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Originally Posted by almostaugust
This week PM Tony Blair made a formal apology to the Guilford Four and Macquire Seven.
It's great that Blair has issued this apology. I also think that this case should serve as a glaring example of how the erosion of human rights and legal safeguards can destroy people's lives. Everybody deserves the right to a fair trial, guilty or not. This Guantanamo Bay situation seems like it could spawn the same problems, except of course in England the terrorists were being held for 5 days without proof requirement, it could be years before we find out more info about the people locked up in there. What do you think?
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Dude, you understand that the Gitmo prisoners were picked up on the battlefield in Afghanistan, right? They're not hard working people rounded up in the US and brought there without due process.