Scalia claims detainees have no rights

[mburbank]

Me personally? I think they have a right to a jury trial for a number of reasons.

No statement has ben made about how soon they could get their military tribunal. Some of them have been their four years and have had no access to a lawyer. We have already released some folks we said were totally innocent, which means any of these guys could be. The ones who the case is totally cut and dried should have gone up before a tribunal a long time ago. Holding people indeffinitely without charge is very bad, not just for these folks but for the united states. Deciding any bunch of people have no definied rights (not no rights, but no definition of what their rights may be, human or otherwise) is a very bad precedent to set.

Also, and I know I'm in a minority on this, I don't think we are at war. I don't think you can be at war on tactic. You want to say this is war, take all the Afghanis there (a place we might have legitimtely been at war with) and make them POWs. Everyone else should get a trial. No matter what they may have done (and where we have evidence they should be severely punished). Keeping people like animals in cge and leaving it up to future administrations to do something about is shameful.