Reply #3: First you must accept the fact that the people being interned are [View All]

actually eligible for US rights.

As the great philosopher George Carlin once said, Rights are ideas, they are as tangible as a breeze. What we really have are privileges and privileges can and often are taken away, compromised or done away with all together...

So you assume that the detainees are eligible for rights, that they should be treated as any American citizen or American resident even though the so-called crimes they committed occurred on the battle field, meaning anywhere the Bush Administration decided was a battlefield.

I'm just saying. It is not as easy as it sounds. Especially when you take into consideration the Right Wing which seems to be overly willing to play footloose and fancy free with everybody's "rights" in the name of national security.

I don't know. It will and should be decided in the court system but then again, that branch of the government is top heavy with nanny state conservatives who are hell bent on controlling thought, action and intent.