[Vision2020] GITMO Detainees Can Challenge Detention

[lfalen]

Tom and Liz
Regardless of the semantics on a declaration of war, If they were captured during a battle, they should be considered prisoners of war. To release them and sent them home, the take home message to our solders is- Take no prisoners.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Tom Ivie the_ivies3 at yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:24:45 -0700
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] GITMO Detainees�Can Challenge Detention

> This was the topic of a family discussion this weekend. One argument I heard was that you have to define "war" in the Constitution.  The argument was that the Constitution refers to war between the U.S. and another country, not individuals and not groups. Though I haven't verified this by any means. The family member went on to say that the U.S. never went to war with Afghanistan. Afghanistan is where many of the detainees�were captured. If this is the case, are they really prisoners of war?  
> 
> Tom & Liz Ivie
> 
> --- On Mon, 6/16/08, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
> From: lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] GITMO Detainees Can Challenge Detention
> To: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>, "Chasuk" <chasuk at gmail.com>
> Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Monday, June 16, 2008, 3:09 PM
> 
> 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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