Close the Guantanamo Prison: Return to the rule of law

tim | Everything... | Monday, March 26th, 2007

http://www.angelfire.com/blues/writing/gitmoupdate.html

No president should ever be given the unilateral power to designate 
people enemy combatants and then have them locked away indefinitely 
with no prospect of being charged or tried. 
The prison at Guantanamo is damaging American values, and our 
reputation in the eyes of our enemies and our allies alike. It’s time 
to end indefinite detention without charges and shut down Guantanamo.

Email your Members of Congress: Tell them to close the Guantanamo prison.

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Last week, The New York Times reported that President Bush’s new 
Defense Secretary Robert Gates favors closing Guantanamo and 
transferring the prisoners there to the United States. 

And Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said, if elected president, he “would 
immediately close Guantanamo Bay, move all prisoners to Fort 
Leavenworth and truly expedite the judicial proceedings in their cases.”

The Constitution makes the president subject to the rule of law. Its 
drafters rejected dungeons and monarchies and chose a system of due 
process and checks and balances.

Take action: Tell Congress to close Guantanamo


  
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