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Does the Holocaust Rule Apply
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Originally posted by Spanky
Who said that? No one said that. Rights just can't be arbitrarily taken away. There are certain times certain rights can be taken away when there is a compelling government reason. But it is very limited. That is what we call the criminal justice system. But you can't possibly argue that the government can never take our rights away. And what other reason would the government take our rights way other than the public interest. What other reason is there?
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At Guantanamo Bay, and other undisclosed places around the world, our government is locking people up. These people effectively have no rights. Our government asserts the ability to do as it pleases to these people, without the protections that might be afforded by our criminal justice system, the Constitution, or treaties such as the Geneva Conventions. The audacity of the legal theories applied to justify all of this is breathtaking. Most of the people who are locked up are not American citizens, but the case of Jose Padilla demonstrates that this government believes it can ignore these various protections even when it locks up an American citizen within this country, simply in the name of national security.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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