Timing is everything
Dec. 19th, 2003 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidThis morning NPR ran an op-ed about Saddam Hussein's trial, and his incarceration in the meantime, pointing out that he's being treated humanely, is likely to use the same lawyer his henchguy is using, etc. Ah, the glories of democracy, where even horrible nasty people get the same treatment that anyone else committing a crime would.
Of course, putting this right after a story about Jose Pedilla and how the Court of Appeals just rejected the Shrub's bid to have US nationals kept locked up indefinitely without being charged and without counsel, not to mention all the non-US nationals held at Guantanamo, made the lawyer in the second piece sound rather stupid, blindly supporting a system that doesn't necessarily work that way any more, unless you're famous enough to make it happen.
Of course, putting this right after a story about Jose Pedilla and how the Court of Appeals just rejected the Shrub's bid to have US nationals kept locked up indefinitely without being charged and without counsel, not to mention all the non-US nationals held at Guantanamo, made the lawyer in the second piece sound rather stupid, blindly supporting a system that doesn't necessarily work that way any more, unless you're famous enough to make it happen.