American Man Remains As 'Enemy Combatant' (denied appeal hearing)

[Rose Siding]

American Man Remains As 'Enemy Combatant'

RICHMOND, Va. -- A federal appeals court Wednesday refused to rehear the claims of an American-born man captured in Afghanistan who says he is being unconstitutionally held in a military jail as an "enemy combatant."

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had rejected the claims of Yaser Esam Hamdi, 22, in January, ruling that the government has wide latitude to detain people caught fighting against the United States on foreign soil during wartime. The decision overturned a federal judge's order for the government to present more evidence justifying such a detention.

Hamdi sought a rehearing before the full federal appeals court. The court denied the rehearing 8-4.

The designation "enemy combatant" strips a person of the right to counsel and allows the government to detain him indefinitely.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-enemy-combatants,0,6378171.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[Sick of Bullshit]

1. "The designation "enemy combatant" strips a person of the right to counsel

and allows the government to detain him indefinitely."

Every goddamn tinpot dictator's wet dream

[hedgetrimmer]

2. we are the government

we have detained this man, it is my right to know what i am doing with my government......

the PEOPLE must realize that we are the government... there is no "they" there is only we and i do not like what we are doing.....