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American Life Lays it out on Guantanamo

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Don’t miss the brilliant This American Life episode “Habeas Schmabeas,” winner of a 2006 Peabody Award, which is now available for free as an MP3 for a limited time. The show is being re-broadcast this week.

“Act One. There’s No U.S. in Habeas,” is, in my opinion, the best part of the show: “Jack Hitt explains how President’s Bush’s War on Terror changed the rules for prisoners of war, and how it is that under those rules, it’d be possible that someone whose classified file declares that they pose no threat to the United States, could still be locked up indefinitely – potentially forever! – at Guantanamo. (24 minutes).”

Now that is journalism.

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  1. Not only did I enjoy learning only 5% of Guantanamo were actually caught on the battlefield and about the torture of innocent people “sold” to us by Pakistan, but I also loved the part about the American spitting on Darwin’s Westminster Abbey grave and the part about how Brit’s consider Putitains bastards.

  2. …in past years, This Americal Life has had a web site (something like thislife.org )that posted their shows.  Has that gone away?  If so, that is really sad, and it is merely indicative of the increase of the murcantilsm of public broadcasting.  TV has been obvious for years.  Radio, less so.

  3. Is there any doubt that the little prison in Cuba is practice?  What disturbs me is the fact that the Democratic Party leaders have made little opposition to the collapse of rule of law in this country.  As the definition of who should be incarcerated without access to law is liberalized, more people will be out of the zone of constitutional protection.  Were the Republicans to lose the presidency in 2008 will there be a change increasing human rights in this country? 

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    Can we hope to get the Democratic Party to champion the civil rights of all people?  Is it too late?  Is there a difference between the Republicans and the Democrats? 

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    Should there be a new “Freedom Party”?

    • … that made American Saipan a land of slavery.  The barbed wire, nightmare working conditions and forced prostitution was done by both Democratic and Republican administrations.  All aided by the silence of the press.

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      Who’s next?

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