The broader point from the Parhat case is that it is further evidence that - over the past six-plus years - the Bush administration has played on the fears and biases of Americans to justify the indefinite incarceration of Muslims despite a lack of serious evidence against them. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Religious state, religious hate subterfuged with a pretense of law. Parry comments on the indefinite long term holding of prisoners that was reprimanded by the Supreme Court. He finds a precedent for the bush fantasy world in a decision leading up to the case.
Fine - a very conservative judge has his limits. This is good journalism because it highlights a major problem in the administration's legal rationales by using an actual court decision rather than going to legal scholars. What it doesn't go into is the role of the media in dealing, or ratherk, not dealing, with the administration's handling of these cases. Generally they are ignored, or badly slanted. And generally, the 'war on terror' doesn't really get analyzed at all.
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