[Vision2020] Habeas Corpus at Bagram

Sunil Ramalingam sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 28 20:23:13 PDT 2009


I can stop with this, or provide more. Let me know your pleasure. 

http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2009-April/063203.html


Sunil

From: jampot at roadrunner.com
To: sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Habeas Corpus at Bagram
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:57:58 -0700










Arbiter of manners? When? Where? Is there an specific 
example of this you can point to or is this another example of campbell's 
"hyperbole for comic effect" AKA making things up because, sadly, it's the best 
you can do?
 
g

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Sunil Ramalingam 
  Cc: vision 2020 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 6:17 
  PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Habeas Corpus 
  at Bagram
  
It's this sort of post that makes your attempts to become the 
  arbiter of manners so puzzling.

Sunil


  
  From: jampot at roadrunner.com
To: 
  ophite at gmail.com; lfalen at turbonet.com
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 
  2009 17:51:05 -0700
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: 
  [Vision2020] Habeas Corpus at Bagram


  

  
  "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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