On 2004-11-08T10:09:41-0500, John Kelsey wrote: > Kerry spent essentially no time talking about the creepy implications > of the Jose Padilla case (isn't he still being held incommunicado, > pending filing in the right district?), or the US government's use of > torture in the war on terror despite treaties and the basic > obligations of civilized people not to do that crap.
Padilla is still in the naval brig in SC, I suppose. The media seems to think he's still there, or at least thought so as of mid-September. They might be trying to do to him what they did to Hamdi, who's in Saudi Arabia as of a month ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaser_Hamdi#Release http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/thrd2.html (search for Hamdi, there are 8-10 messages about it) I don't know if Padilla has dual citizenship, so there may not be another country that would take him. Apparent citizen-less individuals (mostly citizens of other countries who won't re-accept them when the U.S. tries to deport them) end up being incarcerated indefinitely by the INS. -- The old must give way to the new, falsehood must become exposed by truth, and truth, though fought, always in the end prevails. -- L. Ron Hubbard
