At 08:16 PM 10/15/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:
On Monday, October 15, 2001, at 07:56 PM, Anonymous wrote:
You all, including Mr. May, missed the subtlety of the point that due process has NOT been suspended in the case of these detainees.
They HAVE representation, and I don't THINK the Bill of Rights says anywhere that you get to see Mommy if you're arrested, but that you can obtain representation, you are not required to incriminate yourself, and so forth. In theory.
Get a clue. The issue is not "get to see Mommy."
Rather, the issue is the holding of 600+ various persons, some of whom are very vaguely claimed to be "material witnesses."
Note too that many of the detained may not have lawyers. Most of them are not being held on criminal charges. They are held as material witnesses or on immigration holds. I don't know if a material witness has a right to an attorney but immigration offenses are civil not criminal matters (in most cases) and thus the prisoners have to pay for their own lawyers which means that those who have no money have to find lawyers and convince them to work for free and to spend their own money chasing their clients around the country as they are moved. DCF