Monday, April 12, 2004

Defending the Evil Doers

The Center for Constitutional Rights is one of my latest sponsors. They're taking up the Guantanamo detainees' case, for which they were rewarded with death threats. Of course, in defending the Guantanmo detainees they're really defending the right of all of us to not be snatched up by a government - ours or another - and held indefinitely without charges. They're up against the Supremos on April 20.


I don't know everything about the organization, but I'm one of those people who thinks everyone deserves the best possible legal representation, no matter how horrible the charges against them are. They're also representing Maher Arar, the Canadian citizen who was deported to Syria.

And, of course, given the number of people who have actually been released from Gitmo after an extended stay, we know that not all of them were that evil...