>>The US has denied these rights and many more to the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
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>I too am concerned about the rights of the prisoners at Guananamo. I do not know what the legal justification is, if any. However, the prisoners at Guantanamo are not U.S. citizens. I believe the guy known as the American Taliban, John Walker Lynde (sp?), was given those rights.
Whether they are U.S. citizens or not is quite irrelevant. The U.S. citizens are in no way superior to people from other countries. If you find it acceptable that the U.S. gives less rights to foreigners (1), then you would also have to accept that other countries give inferior treatment to U.S. citizens.
Notes: (1) I don't think you meant that, but I think it is worthwhile to explore this point anyway.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
