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De Guantánamo a España - periodismohumano — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:40:06 +0000

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By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:57:32 +0000

bardamu wrote:

The poor Uighurs must be almost sorry to go to Switzerland. Had the Swiss not taken them, they would have seen 0bama do something right.

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:56:52 +0000

And here are a few comments from Common Dreams:

4thefuture wrote:

As I recall a couple of years back, one courageous town in Vermont issued an arrest warrant for Bush and Cheeny. Back in the 1980s, several locations, including churches and cities offered sanctuary to people fleeing the death squads in Central America. I wonder why American citizens can’t go to the local city councils, or equivalent thereof, and ask them to pass resolutions inviting these Uighurs to come there as a new form of sanctuary?

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:18:54 +0000

Thanks, TD, though your analysis is not exactly cheerful, of course. I wonder where the Uighurs will be dumped in the next 47 days, to demonstrate, as you so rightly say, that “habeas corpus has been reduced to an academic exercise.”
I find it sickening, to be honest, that Obama can’t find the courage to even contemplate bringing a single patently innocent man to live in the US, and ride out the frenzy that would dissipate when it was discovered that – hey! – this guy isn’t a terrorist at all.
I just spent some time with Omar Deghayes this evening. He came along to an Amnesty meeting I’d been asked to talk at in Brighton, and we did a nice double act. Someone like Omar in the States could singlehandedly cut through all the hysteria and cowardice …

By: the talking dog

the talking dog — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:22:53 +0000

It comes down to whether or not Justice Kennedy will accept the proposition that refusing forcible resettlement to another remote island not of one’s choosing acts as a waiver of rights under habeas corpus; while I hope the answer would be a resounding NO (just to ensure that judgments of the Supreme Court actually mean something)… that’s not how you bet. I’m going to bet that the Obama Admin. has just mooted this case, and unless some other detainee manages to get his case up to the Court before the Gov’t finds some other new home for them, habeas corpus has been reduced to an academic exercise.

Irony doesn’t begin to describe the despair of watching the probable destruction of the ultimate constitutional right– the right not to have the Government lock you in a dungeon solely at its whim– by the actions of the (alleged) constitutional law teacher, my college classmate, President Barack H. Obama.

By: Swiss Take Two Guantánamo Uighurs, Save Obama from Having to Do the Right Thing « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:30:05 +0000

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