Detention of Terrorist Suspects

[Leslie Goldstein]

actually, of course, it is based on age, national origin AND gender.  This
thing is so depressing.  I have no problem with merely questioning (as
distinguished from locking up) based on this profile in light of the
circumstances.   BTW Congress has had lots of weeks in whch it could have
suspended the writ of habeas corpus, as to them, and it  has not done so.  I
have no problem with the Pres doing so, in an emergency when Congress is not
in session, but this holding people for weeks without charges with no
suspension of the writ is really an outrage.  And the worst part is that I
fear the Sup Court will do nothing until the sense of emergency has passed,
which could be years.  (unlike Rumsfeld, I count 1 1/2 years as "years" rather
than "months").  I was not old enough to know what was happening during the
Korean War.  Anyone out there old enough to remember the time of the steel
seizure and whether the country actually felt like it was "at war" when the
S.Ct. for the first time was brave enough really to insist that the Pres bcak
down?
leslie
Francisco Forrest Martin wrote:

> I just heard the most remarkable statement from Alberto Gonzalez, who is
> White House counsel, on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer.  Gonzalez said that
> the detention of thousands of terrorist suspects was based not on race --
> BUT ON NATIONAL ORIGIN or age.  Is this the best that the White House can
> get for legal counsel?
>
> Francisco Forrest Martin
> Ariel F. Sallows Professor of Human Rights
> University of Saskatchewan College of Law