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Re: Some wins for freedom from the Supremes
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Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:08:25 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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3 important cases today, although one would wish for wider findings (as
always)
http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5533972
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Certainly, along with the concession to
allow David Hicks to serve any sentence in Australia, these questionable
detentions seem to be heading in the right direction. Let’s hope the Military
Tribunals do not end up being
show trials.
ROSCO
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Tony B.Liar may be up for re-election next year. His closeness to Bush has
become a major electoral problem. To mitigate this, he is trying show he is not 100% lapdog. As a
result, the UK Attorney General noisily (and rightly)
rejected Bush’s Military
Tribunals last week:
“...there are certain principles on which there can be no compromise. Fair
trial is one of those - which is the reason we in the UK have been unable to
accept that the US military tribunals proposed for those detained at Guantanamo
Bay offer sufficient guarantees of a fair trial in accordance with international
standards.”
Does your PM accept the tribunals?
Scott A
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| (...) Yup. Indeed, as I understand it Australia is one of the few (perhaps the only) country with nationals involved who has NOT asked for them back. Apparently at the time our dudes did whatever undisclosed thing that they may at some stage be (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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