Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

The Supreme Court agreed with human rights advocates the world over that American kangaroo trials at Guantanamo violate international treaties, including the Geneva Conventions. The fact that even basic civil rights and judicial protections for fair trials are nonexistent at these military tribunals is unAmerican. It isn't what what this country stands for or what we are fighting for. For more information about these trials listen to this interview with one of the lawyers involved. Why are we fighting for democratic ideals when we're so quick to flush ours down the toilets of Guantanamo?

Today's decision is a victory for human rights. If Congress wants to retroactively legalize all the abuses being committed by this White House why don't they simply revoke all our international treaties and the remainder of the Bill of Rights they haven't already rendered null and void. Why isn't this Congress exercising any oversight and holding anyone accountable? They are beginning to remind me of the old Soviet Duma.