• silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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    10 months ago

    Because in the US you have some recourse to the courts. In a foreign one, the current Supreme Court seems to think you don’t.

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      10 months ago

      That was the entire point of Guantanamo, to keep people outside the legal system.

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      10 months ago

      In a foreign one, the current Supreme Court seems to think you don’t.

      This precedent isn’t current. It goes back to Gitmo and likely a bit before that. We just had twenty-five years of liberals kinda shrugging and insisting these kinds of horrifying totalitarian impulses are reserved for brown people and particularly poor whites, not anyone who matters.