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To: Lane3 who wrote (72248)	6/14/2008 7:11:20 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) of 542043

>>No, I think not. First you have to figure out what you're going to do with and about terrorists. If you don't have a grip on what a terrorist is and what you want to do with him, you are nowhere. Inherent in that will be some process for sorting terrorists out from the rest of the people on the planet. For the terrorists, you establish some defined disposition. Obviously, you don't do anything with the innocent. They are not part of the system. They are left alone.<< Karen - I agree that you have to decide what to do with terrorists, though I don't see why it should be so difficult. Our justice system seems to be able to deal with all kinds of criminals. It dealt with the people who bombed the WTC in 1993, and it dealt with Timothy McVeigh, et al. Why do we need to have a whole different set of processes and principles to deal with terrorists now? The specific question of Habeas Corpus, however, which is what this weeks Supreme Court decision was about, is all about the innocent. And the problem is that the innocent have not been left alone. There have been and most surely are innocent people at Guantanamo, and probably in other US facilities around the world. - Allen

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