May 1, 2007
DID SHE EVER STUDY LAW?
The Right To Remain Silent: Silence is about the only right the Guantanamo prisoners have left. (Dahlia Lithwick, May 1, 2007, Slate)
Nobody seems to mind all that much when the Bush administration nibbles away at the rights of the almost 400 prisoners still being held at Guantanamo Bay. Maybe we figure that if they didn't deserve the really important rights we've taken away (to speedy trials, say, or to due process in challenging their detentions), they can't possibly merit the lesser ones (such as the right to hunger strike or the right to an attorney).
By "taken away" she, of course, means "failed to invent out of whole cloth." Posted by Orrin Judd at May 1, 2007 9:22 PM
Comments
Since when has there been a right to hunger strike?
Posted by: GER at May 2, 2007 12:10 AMBy rights, they should be lined up and shot.
Posted by: sam at May 2, 2007 1:06 AMIf Al Qaeda came out against abortion, Dahlia Lithwick (among many other Lefties) would probably ask to be in the firing squad.
Posted by: ratbert at May 2, 2007 10:05 AMHow imperialistic of her to impose our Constitution and western ideas on them.
Posted by: Sandy P at May 2, 2007 10:47 AM
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