[Vision2020] GITMO Detainees Can Challenge Detention

[lfalen]

Most of these people were captured on the battlefield and a more appropriately should be treated as prisoners of war. This is entirety different from criminal offenses that occur within the US. No nation that I know of has released prisoners of war while the war is in progress. If any of theses detainee are US citizens and were aressed within the US, they might legitimately be subject to the US judical system.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Donovan Arnold donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:02:36 -0700
To: Chasuk chasuk at gmail.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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