enter the fray: our reader discussion forum
The Fray Browse by Tags
Sign in
  
Advanced
All Tags » Constitution » Guantanamo Bay

  • Great Review of Some Important Books . . .

    . . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008

  • Orcs yet hope

    I'm as pleased as anybody that the gross Constitutional whackery of Military Tribunals is being confronted. But I cannot support a whole-hog trend towards praising military lawyers (JAGs) or the military justice system. In the current confrontation - with one exception that I will discuss below - JAGs confronting the Commission's minions (and even ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by odysseus on May 14, 2008

  • Why I'm an American in Exile...

    On June 13th, 2007, I received a death threat from someone claiming to be a member of the US Intelligence community. What was my ''crime''? I blew the whistle on the election fraud of 2004. Why did the CIA feel threatened by this? Because I revealed how they smuggled cocaine into the US using a front company called ''Skyway Communications''. ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by amerigobard on November 24, 2007

  • Unconstitutional?

    Our constitution does not guarantee rights to those who are not citizens. Therefore this whole article is based on a major fallacy. You can argue all day the ethics of Gitmo, torture, and any other real or perceived injustice committed by our government and military. However, calling military tribunals unconstitutional (tribunal have been ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by ahumanbean on August 7, 2007