Subject: Detaining People Indefinitely, Even
After Acquittal, Plus A Little Torture A-OK With Republican
Majority Leader Bill Frist Because “We Don't Want Them To Have
Everyday Rights”
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:20:43 -0700 (PDT)
Detaining People Indefinitely, Even After Acquittal,
Plus A Little Torture A-OK With Republican Majority Leader
Bill Frist Because “We Don't Want Them To Have Everyday
Rights”
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist was the lead-off guest on
Hannity & Colmes last night (9/28/06) to praise the
just-passed bill innocuously described on the screen as
“setting rules for detainee interrogations.” The New York
Times, in a blistering editorial, said the bill gives
President Bush “the power to jail pretty much anyone he
wants for as long
as he wants without charging them, to unilaterally reinterpret
the Geneva Conventions, to authorize what normal people consider
torture, and to deny justice to hundreds of men captured in
error.” But there was no guest with an opposing view to
balance Frist on last night's show.
Alan Colmes didn't go into the torture provisions, nor the
fact that the bill grants, as The Times put it, “a blanket
waiver for crimes Americans may have committed in the service
of (Bush's) antiterrorism policies. Instead, Colmes focused on
the fact that ordinary Americans could be rounded up and held
indefinitely. “The president can decide not to release
somebody who stands trial and is even acquitted until the
perceived threat is over. Even if that person is acquitted.
This can apply to American citizens.” Colmes went on to ask
if Frist would be comfortable with that power going to the
hands of a Democratic president, “a power that's never
before existed in our government?”
Frist, of course, talked about “a new sort of opponent”
and, he claimed, “The American people will get it… We
don't want (enemy combatants) to have everyday rights of
American civilians right here.” In fact, Frist was wrong. A
September 15-17, 2006 USA Today/Gallup Poll found that most
Americans think the US should abide by the same Geneva
Conventions standards that apply to the US military when
dealing with enemy combatants.
Colmes countered, “But if someone is acquitted, they can be
detained.”
Frist agreed but, he said, the bill gives detainees “a lot
of rights.”
They must have reached their quota.
Interestingly, Hannity was quiet about the bill and focused on
the cloture vote to build a fence along the border and the
upcoming elections.
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