Friday, June 13, 2008

What Do We Do With People We Think Are Scary (but who we can't prove did anything wrong)?

AAAaaagggghhhhh! Today NPR's Nina Totenberg is telling us about this problem. Some of these people may not be a threat, and they may have been radicalized by years of mistreatment at Gitmo, what do we do with them? So they're innocent, and maybe they're mad at us for holding them for no reason for 6 years (you think?). So what, oh what do you do with people who you can't prove committed a crime?

Uh, how about LET THEM GO!?! I mean, seriously, I'm not a criminal attorney, but as far as I know, the US doesn't have a department of precrime yet.

"The government thinks you're a terrorist" is not probable cause. It's not due process. It's not a charge. "The government is charging you with terrorist acts" is a charge. "We don't like you," not so much.

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