The MSM in the United States are such a bunch of slugs.
This report from Dawn, Pakistan's English newspaper, is the most straightforward report I've read anywhere on the death of HC.
Abdus Sattar Ghazali puts on a writing clinic.
Here's the river!
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 19: The military tribunals legislation signed by President George Bush on Tuesday marks the first time in the history of the United States that the right of habeas corpus has been curtailed by law for about 12 million permanent residents or Green Card holders.
Although the debate about the new legislation focused on trials at the US prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it also takes away the right to go to court for non-citizens in the United States if they are declared `unlawful enemy combatants'.
Do you think more than 5% of Americans know this?
Till Oct 17, the principle of habeas corpus meant that anyone thrown into jail had a right to ask a judge to hear his case. He also had a right to go free if the government could not show a legal basis for holding him.
Is there a single American news outlet that reported the story this well?
In early drafts, the bill would have cut off habeas corpus only for unlawful combatants detained "outside the United States" and at Guantánamo Bay. However, the final version deleted that phrase.
Now it not only bars the men held at Guantánamo Bay from challenging their detention in court, but it closes the courthouse door to non-citizens (Green Card holders) who are arrested in US and held by the military as a possible `unlawful enemy combatant'.
The new law also defines this term broadly to include not just terrorists and fighters, but also people -- including American citizens -- who have "materially supported hostilities against the United States."
The coup de grace: Ghazali quotes a whole section from the US Constitution (once the light of the world).
Forgive me for quoting so much. Read more at Dawn and bookmark.