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<div>You mean to imply that Canadian and/ or US authorities accidentally sent this man to Syria, ignoring habeus corpus protections, rather than holding him under court supervision in the US or Canada? Are you saying the violation of habeas corpus in this case was "accidental?"
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<div>No one is saying that someone connected to planning terrorists attacks should not be detained and questioned, etc. The issue, the major and overwhelmingly important issue, is secret detainment away from court oversight in a foreign country with use of torture.
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<div>Why is this so hard to understand?</div>
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<div>Of course mistakes can be made in law enforcement, this is a given. That is why there are constitutional protections in place to prevent government abuses, like courts that review cases of imprisonment. Why are the defenders of the Bush administration's undermining of civil rights so distrustful of courts? It's as though they have no faith in our system of government, the equal sharing of power between the judiciary, legislative and executive branch. Indeed, a case can be made that supporting the undermining of the role of courts, as the Bush administration has done with FISA and elsewhere, is an attack on the fundamental system of justice that protects all of us from government abuses.
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<div>And I thought "conservatives" were in favor or limiting government power over its citizens? It seems our new brand of "conservative" is intent on expanding federal power over the individual to include secret imprisonment away from court supervision with torture, under the justification such abuses are justified by the "war on terror." Sounds like Communist China, or the old Soviet Union...
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">The mistake was made, it needs to be rectified, at least to the degree<br>possible, and we need to get on with life. We do not need to have it thrown
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<div>Again, the point is the abandonment of the basic legal protections of habeas corpus which are fundamental to preventing government abuses. This case highlights the issue, partly because it has been so exhaustively documented, and is becoming a focal point for why habeas corpus protections need to be enforced.
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<div>This case is not the worst example, though it may be one of the most documented. Many have died in custody (and I emphasize in custody, not on the battlefield) due to torture under US led operations under circumstances where they were never formally charged with a crime nor was guilt or innocence firmly determined.
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<div><a href="http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/HardEvidence.pdf">http://www.projectcensored.org/newsflash/HardEvidence.pdf</a></div>
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<div>Ted Moffett</div>
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