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Judges Dismiss Suit Seeking Damages for Guantanamo Torture | Center for Constitutional Rights
Judges Dismiss Suit Seeking Damages for Guantanamo Torture | Center for Constitutional Rights
In a 43-page opinion, Circuit Judge Karen Lecraft Henderson found that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a statute that applies by its terms to all “persons” did not apply to detainees at Guantánamo, effectively ruling that the detainees are not persons at all for purposes of U.S. law. The Court also dismissed the detainees’ claims under the Alien Tort Statute and the Geneva Conventions, finding defendants immune on the basis that “torture is a foreseeable consequence of the military’s detention of suspected enemy combatants.” Finally, the Court found that, even if torture and religious abuse were illegal, defendants were immune under the Constitution because they could not have reasonably known that detainees at Guantánamo had any constitutional rights.
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So, prisoners are not "persons".
And,
“torture is a foreseeable consequence of the military’s detention of suspected enemy combatants.”
We have become what we hate. America is now officially a terrorist state.
The Geneva Convention is the supreme law of the land... but our presiturd has destroyed every good thing that we are.
In a 43-page opinion, Circuit Judge Karen Lecraft Henderson found that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a statute that applies by its terms to all “persons” did not apply to detainees at Guantánamo, effectively ruling that the detainees are not persons at all for purposes of U.S. law. The Court also dismissed the detainees’ claims under the Alien Tort Statute and the Geneva Conventions, finding defendants immune on the basis that “torture is a foreseeable consequence of the military’s detention of suspected enemy combatants.” Finally, the Court found that, even if torture and religious abuse were illegal, defendants were immune under the Constitution because they could not have reasonably known that detainees at Guantánamo had any constitutional rights.
~~
So, prisoners are not "persons".
And,
“torture is a foreseeable consequence of the military’s detention of suspected enemy combatants.”
We have become what we hate. America is now officially a terrorist state.
The Geneva Convention is the supreme law of the land... but our presiturd has destroyed every good thing that we are.
posted by gr8fuldaniel | 2:02 AM
