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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (5280)	2/26/2007 5:39:49 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

Canadian Court Limits Detention in Terror Cases (Canadian liberalism alert) New York Times ^ nytimes.com OTTAWA, Feb. 23 — Canada’s highest court on Friday unanimously struck down a law that allows the Canadian government to detain foreign-born terrorism suspects indefinitely using secret evidence and without charges while their deportations are being reviewed. The detention measure, the security certificate system, has been described by government lawyers as an important tool for combating international terrorism and maintaining Canada’s domestic security. Six men are now under threat of deportation without an open hearing under the certificates. “The overarching principle of fundamental justice that applies here is this: before the state can detain people for significant periods of time, it must accord them a fair judicial process,” Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote in the ruling. The three men who brought the case are likely to remain jailed or under strict parole because the court suspended its decision for a year to allow Parliament to introduce a law consistent with the ruling. The decision reflected striking differences from the current legal climate in the United States. In the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Congress stripped the federal courts of authority to hear challenges, through petitions for writs of habeas corpus, to the open-ended confinement of foreign terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. A federal appeals court in Washington upheld the constitutionality of that law this week, dismissing 13 cases brought on behalf of 63 Guantánamo detainees. Their lawyers said they would file an appeal with the Supreme Court. In two earlier decisions, the justices ruled in favor of Guantánamo detainees on statutory grounds but did not address the deeper constitutional issues that this case appears to present. (Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ....

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (5280)	2/26/2007 5:46:46 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

"Imagine if Microsoft announce the Federal government had ordered them to stop producing Windows in French, Russian or persian." Its not a bad idea but I'm not sure we still have that leverage available to us. Recent history of the USA. We were the kings of software development. We hired off shore workers, many from India to work in silicon valley California and else where. Bill Gates built high tech cities for software development in India. Microsoft development is huge in India now, California computer development economy has all but collapsed. India now has their own products, MicroSoft and competitors of Microsoft. They don't need our jobs. Microsoft announcements are more likely to coerce us to change things than them.