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Britain
Archdruid criticizes Gitmo
2006-03-05
The Archbishop of Canterbury has launched a scathing attack on Guantanamo Bay, branding the US prison camp an "extraordinary legal anomaly". Dr Rowan Williams said keeping in custody people who had not been found guilty or allowed access to proper legal channels, set a dangerous precedent. He added: "Any message given, that any state can just over-ride some of the basic habeas corpus type provisions, is going to be very welcome to tyrants elsewhere in the world, now and in the future. "What, in 10 years' time, are people going to be able to say about a system that tolerates this."
Posted by:Dan Darling

#6  Doc Rowan is one of several reasons I quit the Episcopal church. #2 Nimble S. got it right. Williams the pious got it wrong, again.
Posted by: Inspector Clueso   2006-03-05 17:11  

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Maybe they made the wrong Rowan Archbishop of Canterbury.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-03-05 12:36  

#4  "Any message given, that any state can just over-ride some of the basic habeas corpus type provisions, is going to be very welcome to tyrants elsewhere in the world, now and in the future."

Riiiight. All those brutal dictatorships take their cues from us. And we all know how much they honor "basic habeas corpus provisions" already.

What a tool!
Posted by: xbalanke   2006-03-05 12:10  

#3  From JihadWatch

THE head of the worldwide Anglican Church, the archbishop of Canterbury, will reportedly mark the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks by praising Islam in an address from the pulpit of an Egyptian mosque.

Rowan Williams had accepted an invitation to speak at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, considered by many to be the Muslim world's most important centre of learning, Britain's Sunday Times said today.

'nuff said
Posted by: DMFD   2006-03-05 10:24  

#2  "What, in 10 years' time, are people going to be able to say about a system that tolerates this."

It endureth. Which is more than they can say for your church.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-03-05 09:42  

#1  What do these guys (AI, HRW, Druids) do, pass around the same Gitmo press release every two weeks?
Posted by: Raj   2006-03-05 09:21  

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