I read another interesting article in the Jurist that was discussing the ramifications of the US government deliberately chosing to create a prison outside of the reach of its own court system. It says disturbing things about US democracy that they are looking for loopholes in their own laws.

Personally, I kind of feel like any government should be required to extend the rights of their own citizens to any person they are imprisoning etc. The US has allready decided that it has the right to kidnap foreigners and try them under US legal codes - how about taking full responsibility and offering those people a fair trial?

Not that I really appreciate the Team America! World Police! attitude...

But yeah, the blatant and shameless abandoning of a nation's founding principles is a little sickening to watch, and a lot sickening to live through.