02 Jan 2005
Senator Says Lifetime Terror Detentions 'Bad Idea'

I am ashamed that my government would even consider such an idea: but given the current political leadership, I can't say I'm shocked. The fundamental principle of the American experiment is that of equality before the law. Imprisoning someone without so much as even charging them with a crime, much less convicting them had another name in past centuries. It was called enslavement. And by so doing we are becoming no better than our enemies.

Reuters - A reported U.S. plan to keep some suspected terrorists imprisoned for a lifetime even if the government lacks evidence to charge them in courts was swiftly condemned on Sunday as a "bad idea" by a leading Republican senator.

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