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ICE is Becoming a Nightmare

celticeagle @celticeagle (189838) • Boise, Idaho 6 Sep

The U.S. Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) and how it works now has become the most horrific and scary unit to come out of Trump's administration. With their masked military garb breaking into homes at all hours and picking people...

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Harry Reid Called them TERRORISTS! :~D

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 20 May 09

"I can't make it any more clear," Reid said. "We will never allow terrorists to be released in the United States." For years, Democrats have insisted that the detainees at Guantanimo Bay shouldn't be called Terrorists because...

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Could a Gitmo closure supporter please explain how this is any better?

jonesy123 @jonesy123 (3948) • United States 14 May 09

One of the first things Obama loudly proclaimed was that Guantanamo Bay will be closed. Well, that now opened a nice can of worms for him. Nobody wants those detainees. None of the US states wants them, definitely not living as...

military commission

military tribunal

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Some Gitmo detainees to be released into the United States?!

dragon54u @dragon54u (31633) • United States 19 Mar 09

I just read an article that says, among other things, this: ""For those who are in that second category, who can be released, there are a variety of options that we have. Among them is the possibility that we could release them...

traitorous administration

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KUDOS to Obama! ACLU miffed!

redyellowblackdog @redyellowblackdog (10629) • United States 9 Feb 09

Yes, it is true. While there is much with which to disagree with concerning Obama's policies, there is at least one area in which Obama is showing some good common sense in agreeing with former President Bush. President Obama's...

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thedogshrink @thedogshrink (1266) • United States 21 Nov 08

Does anyone know on what basis the Supreme Court decided that the Bush Administration must not hold prisoners at Guantanamo Bay without formal charges, etc? Because it appears that the Constitution does give him that right under...

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Guilt? Innocence?

Aingealicia @Aingealicia (1905) • United States 4 Mar 08

Let's say you dontated money to a company you did not know had attachment to terrorist activities. Or how about you decide hey I really don't like what the Government is following what I am paying them for. Better yet what if you...

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Go Cuba...Go

Aingealicia @Aingealicia (1905) • United States 17 Feb 08

For those of you who know me you know I am covering the Guantanamo Bay story. I can say after the disappointment I saw in the Court room for these mens lives, I applaud Cuba for doing what the rest of the world should be...

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I am so excited that I must share....

Aingealicia @Aingealicia (1905) • United States 13 Feb 08

I have been writing now for a very long time in my life. Since I was 9 years old. I have been a journalist, not really by choice at first, for 4 months. I can not tell you how excited I am that I have been invited to go to the...

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Have you been labeled?

Aingealicia @Aingealicia (1905) • United States 13 Feb 08

I am a writer as most of you know. I have been covering the Guantanamo Bay protest and my new article is up. My blog is listed upon my profile. I encourage you to read it so you know what is going on with this Guantanamo Bay...

Do we really want to return to this type of thinking?

speakeasy @speakeasy (4171) • United States 23 Dec 07

In the 1950's Edgar J Hoover had a list compiled of 12,000 American citizens that he want to "scoop up" and lock up indefinately on military bases simply because someone in the FBI felt they MIGHT be "potentially dangerous” to...

homeland security

security threats

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Chechnya- Where are the detainees disappearing to?

killailla @killailla (1301) • Canada 8 Dec 06

113 cases have been reported since 1999 of detainees of the Russian federal forces disappearing without a trace! Where are these people that are being detained going? What are your thoughts on the war in Chechnya - The "Dirty War"...

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Lawmakers, officials sound off on legal rights of detainees..What do you think?

mcc371 @mcc371 (918) • United States 7 Sep 06

Here is what was said on CNN. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-09-07-detainee-hearing_x.htm?csp=34

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