Re: Right to trial

I rest my case...


psilojoe wrote:
> 
> Suppose in George Bush's reality God only gave rights to Americans, to
> justify the human rights breaches being comitted at Guantanamo Bay because
> we are 'at war' is absurd. Firstly this is NOT a  war against the Taliban,
> and never was, this is the Bush administration's religious war against the
> muslim world, can a 'war on terror' ever possibly hope to yield any
> successes? Are all those imprisoned in Cuba terrorists? Probably not a
> single one. When does this war end? Does mr Bush think that by bombing all
> these countries(who have plenty of problems to deal with anyway without the
> bombs) is going to make terrorists vanish? This planet is making a BIG
> mistake by using as its energy source a substance that destroys the
> environment and IS FINITE, what are we going to do when this resource runs
> out? Given that currently around 82% of all the world's invested wealth is
> invested in the business of ENERGY(ie oil) and there is almost NO serious
> research into renewable fuels that could power the planet in oil's absence,
> I think the world is currently blowing an enormous bubble, it's been blowing
> for nearly a century at some point this bubble will BURST and the world will
> become a VERY difficult place to live after that, how long do we have left?
> 40 yrs? 100 yrs? Well it will happen at some point there's only so much the
> planet can take, just KEEP BLOWING
> 
> > > Does it make sense to put people in
> > > a camp without their rights? Isn't it
> > > basic to our country that rights are
> > > 'god given'. Does that mean that God
> > > only gave rights to Americans?
> >