In a highly unusual reversal, the Supreme Court has agreed to review whether detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, can challenge their confinement in federal court by filing what is known as a writ of habeas corpus. The announcement represents a rare change of course for the nation’s high court, which earlier decided not to take on the case.

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i watched the daily show tonight (thursdays) and it alerted me to the above – jon stewarts take on the dickhead known as g dubya bush was great – “the procrastinator”

in essence it was:

you’ve had a president for over 7 years now and suddenly 7 months before he fucks off he’s going to find osama bin laden, solve the middle east and stop climate change (and hopefully deflect questions about that er war he started..)

and if thats not enough to turn you off them, john mccain says that the supreme courts decision to relook at the fact that maybe human beings should actually be allowed a fair trial, is “the worst decision ever made”

so its ok then if someone comes into power somewhere – grabs you lot, sticks you in a camp and throws away the key – you’d be happy with that then ? – you wouldnt feel like hypocrites at all ?

the uk and the usa bleat on and on about terror and liberty etc but they are arguably as bad as
everyone else – arguably actually worse since they pretend its good for you

i’m sure i read somewhere a few years ago that the united kingdom had one of the worst human rights violations behind the usual 4 or 5 suspects – and the u.s. the past few years i’m sure has overtaken them

glass houses – stones anyone?

the whole point of common law is that we would all rather see 99 criminals go free rather than 1 innocent human not be denied the simple right of being able to defend themselves in an open way

i always say that if they put themselves in the opposite position for a minute none of this shit would happen

i just went to look at the john mccain website – i had a wtf moment:

just gobsmakingly “what are you on?” – i had to double take and assume it was a hacker putting up the pork game but no, its a game – did no one think “hmmm – that doesnt look very good that thing on the front page for a game – and why if we’re running for the highest office are we putting a game on the front page of our website?”

i watched his speech the night obama effectively won and hilary conceded – if you have brain cells in any way shape or form do NOT vote for mccain

god, if america votes mccain in – theres something seriously rotten in the state of denmark

tomorrow we’re offski to another ibiza rocks night – 4 bands this time – thought it would be san rafael again but its going to be the the ibiza rocks hotel. i’ll probably bus it down in the afternoon and have a wander around san an and do some wifi research – which will inevitably involve having to go into bars that have wifi….

also the video interviews that lorna did at the international music summit she’s putting up – they are fucking great – if i wasnt thinking i should behave myself i could have a field day

i really hope the ims release the audio of the clubs panel because people here and abroad need to hear it – andy mckays interview is great start – but it took us and lorna to bring it to the public – are you llistening the IMS ?

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