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Dec 2nd, 2007 at 7:39 am by Susie

Seems like we keep discovering new “rights” all the time, don’t we?

Posted in Blind Justice, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, IOKIYAR, Just a Goddamn Piece of Paper, Politics As Usual, The Regime

5 Responses to “Creeping Fascism”

on 02 Dec 2007 at 10:40 am1somegirl

gawd, that story freaked me out!

how’s the new pad, susie?
on 02 Dec 2007 at 11:28 am2Susie

Once I can actually see it again under all these boxes, I’m sure it’ll be very nice. Did you get snow last night, too?
on 02 Dec 2007 at 2:29 pm3Lionel

To be fair to the Bushies, we’ve claimed this right since the early 90s, IIRC. There was a Supreme Court case about a doctor (who was used as a torturer by drug lords) kidnapped from Mexico to stand trial in the US for the torture and murder of a DEA agent. The SCOTUS decided that it was legal for us to do it.

I suspect we’re using this “right” much more broadly, now, though.
on 02 Dec 2007 at 6:15 pm4Izquierdo

There was a Supreme Court case about a doctor (who was used as a torturer by drug lords) kidnapped from Mexico to stand trial in the US for the torture and murder of a DEA agent. The SCOTUS decided that it was legal for us to do it.

So if we can kidnap amd prosecute furriners for torture,
can they do the same to us?
on 02 Dec 2007 at 7:24 pm5Lionel

I knew I’d read that case in law school.

U.S. v. Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. 655 (1992). Opinion by that noted lover of civil liberties, Placidyl, and fluffy bunnies, C.J. William Rehnquist. (Incidentally, Dr. Alvarez was acquitted at trial, then tried to sue the U.S. Government for his kidnapping. Naturally, the Supreme Court threw the suit out. See Sosa v. Alvarez (2004))

Izquierdo– of course we can’t allow our citizens to be kidnapped. That’d be grounds for war! (See War of 1812)

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