Michael Orta
CPO 2001
T/R 8:35a.m.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Guantanamo Bay prisoner rights
The question that has been asked by many in these times of war is why the prisoners that were held in Guantanamo Bay did not have a right to a fair trial if they were being held in a U.S. prison by U.S. law. The men held at Guantanamo were sent lawyers but the lawyers by law were not allowed to discuss the case the U.S. was building against them. They could not even see their own file the U.S. made on them. Why should these men not have the right to a fair and speedy trial as mentioned in the Bill of Rights.
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As a recently deceased political philosopher once said in a televised speech, "You don't have rights you have privileges" (rough quote but that is the idea). That man was the great George Carlin and his absolutely right, the aren't rights, we call them that but they are privileges. Take free speech, you don't have it, you can say a lot but cuss out a cop see what happens. Habeus Corpus can be snatched away, search and seizure is long gone. But hey we are the home of the free.
Michael Desilets
CPO 2001
T/R 8:35
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