AFP:
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A federal judge has ruled that some inmates at a US military base in Afghanistan can challenge their detention in US courts, a legal right granted to Guantanamo Bay prisoners.
Although the Supreme Court has ruled that detainees at the US naval base in Cuba have the constitutional right to challenge their detention, the government had argued that inmates held at the US air base in Bagram, Afghanistan did not.
But Judge [*****] ruled Thursday the Bagram detainees were “virtually identical” to those Guantanamo inmates being held indefinitely without due process.
“Bagram detainees who are not Afghan citizens, who were not captured in Afghanistan, and who have been held for an unreasonable amount of time” may invoke the right to habeas corpus, [*****] wrote.
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The case involved four detainees at Bagram — two Yemenis, a Tunisian and an Afghan — who were apprehended elsewhere and held there for at least six years.
This is one area where I disagree with the Ron Paul – Lew Rockwell – Paleo-Libertarian mindset on the right wing. Is the United States supposed to annex the rest of the world such that foreign terrorists are on the same legal footing as a purse snatcher in Des Moines? To think that we do cedes the argument to globalists and racial egalitarians.
This is why I opposed the “war on terror” to the extent of foreign occupation, because I know of the quisling civil rights mentality that acts like a retrovirus on the American ability to wage war, just as the same one precludes our resolve to stop domestic violent crime. The same American liberal/egalitarian mentality that means that we pander to black thugs in Chicago also means we pander to Iraqi terrorists in Baghdad. It was inevitable that liberal-paleolibertarian whining would seditiously destroy the morale of the American Armed Forces, not to mention the Pentagon’s attempt to prosecute American soldiers that do their jobs a little to well in Iraq, based on that same “civil rights” mentality that is used to prosecute white American inner city cops that also do their jobs a little too well when the subject of interest is a protected minority. What’s bad for the goose is also bad for the gander.
