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In reply to the discussion: I'm astonished so many DUers are cool with ending Habeas Corpus [View all]PDJane
(10,103 posts)One more time. Any country which builds an extra-judicial system of imprisonment will eventually use it on its own people.
Damn it, does no-one remember the Cointelpro and the Church Committee? "The American people need to be assured that never again will an agency of the government be permitted to conduct a secret war against those citizens it considers to be a threat to the established order."
That extra-judicial system is currently being used on Bradley Manning and José Padilla, both of whom have been subjected to torture. Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan were killed. Do I think that Awlaki and Khan were sterling citizens? No. I do think that all of them deserve better treatment than they are getting from the U.S.A..
And what happens to the ones who try to defend the disposessed? Lynne Stewart, Anthony Taguba? Their careers are damaged and/or they end up in jail.
The heavy-handedness of the police in dealing with the occupy movement is another warning; right back to Cointelpro, 40 years ago.