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Innocent to suffer.


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 Bush got his wish. The War Commissions Act of 2006 was signed into law October 17, 2006 ("Are YOU the Enemy?," October 30 issue). Barring the Patriot Act Patriot Act: see USA PATRIOT Act. , the Congress has never passed a bill that has so eroded our constitutional rights.

This is just some of what the bill allows: broad definition of enemy combatant Captured fighter in a war who is not entitled to prisoner of war status because he or she does not meet the definition of a lawful combatant as established by the geneva convention; a saboteur.

The U.S.
, no right to habeus corpus, arbitrary detention, unrestricted torture of detainees, all past acts of torture and abuse exonerated, military control over sentencing of detainees, use of coerced statements, reversal of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld For the case involving Guantanamo military commissions, see .

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004) was a U.S. Supreme Court decision reversing the dismissal of a habeas corpus petition brought on behalf of Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S.
, circumvention of Article 3 of the U.S. Constitution, and nullification nullification, in U.S. history, a doctrine expounded by the advocates of extreme states' rights. It held that states have the right to declare null and void any federal law that they deem unconstitutional.  of the War Crimes Act.

Defenders of human rights must be prepared for a long struggle against what appears to be an autocratic move on the part of the executive branch of our government. There are five groups involved in the governing of this country. They are legislative ... executive ... judicial ... the states ... the people. Yet it appears the executive branch is doing all the governing. Congress has failed the detainees (past, present, and future), and a great many innocent people are going to be made to suffer unnecessarily.

GREGORY STRAUSBAUGH

Redding, California
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Title Annotation:LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Author:Strausbaugh, Gregory
Publication:The New American
Article Type:Letter to the editor
Date:Jan 8, 2007
Words:196
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