Props to the U.S. Supreme Court for making the right decision regarding Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, et al.
This was the case about whether the Geneva Conventions apply to prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. The Bush administration argued that the Gitmo detainees were not, technically, prisoners of war and, therefore, not eligible for Geneva protections.
At issue in the case was habeas corpus, the requirement that the government show legitimate reason to detain someone. Thanks to this ruling, the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay have come another step closer to receiving the same legal protections as you and me.
Fukken-A!
Now, I really hadn’t planned on writing about this decision. It seems so utterly obvious why Guantanamo Bay detainees deserve due process; I just figured it would be argued, re-argued and over-argued a million times in the opinionsphere before I could ever publish a single word about it.
Instead, I watched and listened as the right-wing blubbermongers blubbered on about how the court’s decision puts the rights of foreign terrorists above the safety of Americans, that terrorists aren’t deserving of habeas corpus because of their heinous actions and that the decision will cost American lives because the terrorists will all stampede out of Guantanamo like horses running from a burning stable.
