Hmmmm.........was it the omniscient act of He Who Shall Not Be Named? Or was it result of one youngster's whiz bang hissy fit, picking up his ball and going home?
lutan,
No worries mate, no judgments here. I like Aussies, you're a straight forward bunch of alcoholicscriminal descendants inebriated bastards nice folks. Apparently some of your pups just need a bit more beating discipline.
Lutan,
A month in Oz and I needed to detox for 6. WHAT is it with you aussies and skulling your drinks? Cripes, it's like you're afraid someone is going to come and steal your drink.
Mark,
The toilets I used didn't appear to flush one way or the other, some damn Aussie crapper that just flooded the toilet from all sides and drowned the poop. Apparently water conservation is NOT an issue in Oz.
Then again, I was lucky to be staying at a place that actually had indoor plumbing.
Norm, please don't take this so literally. I'm sure that the SEAL Team 6 "disbanding" was strickly a disinformation move. The same operators at DevGru or whatever they want to call it did the same job for the same reasons after the team was supposedly disbanded.
That's the way some of the cloak-and-dagger stuff works.
BZ - not a SEAL, just a retired firefighter, but he is definately one of the good guys!
1) Habeus corpus applies to criminal law, not to prisoners of war. Terrorists are prisoners of war, so your well-researched points about habeus corpus are moot when those terrorists are aliens.
2) The Constitution does not now, nas not, and never will give the same rights to enemy combatants as it does to criminal suspects.
Thus, your last point is moot, because no liberty has been given up by anyone to whom your research applies.