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John S.
The U.S. Detention Center at Guantanamo Bay has been in the news a lot over the last several years. Some of it has to do with the interrogation practices used, but it seems to be more complex than that.
One of the first moves that Obama seems to be posturing to take is to CLOSE Guantanamo Bay. I am starting to get the sense that Obama considers Guantanamo Bay as being something in the same category as Hitler's Auschwitz with the concentration camps of the Nazi regime. That's an extreme, I admit, but the closing of a strategic U.S. facility seems to be extreme as well if indeed we are giving up something strategic that has worked to protect the security of U.S. citizens and American interests.
There are prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, correct? Terrorists and suspected terrorists I believe. So what's Obama going to do with them? Send them home with a get-out-of-jail free pass? Bring them onto U.S. soil so any raid attempts to free them will now threaten U.S. lives beyond the brave U.S. service men and women who currently manage our Guantanamo Bay facility?
I am sketchy on these details, I admit. But if you can help me fill in the blanks, that would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Answer
The only people at Guantanomo who are known to be guilty of anything are already being tried and seem, in fact, eager for the publicity. Khalid Sheikh Muhammad for one.
The ones who aren't being tried are the ones who there is no evidence against.
Since when did international law change to allow the US to arbitrarily imprison foreigners captured in combat on the basis of mere suspicion? People captured in combat are prisoners of war. That is rock-solid international law. Pretending otherwise was a bad, isolationist mistake that put the US at odds with the civilized world.
There may be some people who have been plotting terrorist acts at Guantanamo. But the vast majority of prisoners there are completely innocent. Even if a few of them go back and plot against the US again, the chances of their plots leading to anything significant are negligible.
The 9/11 attack was a lucky strike for a ragtag band of radical militants. There was no "Al Qaeda" at the time, it was a term invented by the CIA and swallowed whole by the media. It means "the network" translated literally. That "network" wasn't any organization, it just meant the various venues and contacts that dealt with fundamentalist radicals over the years. It's like associating gangsters all over the world with each other just because they're all called "the Mafia." It's a term of paranoia to feed public fear. There was, in reality, hardly any organization or power.
Even if there were a 9/11 every year, which there won't be, since it was a rare long-shot, Americans will still be safe. You're in far more danger from your own self than from a foreign terrorist, especially if you drive a car. Typically more than 14,000 Americans are murdered by other Americans every year. Thousands die from negligence or from freak accidents.
Not to mention your food! Americans are slaughtered in the
hundreds of thousands every year by their own bad eating habits. Over half of the population is now overweight or obese.
So to put it simple, "national security" is no excuse. Obama is right, it's time for America to grow up and admit it doesn't have special rights in the world.
I hope Obama can drag Israel into the light with him. Israel is the only developed nation that ever outdoes the US in sheer ugliness. They just finished doing so yet again. Israel is the one who taught the CIA how to "soft torture," too. They've practiced it since the '70's.
The only people at Guantanomo who are known to be guilty of anything are already being tried and seem, in fact, eager for the publicity. Khalid Sheikh Muhammad for one.
The ones who aren't being tried are the ones who there is no evidence against.
Since when did international law change to allow the US to arbitrarily imprison foreigners captured in combat on the basis of mere suspicion? People captured in combat are prisoners of war. That is rock-solid international law. Pretending otherwise was a bad, isolationist mistake that put the US at odds with the civilized world.
There may be some people who have been plotting terrorist acts at Guantanamo. But the vast majority of prisoners there are completely innocent. Even if a few of them go back and plot against the US again, the chances of their plots leading to anything significant are negligible.
The 9/11 attack was a lucky strike for a ragtag band of radical militants. There was no "Al Qaeda" at the time, it was a term invented by the CIA and swallowed whole by the media. It means "the network" translated literally. That "network" wasn't any organization, it just meant the various venues and contacts that dealt with fundamentalist radicals over the years. It's like associating gangsters all over the world with each other just because they're all called "the Mafia." It's a term of paranoia to feed public fear. There was, in reality, hardly any organization or power.
Even if there were a 9/11 every year, which there won't be, since it was a rare long-shot, Americans will still be safe. You're in far more danger from your own self than from a foreign terrorist, especially if you drive a car. Typically more than 14,000 Americans are murdered by other Americans every year. Thousands die from negligence or from freak accidents.
Not to mention your food! Americans are slaughtered in the
hundreds of thousands every year by their own bad eating habits. Over half of the population is now overweight or obese.
So to put it simple, "national security" is no excuse. Obama is right, it's time for America to grow up and admit it doesn't have special rights in the world.
I hope Obama can drag Israel into the light with him. Israel is the only developed nation that ever outdoes the US in sheer ugliness. They just finished doing so yet again. Israel is the one who taught the CIA how to "soft torture," too. They've practiced it since the '70's.
1. Is this a civil or criminal case? What is the basis of your answer? 2.2. What type of civil/criminal case i?
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In 2003, Clara Harris, a Houston-area dentist, stood trial for killing her orthodontist husband by running him over with her automobile. Here is a news account of the event that led to the charges against Ms. Harris:
NASSAU BAY, Texas -- A Houston-area woman was arrested early Thursday morning, accused of running over her husband and killing him after learning that he was cheating on her. When asked about her husband's death, Clara Harris told News2Houston that, "It was an accident." But Nassau Bay police said that they don't see it as an accident and said that Harris has been charged with first-degree murder. The incident happened shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Hilton Nasa Clear Lake, Nasa Road 1, in Nassau Bay. Investigators said that Clara Harris confronted her husband, David Lynn Harris, in the hotel's lobby. "She said that she was just distraught over the marital problems that they were evidently having," Nassau Bay Police Lt. Joe Cashiola said. The argument moved to the hotel's parking lot, where Clara Harris got behind the wheel of her Mercedes and ran her husband down, authorities said. "Officers arrived on the scene and found the victim had been struck multiple times with the car," Cashiola said. "Since then, we have brought the wife up here for questioning (and) during the interview she has admitted her involvement." Police said that Clara Harris had long suspected her husband was cheating on her, and that her suspicions were allegedly confirmed by a private investigator. "She has admitted hiring a private investigation firm to follow her husband around," Cashiola said. "So there was some type of history. We're still digging into that." Investigators said that David Harris' 16-year-old daughter from a previous marriage was in the car with his wife and watched him die. The couple had two other children, who are currently staying with their grandparents, authorities said. Both Clara and David Harris were dentists and lived in the town of Friendswood. David Harris' patients reacted with shock after showing up at his dental office in the Clear Lake area and learning about what happened. Clara Harris was taken to the Harris County Jail. She was released on a $30,000 bond. She hired attorney George Parnham to represent her. Parnham is best known for representing Andrea Yates, the mother who drowned her five children.
Answer
This would probably be a criminal case, but it depends on who the plaintiff is. Seeing as how George Parnham is criminal defense attorney and he is Harris' lawyer, the best bet would be to say that this is a criminal case.
This would probably be a criminal case, but it depends on who the plaintiff is. Seeing as how George Parnham is criminal defense attorney and he is Harris' lawyer, the best bet would be to say that this is a criminal case.
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