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Originally Posted by Ustwo
A German soldier captured in WWII was detained until after the war. He may have never fired a gun, or done anything anti-American, he might even be pro-US, but he still stays in a POW camp.
Padilla is an non-uniformed soldier of a terrorist organization. In WWII he would have simply been shot as a spy. He is lucky its not WWII and is only being detained.
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Well, just hope that it is never politically expedient for the government to declare you an "enemy combatant". For someone who seems to believe wholeheartedly in the incompetence of the government, you seem pretty willing to give them carte blanche to lock up citizens indefinitely under the vague pretenses of being an enemy combatant.