[Vision2020] Habeas Corpus at Bagram

[g. crabtree]

"Incidentally, I directed this originally at Gary, but he seems unwilling to defend torture on its own terms."  

My goodness isn't the nascent little ambulance chaser cute when he gets all up on his hind legs and brays about how others should be ashamed?

The reason that I don't "defend torture" is because that  I see no compelling need to. As I've said before, I do not believe that waterboarding is torture, I do not believe that the previous administration had a policy promoting the use of torture, and  I don't think that your pretending to be the arbiter of all that is righteous, pure and holy necessitates my responding to every idle quack and query that's directed my way. 

Now how's about you knock it off with the phony shame routine and save it for closing arguments in kiddy court alright?


g
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andreas Schou 
  To: lfalen 
  Cc: vision2020 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:57 AM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Habeas Corpus at Bagram


  Roger --

  No: just until the cessation of hostilities in the "war on terror." Which, because it is not a "war" in any meaningful sense, but rather a massive combined military/law enforcement action, cannot ever end. 

  Incidentally, I directed this originally at Gary, but he seems unwilling to defend torture on its own terms. You, on the other hand, are not half as clever (or half as moral; I can't tell which). We did not have an official policy of torture during WWII, when we were actually faced with destruction by an opponent of equal strength. In the "War on Terror," we are faced with an enemy that has killed less than 1/10th the number of Americans that died at Normandy. 

  To resort to barbarism in the face of such a comparatively minor threat is rank cowardice. You should be ashamed.

  -- ACS

  (Incidentally, Roger: by conceding that waterboarding is torture, you just conceded that the Bush administration is guilty of a number of crimes. A single instance of torture, or conspiracy to commit torture, is a federal crime with a maximum punishment of life imprisonment.)


  On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:12 AM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:

    I never said that there should be an indefinite suspension of habeas corpus. Don't put words in my mouth.
    Roger

    -----Original message-----
    From: Andreas Schou ophite at gmail.com
    Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:03:08 -0700
    To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
    Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Habeas Corpus at Bagram

    > It was during a time of armed insurrection, as specified in the
    > Constitution. The United States was rife with traitors, both to our
    > principles and to our government. He did what was necessary. Even accepting
    > the counterfactual that 9/11 was an armed insurrection, the Constitution
    > cannot possibly permit the indefinite suspension of habeas corpus during a
    > permanent war.
    >
    > -- ACS
    >
    > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:36 AM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
    >
    > > Joe
    > > What do you think os Lincoln's suspension of Habeas Corpus?
    > > Roger
    > > -----Original message-----
    > > From: Joe Campbell philosopher.joe at gmail.com
    > > Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:05:13 -0800
    > > To: Andreas Schou ophite at gmail.com
    > > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Habeas Corpus at Bagram
    > >
    > > > FYI Hilary Bok is a philosopher. Works in free will, which is the same
    > > > area I work in.
    > > >
    > > > Joe Campbell
    > > >
    > > > On Feb 24, 2009, at 7:35 PM, Andreas Schou <ophite at gmail.com> wrote:
    > > >
    > > > > Hilary Bok at the Washington Monthly has the best piece I've seen
    > > > > about the habeas corpus rights of prisoners at Bagram. The previous
    > > > > administration's too-clever-by-half reading of U.S. v. Eisentrager
    > > > > (the case upon which the detention regime at Guantanamo) has led to
    > > > > some serious, and intentional, confusion of the respective
    > > > > jurisdictions of our military and federal courts.
    > > > >
    > > > > http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/
    > > > > 2009_02/017017.php
    > > > >
    > > > > This article pretty much sums up what I think about Bagram.
    > > > >
    > > > > -- ACS
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