2006-09-18 16:24:54 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Hey, Auschwitz was legal under German law - why not Gitmo? Gitmo is on US soil and under US law....
2006-09-18 16:26:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
No, and so has the supreme court ruled! Bush's torture days are over!
White House Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino said the administration was sending the new language in hopes of reaching an agreement. A revolt by GOP senators, who have written their own proposal giving terror detainees more rights than the administration wants, has embarrassed the White House at a time when Republicans want to use their security policies as a main platform in November's congressional elections.
"Our commitment to finding a resolution is strong," Perino said.
A week after a Republican-led Senate committee defied Bush and approved terror-detainee legislation that the president vowed to block, three more GOP senators said they now opposed the administration's version, joining the four Republicans who had already come out against it.
If all 44 Democrats plus the chamber's Democratic-leaning independent also vote for the alternative by Sen. John Warner (news, bio, voting record), R-Va., as expected, that would give it a majority in the 100-member Senate.
In a further hint of problems for the administration, House officials said their chamber was postponing a vote planned for Wednesday on a bill mirroring Bush's proposal.
Republican officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they have encountered resistance and were no longer certain they had enough votes to push the measure to passage through the GOP-run House.
Kevin Madden, spokesman for House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the vote would be rescheduled to next week and blamed the delay on a request by the House Judiciary Committee to study the bill.
An administration official, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity surrounding the negotiations, said the new language only addresses a dispute over the nation's obligations under the Geneva Conventions, which set the standard for treatment of prisoners taken during hostilities.
By ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer
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2006-09-18 23:31:13 · answer #2 · answered by cantcu 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Bill of Rights applies to everyone. Every person in the world has the right to due process, no cruel and unusual punishments, a speedy and public trial, and other rights protected by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments. There are a few rights reserved for citizens. Among them are the right to vote, the right to hold most federal jobs, and the right to run for political office.
Upheld and affirmed numerous times. It is the law of the land.
2006-09-18 23:51:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the same way the Germans thought that Auschwitz, Birkenau, or Dachau were constitutional. A place where you disregard international law can hardly be considered constitutional.
2006-09-18 23:28:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
listen up hasin, abu or what ever you name is. If you or anyone else has info that could save lives, I would extract that Intel from you with ANY MEANS. got it. The wimps on capital hill like MC Cain need to put there politics aside and do whats right for this country. I wouldn't think twice about cracking a few knee caps or sponged electrocution, what ever it takes.
2006-09-18 23:33:22 · answer #5 · answered by Work In Progress 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, according to the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005:
"No individual in the custody or under the physical control of the United States Government, regardless of nationality or physical location, shall be subject to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment."
2006-09-18 23:31:00 · answer #6 · answered by Alex T 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Torture at gitmo, hmmm, well, no proof, and we go by innocent until proven scape goat anyway.....they would have to follow the constitution in order to be held by it....luckily we don't go by middle eastern laws like cutting of hands and prove innocence later....
2006-09-18 23:29:10 · answer #7 · answered by lost&confused 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
there have been no reports of torture at Guantanamo reatrd!
2006-09-19 01:08:19 · answer #8 · answered by ace 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you ****-heads would stop fabrication your fantasy torture island and investigate Congressman Solomon Ortiz's activities, you'd really have something to lose sleep over.
2006-09-18 23:27:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
It doesn't really matter. There always has been and always will be torture for the purpose of gaining intelligence. Remember "We have ways of making you talk".
2006-09-18 23:28:54 · answer #10 · answered by Gene Rocks! 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
About as much as cutting off innocent people's heads.
2006-09-18 23:27:10 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