he was tortured by police for two hours to sign a search warrant for them to search his home.  his wife recorded the entire ordeal.  the police have been convicted of violating his civil rights yet the case has recieved no national attention.  instead the supposedly 'liberal' media tell us torture is something that happens to terrorists in guantanamo.\n\naudio: http://wms.scripps.com/knoxville/siler/siler.mp3\n\nTranscript: http://web.knoxnews.com/pdf/silertranscript.pdf
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If they were convicted,what are you so upset about.It doesn't require national attention.
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so Greenpeace has been jailed? and you claim Bush is a liar! if you are captured on the battlefield, you are an "enemy combatant", not a suspect in custody, there is a vast difference. you have the rights guaranteed (if you're in uniform) by the Geneva Convention, not Miranda, understand? if you are not in uniform, then by the laws of war, you can be summarily executed on the field of battle without trial. this is not some new thing Bush made up, either. Major Andre, the Brit who took the plans for the defense of West Point from Bendict Arnold was summarily executed when he was captured because he was out of uniform. you libs really need to learn the laws before going off half cocked accusing someone of breaking them
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The US Government does NOT torture people.  They simply use harsher methods, such as leaving lights on 24/7, extended interviews and sometimes messing with the Koran or other things.  The Red Cross is angry at the US because our prisoners are in fact getting too FAT!  Ha!  Anyone think the terrorists are concerned about how much food our boys get when they are captured?  Heck no!  They are probably not even fed!  The fact of the matter is, we feed them 3 squares, give them exercise and do all sorts of things.  We do not electrocute or lash or behead or anything like that.  The MCA does NOT advocate torture, but harsher measures, measures, mind you, that are not contrary to the Geneva convention.  The US gov't realizes that torture does not provide reliable information, but more intense interrogations does.  And this is what works, and what needs to be done!
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why you call him nazi! because he fight the terrorrists of 911, because he made the afghanestan & iraqi people free and so.....\nI think you must reconsider yourself
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The U S went through a right wing coup in 2000 with a stolen election and a partisan appointment via the Supreme Court.\nAt this time our government is headed towards becoming a fascist police state - No habeus corpus, privacy or right to a fair trial - if the administration chooses it can have people secretly tortured.  Feels like Germany, 1933.
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by any means necessary !... these are terrorist  , not an army engaged in warfare with us.. they  do not deserve or are entitled to the  Geneva convention rights that are extended in war time. how do they interrogate the ones that they capture ???   BY CUTTING OFF THEIR HEADS !..   I don't recall that method of being part of the Geneva convention ... do you ??... so here we are  treating them  with   respect  and getting  no information  while they use any cruel means they choose  and does the media   focus on that?? no..these are criminals ,  not soldiers, and  these crimes  do not come under are justice system, they are not entitled to a lawyer or legal procedures  that  exist in our country..  these crimes are not taking place in our country.. if they were  then  they would be entitled   to and   fall under our legal system. its easy to judge   our soldiers based on  what the media chooses to report, with out actually being there ,  and experiencing what they go thru on a daily basis   while they are  attacked  by  these terrorists living in a country they are  there to help.Im not saying we should be as sick or as cruel as they are to us, because we are above that... but  we should have more freedom  to interrogate them  with out the media sitting on their shoulders and making judgements they have no right to do ( back seat driving ! )....that being said...  we should send hilary clinton over there and make them listen to her  presidential campaign speeches   she  is most likely writing..... that would  be cruel and unusual punishment for me ! lol....
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Abu Gharib ... ooooh scary, dogs barked at me, someone put underwear on my head, a woman pointed at me and laughed.  Big deal.\n\nGuantanamo ... tell me, what happened there.  FACTS, not the NewsWeek/60 Minutes lies.  Air conditioned rooms, 3 hots and a cot, meals made specially for them.  WOW that's real torture.\n\nHaditha ... you don't know what happened there, I don't know what happened.  All we know is that there has been an investigation, all of the Marines were given thumbs up on a job well done.  No soldier is being charged with anything.\n\nOK now let's look at the guys we are fighting:\n-using women/children as bombs\n-beheadings, kidnappings, REAL torture, rape\n-blowing up anything and everything with IEDs\n-these guys would kill you, your family, and everyone you know if you gave them half a chance\n\nSo before you want to wring your hands and shout THOSE POOR PEOPLE.  Look at the facts before you dump on Pres Bush and our marines and demand we leave.
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HE IS  A PIECE OF GARBAGE !!! He did it and there is no doubt he did it...Hell his own brother who was ther at the time refuses to testify on his behalf......\n\nIf you want the truth about this case go to http://www.danielfaulkner.com/
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I probably would've done the same. \n\nWhat lots of folks don't realize is that we put out a bounty in Afghanistan for terrorists. Think about it. We told a bunch of dirt poor Afghans that we'd pay them in American cash if they fingered Afghan terrorists. Of course they would turn in just about anyone they didn't know or maybe had an on going feud with, Al Qaeda or not.\n\nI'd be willing to bet that lots of Guantanamo "detainees" have been directly involved in terrorist activities, but when you consider all of those imprisoned without cause or evidence, other than the word of another dirt poor and desperate Afghan, it really is disgusting what we've done in Guantanamo. If their is real evidence to hold any of these people it should've been presented prior to their incarceration. After all, that is the American way. Right? \n\nLots of folks are awful pissed about 9/11 and I'm one of them. That doesn't mean we should throw due process, common sense, and our collective sense of humanity out the window in order to conduct another witch trial. In the end we'll lose by showing ourselves to be just as bad as the terrorists responsible for 9/11.
