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[bryant]

I’m really hoping this one is wrong. Certainly the term “death camp” is overblown rhetoric. The reality is bad enough. We can’t be executing prisoners without very open due process, and Guantanamo Bay is a closed system. No appeals, no juries. No spectators.

This is not an accusation. I do not say that the proceedings would be unfair; I can’t say that, because I don’t know who the men on the tribunals would be. What I’m saying is this: our system is an open one precisely because our Founding Fathers knew that it was necessary; it is an open system because we are expected not to trust the government’s unsupported word.

Proof of fairness is a burden that lies on the shoulders of the court. They must not refuse to take up that burden.

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[artbroken.livejournal.com]

Well. How often do you hear of the Australian press bandied about as a bastion of journalistic excellence?

There was a time when they were, but that was years ago.

I asked a friend who grew up in Brisbane her opinion of the newspaper in question. Once she stopped laughing, she said that it's generally 'about 1% news and 99% bollocks'.

Speaking as someone who currently lives in Brisbane, your friend was being generous. The Courier-Mail is garbage, pure and simple. I wouldn't even use it to wrap fish and chips with.