The longer you wait,
the shorter your life.
-- graffiti @ The Mill
So get out there and carpe the fucking diem!
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This weekend's edition of "This American Life" was a repeat/update of their Peabody-winning episode on habeus corpus -- specifically about the Current Occupant's refusal to use it at Guantanamo Bay. You can subscribe to the TAL podcast free on iTunes, or listen free here.
Hundreds of detainees have been held for five years now, with no chance to hear the charges against them, much less dispute them. No contact with the outside world. Most of them were rounded up en masse, with -- by our own government's admission! -- no proof at all that they had anything to do with al Qaida or any terrorist group.
At this point, is the government holding them simply because it's too embarrassed to admit it has nothing against them? If not, why not bring charges?
And if so, where do we go from here?
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I heard the first part of that the other day. Scary stuff. Got me thinking about how tightly controlled and loosely reported things have become since 9/11. Not on the subject of terrorism, though, sometimes a similar thing happens in conventional prisons when someone has been proven innocent after years of imprisonment -- no one is willing to release them, so they languish. Sometimes it's active resistance by prosecutors, sometimes it's institutional ennui. I'm more worried about the prosecutors. ;)
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