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Hey Del the yanks are answering,a guy is innocent till proven guilty,we are supposed to have human rights,obviously we havent got the the right to walk into town,the poor guy went to jail for that.These knobs should think of the family of the man.At the end of it all he was in jail coz they only thought he was a bad person.God bless him and his family
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they don't want to catch him. If they catch him who would they blame terrorist attacks on. I don't think he even had anything to do with the terrorist attacks. He is a terrible militia commander he could never of planned out the attacks of 9/11.
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I haven't seen a whole lot of information released about the prisoners being held in Gitmo. I don't subscribe to your assumptions about the people that are being held there. I think we don't really know who they are or what their involvment with terrorism actually is. The government might know but I haven't seen any information released.\n\nI'm also not convinced that if we released them all they would have written home and told their relatives how great America is. The 'greatness' of America and the Western world is a significant part of the problem for Islamic Extremists.\n\nYour statement is, in my opinion, naive. You assume that everyone is like you. That everyone holds the same values that you do.
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haha Exactly and one size fits all...If terrorist didn't love him why would they try so hard to help him. They almost had him a dictatorship.The war on terror turned out to be the greatest assault on freedom this country has ever had.
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I think he had a horrible childhood and became mentally ill towards the end. I mean the control had something to do with it but some of the things this guy did were unspeakable. I can't figure out why the people that did his killings and tortures forced themselves to do it unless they enjoyed it too. I know you do what your leader tells you but I would think all it would have taken was a bunch of people to just blow his a$$ away .
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I'm not weighing in on all the pros and cons of the Gitmo camp, nor am I evaluating whether or not the constitution applies to the Gitmo detainees or the permissions granted to Homeland Security to bypass certain parts of the constitution.\n\nI just want to make a couple of remarks.\n\nThe detainees in Gitmo who are true combatants and/or are members of al Qaida, and/or are Talibani, and who are not American citizens have no protection under the US constitution.  If they hold US citizenship, but were captured as combatants, they forsook that citizenship and are legally considered traitors as well as enemy combatants.   If there are US citizens detained at Gitmo and they are not al Qaida or Talibani, and were not enemy combatants, and were not captured in war zones of Afghanistan and/or Iraq, then they may have recourse to due process under constitutional law .\n\nHowever -- under Homeland Security and all the powers we granted to the department, constitutional due process is allowed to be suspended so long as it can be shown that a detainee does or did present a threat through action or conspiracy.\n\nIn short, we the people have said that in order to pursue the "war on terror," we will allow certain suspensions of and allowances or leeway in interpretations and applications of constitutional law including due process, habeas corpus, and much, much more.\n\nNow, as I said, I am not saying anything about what is right or wrong about anything involved in these issues, in terms of the constitutionality of many things done in the name of Homeland Security and the war on terror.\n\n\n\nI see it as unfortunate if Gauntanamo detainees chose suicide as an alternative to despair over their situation; however, only in so much as I feel regret over any needless death.  Furthermore, if their despair was due to their being frustrated terrorists or captured combatants in any ongoing war, I feel no sympathy whatsoever for their despair in that case.\n\nIf any or all sought to garner attention for their cause as detainees, I regret their choice of method.\n\nHowever, if any or all sought to muster support for their agendas as terrorists or combatants, then I hold them in the same contempt as I do their brethren, the suicide bombers who used their deaths to try to further their campaign of terrorism.\n\nLast, and I know this sounds cold,  but I feel much better knowing that a suicide died alone rather than taking others with him, like bombers are doing every day.\n\nP.S.  In times of war, it is customary to hold prisoners so long as hostilities continue, therefore it is entirely arguable that as so long as hostilities continue in Afghanistan and Iraq, then repatriation may be denied.  By extension, in the case of al Qaida members, as a group who declared war on the US and as a group without a nation, they present a special case wherein "repatriation" and "end of hostilities" are indeterminable by previous or traditional means and practices.  \n\nDo you want to return avowed enemies of the US to a status of active combat against us?
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Under current US law....\n\nThe prison is still open. Prisoners are held in US custody. They are denied access to the courts, in violation of the 1st Amendment right to petition. They are denied habeus corpus, in violation of Article I Section 9. They are often denied counsel, in violation of the 6th Amendment.\n\nThey cannot be tortured. However, the government interrogators get to define what the word "torture" means. \n\nThey can be tried in an irregular court, in violation of 5th Amendment Due Process requirements. Their coerced and compelled confessions (obtained during 'non-torture interrogation') can be used against them, in violation of the 5th Amendment self-incrimination clause.\n\nInformation obtained from out-of-court sources can be used to prosecute them, without any chance to cross examine, in violation of 6th Amendment requirements. They do not have the right to call witnesses in their defense, in violation of 6th Amendment requirements.\n\nAs to what the punishments and interrogation matters are, those are now classified. Nobody is allowed to speak of them, and the prisoners (even those released as not-guilty) are not allowed to file lawsuits challenging what was done to them.\n\nIn short, under the laws passed by the recent Congress, the government is not required to follow the Constitution. Despite the fact that the Supreme Court has said they do. \n\nAnd somehow, we still claim that we have the moral highground, and that the rule of law still matters.....
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He said he did it.  Duh!  And more than that the terrorists captured that couldn't make it with the rest were linked to Bin Laden.\n\nAnd, since Bin Laden isn't an American citizen (Thank goodness!) he isn't entitled to the right layed out in the constitution.