Comments on: Yemenese Justice on Display http://jonathanturley.org/2009/07/09/yemenese-justice-on-display/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:51:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anonymously Yours http://jonathanturley.org/2009/07/09/yemenese-justice-on-display/#comment-66633 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:24:11 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=12646#comment-66633 Oh yes and the father came in and did what to him for doing that?

]]> By: seamus http://jonathanturley.org/2009/07/09/yemenese-justice-on-display/#comment-66621 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:54:44 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=12646#comment-66621 Much more barbaric and perhaps much more honest than our own system of capital punishement.

]]> By: david http://jonathanturley.org/2009/07/09/yemenese-justice-on-display/#comment-66615 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:42:09 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=12646#comment-66615 Last night, when viewing your article about the Obama administration’s “post acquital detention” policy, I came across an article that described the Defense Department’s statement that even after Salim Hamdan had served the 61 month sentence imposed upon him by a military jury (the govt had request 30 to life) they still claimed the power to detain him as an enemy combatant. They didn’t exercise this power, however, but released him to Yemen which released him last January after he served the remaining months of his sentence.

In other words, Yemen did what the U.S. government claimed it didn’t need to do: release Hamdan when his sentence was over rather than imposing “post acquital detention.”

In short, the fact that Yemen did what our government claimed it didn’t need to do, “tend[ed] to erase the moral high ground” of our nation. The fact that Obama is carrying on Bush administration policies regarding “enemy combatants” and others held indefinitely without trial erases it even more.

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