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mmcirvin ([personal profile] mmcirvin) wrote2006-09-29 05:47 pm

Balkin on unlawful enemy combatants

Jack Balkin explains in more detail how the Military Commissions Act could be used to indefinitely detain citizens. (I'm pretty sure this is what at least the administration intends, since it more or less ratifies what they did to Jose Padilla.)
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[personal profile] jwgh 2006-09-30 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
I understand that, as a matter of legality, citizens and non-citizens could be treated differently in this regard, but I have trouble in seeing how someone who had a moral objection to treating citizens in this way would not have such an objection to treating other people like that.

[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2006-09-30 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Right, it's the difference between "we're so great that these rights are prizes we deserve" and "here are some things our government doesn't do to anybody, because we are decent".