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Originally posted by filtherton
So what exactly are our "guests" in cuba. I guess what you call them is irrelevant since international law is apparently meaningless. Maybe under patriot 2, after american dissidents are expatriated we can expect to see americans down there. Wouldn't that be funny. What would you call them? I guess that would really only be an issue if they took the time to expatriate, since apparently Pat2 allows arrests to be made in secret and potentially criminalizes talking about such detainees. Apparently, regardless of how time is supposed to move forward, it still seems like we're getting closer to 1984.
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Technically they're "unlawful combatants," which was also used by FDR in the past.
We did see an American down in Cuba briefly, by the name of Hamdi. We then discovered he was an American, and transferred him back to the United States, into a prison in Norfolk Virginia. This is under the existing Patriot Act. He wasn't a dissident, just the second "American Taliban."
I would be very surprised if Patriot 2 allowed the US to expatriate citizens. I supposed that such rumors are to be expected, judging from the completely overblown coverage of the existing Patriot Act, and from the fact that only a leaked draft of Patriot 2 is currently available.
-- Alvin