Guantanamo Show Trials Halted By Court

Bush will be angered to find out that activist judges have ruled he is NOT above the law and halted the unconstitutional show trials at Guantanamo Bay, saying the President overstepped his powers and went against the Geneva Convention.

"Stephen Saltzburg, a professor at the George Washington University Law School, said it was inevitable that a federal judge somewhere would find fault with the administration's approach "that you can keep people locked up for two and three years and you still don't really know who they are and why we're keeping them,"" reports the New York Times.

Remember, military court martials were begun in the first place because military commissions were considered unfair and prone to abuse. Can you imagine being held for trial where you can rarely if ever speak to an attorney and you aren't allowed to see the evidence against you? Talk about Kafkaesque.

This ruling is a great day for those who cherish moral values and doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. It's certainly an improvement over the sad spectacle of a day earlier. The panel's presiding judge continued to show incompetence and a lack of understanding of the law while it took an alleged terrorist to remind us of what America stands for.

"The Yemeni who appeared Saturday denied through his translator that he had any affiliation with Al Qaeda. He said the United States had no proof and "should know that a person is innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around." Throughout the hearing, the man, whose name may not be published under the conditions set by the military, complained, sometimes with sarcasm, that "this is like a game,"" reported the New York Times.