Comments on: Progress, of sorts http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/2168 Current affairs for a progressive generation Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:02:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Desi Italiana http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/2168#comment-124828 Desi Italiana Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:45:53 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/?p=2168#comment-124828 I mean, I know it is essential to have trials, but what if you can't even question the legality of the trial in the first place? Doesn't that seem like a rigged system? I think that maybe I am not understanding this situation all that well...? I mean, I know it is essential to have trials, but what if you can’t even question the legality of the trial in the first place? Doesn’t that seem like a rigged system?

I think that maybe I am not understanding this situation all that well…?

]]> By: Desi Italiana http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/2168#comment-124827 Desi Italiana Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:43:01 +0000 http://www.pickledpolitics.com/?p=2168#comment-124827 "“A US judge has ruled that the first war crimes trial at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, involving Osama Bin Laden’s former driver, can go ahead. Judge James Robertson dismissed a claim from lawyers for Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni, that it should be stopped while he challenged the process’s legality." I don't understand how this is deemed as a 'progress of sorts' when the request for challenging the process's legality was dismissed...? ““A US judge has ruled that the first war crimes trial at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, involving Osama Bin Laden’s former driver, can go ahead. Judge James Robertson dismissed a claim from lawyers for Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni, that it should be stopped while he challenged the process’s legality.”

I don’t understand how this is deemed as a ‘progress of sorts’ when the request for challenging the process’s legality was dismissed…?

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