On 2004-11-08T10:09:41-0500, John Kelsey wrote:
Kerry spent essentially no time talking about the creepy implications of the Jose Padilla case (isn't he still being held incommunicado, pending filing in the right district?), or the US government's use of torture in the war on terror despite treaties and the basic obligations of civilized people not to do that crap.
Padilla is still in the naval brig in SC, I suppose. The media seems to think he's still there, or at least thought so as of mid-September. They might be trying to do to him what they did to Hamdi, who's in Saudi Arabia as of a month ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaser_Hamdi#Release http://www.mail-archive.com/conlawprof@lists.ucla.edu/thrd2.html (search for Hamdi, there are 8-10 messages about it) I don't know if Padilla has dual citizenship, so there may not be another country that would take him. Apparent citizen-less individuals (mostly citizens of other countries who won't re-accept them when the U.S. tries to deport them) end up being incarcerated indefinitely by the INS. -- The old must give way to the new, falsehood must become exposed by truth, and truth, though fought, always in the end prevails. -- L. Ron Hubbard