"Chris H" wrote in message
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In message , J. Clarke
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Under what US statute do you believe that Clive Ponting could even have
been given a ticket, let alone arrested?

The ones used for Quntanamo?

If it might help to get things back on topic (but doubt it will)...

There was no "US Statute" used "for Guantánamo" -- I'm making the reasonable
assumption that you mean the laws by which the US State illegally imprisoned
human beings without trial, the abiulity to confront their accusers,
reasonable rules of evidence, and a myriad of other legal rights they claim
to be defending when they invaded Iraq. I say "illegally" because they did
so in defiance of their own Cnstitution, Bill of Rights, the Geneva
Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war, and Intenrational Law.

The US Constitution and Bill of Rights is alive and well as long as you're
middle American, white, and don't look liek a 'raghead' -- and not a 14-year
old Canadian Muslim boy in the wrong place at the wrong time!