Think before I post? ....maybe you're right. Nothing I could post would possibly compare to the intellectual gymnastics and acute reasoning of your reply, but I do my best with what I've got.

But here's what I think anyway. Without Habeus Corpus you are an enemy combatant because anyone says so. Pakistan is yanking hundreds of people off the streets left and right, turning them over to the U.S. with no evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever, and collecting millions in bounty money. People are being thrown into prison and tortured for months and held indefinitely without legal representation.

They just released some poor schmuck engineer from Canada after two years of abuse because someone decided he might know someone, who knows someone.

This is Orwellian 1984 shit. This isn't us. We're not war criminals....We don't torture people.