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According to the news story at http://presscue.com/node/39281 the US Court of Appeals in the DC circuit claimed Gitmo detainees are not "persons." According to one of the dissenting judges:

“There is little mystery that a ‘person’ is an individual human being…as distinguished from an animal or thing.” [Judge Janice Rogers Brown] added and concluded that majority’s decision “leaves us with the unfortunate and quite dubious distinction of being the only court to declare those held at Guantánamo are not ‘person[s].’ This is a most regrettable holding in a case where plaintiffs have alleged high-level U.S. government officials treated them as less than human.”

Of course they are. Who gives a crap about US law? They were born of this earth no matter what Rumsfeld thinks. He's a asshole.

Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights, co-counsel on the case, commented. "The entire world recognizes that torture and religious humiliation are never permissible tools for a government. We hope that the Supreme Court will make clear that this country does not tolerate torture or abuse by an unfettered executive.”

Is the Canadian boy still there ?

Of course the detainees are human beings ... HOWEVER ... because of the actions of some of them, it is difficult to judge these terrorists as anything BUT rabid animals.

Let's face it, in the animal kingdom it is the deranged animal that preys on it's own species. Others of it's kind, will attack and kill these predators, so why should it be any different for mankind to do the same thing ... if only out of self-protection? Whether we like it or not, we are also part of the animal kingdom ... our intelligence is the ONLY thing that sets us apart from the REST of the animal kingdom.

Watch this documentary:

http://www.torturingdemocracy.org

and then vote.