMO Detainees Can Challenge Detention

[Sunil Ramalingam]

They have never received anything like a trial as we know it.  They have had 'hearings' in which they are unrepresented and are not allowed to see the evidence against them.  That might be a trial elsewhere.  In our tradition we never considered anything that farcical to be a trial before.

Sunil

Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:02:36 -0700
From: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
To: chasuk at gmail.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] GITMO Detainees Can Challenge Detention

Chas,     They were not deprived of due process of law. They were tried, and found guilty before they are sent and locked up in Gitmo. The reason they are not tried in American Civilian Courts is because they are not US Citizens and because if they were it would expose US classified information which would put US soldiers and possibly civilians at risk.      Best Regards,     Donovan

Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:  On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 18:59, Donovan Arnold
wrote:

> Maybe we should create an "Adopt a Detainee" program. Those that think they
> are innocent detainees can line up and open their homes to people considered
> to be unfairly detained at Gitmo. If they really believe that these
 people
> are innocent, and they are released, it would be unfair to send them back to
> their home country to be killed, right?

I don't have any opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the Gitmo
detainees, so I won't be inviting them into my house, thank you.
However, that doesn't mean that I believe they should have been
deprived of the due process of law, which is the real subject here.

Chas

 

      
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