Any non-American citizen even inside the US can be kidnapped, taken to secret prisons, torutured, and cannot even appeal for judicial review. It is now legal. Writ of Habeas Corpus was a cornerstone of American judicial review as defined by the Constitution. Because the Supreme Court, on 29 Jun 2006, made George Jr admit to torture, secret prisons, and kidnapping, then the mental midget got Congress to make kidnapping and torture legal. Bill S3930, that people such as MaggieL avvidly endorsed, now bans the US Supreme Court from protecting Universal Human Rights. Its open season on all non-Americans. MaggieL is not alone in avvidly loving torture.
From the Washington Post of 20 Oct 2006:
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Court Told It Lacks Power in Detainee Cases
Moving quickly to implement the bill signed by President Bush this week that authorizes military trials of enemy combatants, the administration has formally notified the U.S. District Court here that it no longer has jurisdiction to consider hundreds of habeas corpus petitions filed by inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
In a notice dated Wednesday, the Justice Department listed 196 pending habeas cases, some of which cover groups of detainees. The new Military Commissions Act (MCA), it said, provides that "no court, justice, or judge" can consider those petitions or other actions related to treatment or imprisonment filed by anyone designated as an enemy combatant, now or in the future.
Beyond those already imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay or elsewhere, the law applies to all non-U.S. citizens, including permanent U.S. residents.
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How many in Guantanamo Bay are probably guilty? Eight definitely. Maybe as many as 40. And yet hundreds are held in direct violation of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights without even judicial review. Furthermore, hundreds more were finally released because of international pressure - and are not in prison anywhere because they were not guilty. One was a 13 year old boy. They were Muslim - nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition. Imprisoned for years because America now loves kidnapping and torture of anyone who is not an American citizen ... without judicial review.