There's something horrifying about how complete the denial of due process is for Guantanamo detainees, especially when you consider press coverage that frames the debate as one over "terrorist rights" rather than due process. Glenn Greenwald says just about everything that needs to be said about this, part of the problem with Guantanamo is that we don't know who is actually guilty and who isn't absent an actual trial, something that is apparently of little concern to many of the reporters and editors covering the issue.
But just so we're clear, even convicted terrorists have the right not to be physically or mentally abused to the point of insanity. If we can't understand that due process is part of the fundamental human decency that separates us from them, then I don't really know what we're fighting for. It's certainly not a free and just society, because that doesn't exist without due process of law.
-- A. Serwer
