Thread: Bush seeks to extend Guantánamo procedures to American citizens
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Old 08-02-2006, 02:30 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Katczinsky
Its extending it not to just alien 'hostiles' but to American citizens. Even if Americans are hostile to the United States, that doesn't somehow take away their rights to due process and habeas corpus.

“Engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners,” regardless of nationality" is very vague. That could mean the government could withold specific trial rights of American citizens simply because they had plans to bomb a federal building or something.

I can't believe you defend this blatant threat upon our freedoms and rights as American citizens.
Correct. I agree with you. If someone has plans to bomb a federal building or something, I want that person stopped any way possible. To hell with his "rights". Saving innocent American lives is worth more to me than some murderer's so-called "rights". Everyone has priorities and it's obvious yours are for the criminal instead of the victim.