FNC's Napolitano discusses the legal ramifications of trying detainees in the U.S.
May 21, 2009 2:34 pm ET
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Somebody on FOX "News" actually making sense. I'm shocked!
I'm not bothering to listen to the loud mouth in the video clip, but just on the few printed words that accompany this item, I can say generally that people should not be brought before a Judge in the U.S. Courts, and before a Jury of U.S. Citizens (obviously in a Court in the United States of America), for something anything whatever, that did not occur in the United States...
Now that may not hold for all instances, and so I will reduce it only to this particular matter, of the detainees held in CUBA of all freaking places!
Whatever that motley crew of idiots down there in CUBA are supposed to have done, unless it was done in the United States, they should not be brought before a U.S. Judge whose Court has a Jurisdiction in the United States, or before a Jury of Citizens who also are of course in the United States... people should be tried and judged in the place where they did the thing they supposedly did, and before a Jury of peers who because of where they live, would consider the thing supposedly done to be done against them, or against their neighbors or fellow countrymen...
Again, this motley crew of toothless brainless idiots down in CUBA, if they did something in Afghanistan for example, then Afghanistan is where they should go to be tried, and they should never have been taken from that Jurisdiction to CUBA of all places what the freak sense did that make?
It makes about as much sense to think you, an American Citizen, should be called to Jury Duty in your County, and seated on a Jury and together with a Judge of that District, try someone for something they did in Afghanistan... that makes about as much sense as to conduct a trial in Afghanistan, by an Afghani Judge and with an Afghan Jury, for something supposedly done in the United States.
One point he emphasizes is that the Bush Administration screwed up by putting the prisoners in Guantanamo in the first place. They apparently did it expressly for the purpose of avoiding Constitutional restrictions.
Of course, that doesn't solve the problem going forward, but it is progress for someone on FOX to admit that the Bushies created the mess we're now trying to clean up.
Cool and thanks Nerzog, I'd rather have read it from your words, than listened to it from a Fox video clip... and sure, we should not neglect to discuss the stupidity of taking those people from the country in which they did whatever it was they supposedly did, and removing them to CUBA of all places... that's the beginning of this mess, and while we move forward, we can and should keep reminding ourselves whose freaking disaster of a mess this was in the first place, surprise and thank you very much George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and the many criminal hacks who made up their administration!
As far as I'm concerned, I can see no reason why these people at CUBA can't be taken back to the place they were snatched from originally, and be dealt with there... I guess we required nobody's permission to take them from that place, and so why would we be required to get someone's permission to take them back... and if the local authorities in the place where these 'detainees' did whatever they supposedly did, if those authorities don't want them, then fine, release the bastids anyway, if the Jurisdiction of their offenses doesn't want to hold them accountable, then fine, release them... and if they were supposed to have done something against U.S. Troops, then still they should never have been removed from that Jurisdiction in the first place, to CUBA of all freaking places!
Thanks a lot George W. Bush, is there anything you didn't screw up and leave behind you for others to deal with?
Sounds like grounds for another investigation... not that it'll ever happen.