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Old 08-18-2017, 12:55 AM   #8154
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Originally Posted by MattyC View Post
Not sure if this has been brought up in here yet, but my brother and I were chatting about this over lunch and he brought up the idea that they should throw the guy who ran the car through that crowd into Guantanamo Bay. I thought it would make a brilliant statement. And then we obviously both agreed it would never happen under Trump, or anyone that could possibly wind up as President after all the dust settles here. Sad.
Couldn't happen. Anyone arrested for a crime committed inside the United States is protected by the Constitution - Miranda rights, Habeus Corpus, Trial by Jury, etc. etc.

What allowed Guantanamo to exist - in the legal sense - was that the people sent there were all taken into custody outside the United States for 'crimes' (in quotes as few, if any, of the people detained there have ever been charged or tried for anything) which were also committed outside the United States.

Sending anyone from the US to Guantanamo would be such a violation of the Constitution I don't think anyone would even try it. Every Judge in America would order that reversed.
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