Comments on: Cyrus Kar released from Iraq detention

By: One year of homeland stupidity - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity

One year of homeland stupidity - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 06:56:08 +0000

[...] And not only is the administration detaining “terrorists,” or whoever they have in Guantánamo Bay, they’re even detaining Americans who have done nothing wrong. (After a lot of bad publicity, he was eventually released.) Today I heard that the Senate wants to prohibit aliens from exercising the right of habeas corpus, so that’s a story I will be following closely here. [...]

By: N. Mallory

N. Mallory — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:18:34 +0000

I’ve been quietly following this story for a while now and one thing that bothers me about it is that most of the media — even the so-called liberal-biased media — has pretty much let this story fade into the back pages. The other thing that really bothers me about it is that Cyrus Kar is not the only one and yet no one seems to be doing anything about it. People are being arrested left and right on fairly weak reasons and given no chance to defend themselves and are treated worse than actual convicted criminals. This apparently is the freedom we are bringing to other countries.

By: Chapomatic » Charles Johnson Was Right

Chapomatic » Charles Johnson Was Right — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:29:59 +0000

[...] So I’m loading what appears to be a very nice plugin in an attempt to recover my site (both from spammers and a mysterious inability to post), and the guy has a “homeland stupidity button”. The top article: Cyrus Kar, an American filmmaker who was being held in Iraq indefinitely without basis, was freed after being judged â€œnot an enemy combatant,â€? according to news reports published today. Based on the FBI investigation, the testimony of Kar and the witness he called and other witness statements, the board determined Kar was not an enemy combatant and recommended his release, which was approved. â€” Official statement [...]