[Vision2020] GITMO Detainees Can Challenge Detention

[Tom Hansen]

It is really quite simple, Arnold.

Either the detainees are prisoners of war or they are not.  

If they are prisoners of war, their "care and handling" fall under the 
governance of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, including that tacky little 
part concerning torture.  If they are suspected of war crimes, they should 
be tried by a military tribunal (remember the Nurnberg Trials?).

If they are not prisoners of war, they fall under the governance of the 
controlling government and its constitution (the US), including that nifty 
part concerning a right to representation at trial.

Since their apprehension was not the result of a "declared" war, they are 
what they are: detainees.  As such they are subject to our constitution.

But then, you knew all this, didn't you, Arnie?

Tom-Tom "who has been known to 'road test' parts of the Constitution on 
occassion" Hannie (Tom Hansen)
Moscow, Idaho

"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college 
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)



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