Anti-Torture Activists Go On Trial Today For Speaking Out Against Indefinite Detention

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5. Buncha damn hippies

Don't they trust the president? Didn't they hear what Britney Spears said back in Feb. 2002 about that? What's the matter with these malcontents? If you haven't done anything wrong, you probably don't have anything to worry about. And the people who are being indefinitely detained really, really deserve to be held without charge or counsel for as long as the United States thinks it's necessary. Some of them harbor really harsh feelings toward the U.S., you know. Or, if they didn't when they were imprisoned, they probably do now, so that's another strike against them.

On a slightly more serious note, good luck to the defendants, but the court isn't going to be listening to anything they have to say about the reason why they were protesting. The judge is going to confine himself or herself to the incidents leading up to their arrest, not the reason why they were acting as they did.