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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

"[edit] Scope of the Act
Sec. 948b. Military commissions generally

(a) Purpose— This chapter establishes procedures governing the use of 
military commissions to try alien unlawful enemy combatants engaged in 
hostilities against the United States for violations of the law of war and 
other offenses triable by military commission. "

****Note "alien unlawful enemy combatants". 'not' "joe the citizen"

    &

****SCOTUS has ruled that 'section 7 " of the Act is unconstitutional, though 
you wouldn't know it by going to the ACLU site.  This is just fund-raising 
fodder for them - ignore their propaganda. By the way, I still don't know 
what section 7 is, but evidently that is what was found most objectional by 
the plaintaffs seeking habaeus corpus.

 The Constitution does 'not' specifically give any rights to foreign 
combatants who are fighting against us on foreign soil.  It just does not.  
This Act maight be good or bad depending on your view of "human" rights in 
war.  But it does not conflict with the Constitution. .....bobford


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--- On Fri, 10/31/08, paxamicus AT earthlink.net <paxamicus AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: paxamicus AT earthlink.net <paxamicus AT earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Stealing an Election-Big Picture
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 7:52 PM
> As far as I know, Boumediene v. Bush was about military
> detainees, it  
> did not impact the Military Commissions Act, which is what
> constitutes  
> denial of habeus corpus to the average, begging your
> pardon, Joe the  
> Plumber. And anyway, he issued some signing statement after
> Boumediene  
> that negated what the SCOTUS said, anyway.
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 31, 2008, at 5:26 PM, bob ford wrote:
> 
> > The reach of habeas corpus is currently being tested
> in the United  
> > States. Oral arguments on a consolidated Guantanamo
> Bay detention  
> > camp detainee habeas corpus petition,
> >
> > Al Odah v. United States were heard by the Supreme
> Court of the  
> > United States on December 5, 2007. US courts'
> jurisdiction was  
> > altered by Congress in HR 1955, The Violent
> Radicalization and  
> > Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007.
> >
> > On June 12, 2008, the Supreme Court ruling in
> Boumediene v. Bush  
> > recognized habeas corpus rights for the Guantanamo
> prisoners. On  
> > October 7, 2008, the first Guantanamo prisoners were
> ordered  
> > released by a court considering a habeus corpus
> petition.[3]
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus
> >
> >
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