Men without a Country 0
The outrageousness continues:
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U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina issued the landmark ruling in the case of a small band of captives, known as Uighurs, who have been held at Guantanamo nearly seven years and are no longer considered enemy combatants by the U.S. government.
The United States is refusing to repatriate the Uighurs to China, since China considers Uighurs to be prima facie terrorists and rebels, and doesn’t want to admit them to the United States because, for some reason or other, they just might be bearing a grudge.
But today, an appeals court enjoined the order so that the government could “have more time to make arguments in the case.”
Note the argument was described, in the first link above, as using to keep these innocent persons incarcerated (emphasis added). It boils down to “King George the Wurst doesn’t want to.”
Justice Department lawyers had argued that only the president had the authority to allow the men into the country. They also said the judge was barred from ordering the entry of detainees if they had ties to terrorist groups.
Just because I haven’t quoted it in a while, here is the oath of office that King George swore:
Frankly, Pascal nailed it.
