People accused of nothing could periodically question their detainment... HOORAY FOR JUSTICE!

Suspected terrorists could periodically question indefinite detentions 

CNN International - A proposed executive order would allow suspected terrorists held indefinitely to periodically challenge their imprisonment. Washington (CNN) -- The Obama administration is drafting new plans to hold suspected terrorists without trial indefinitely but...

So, let me get this straight. A proposed executive order would allow them to challenge their imprisonment... once in a while? Here's an idea - why don't we check and see if there is something like that already... hmm...

Aha! What about this? It's old, but it might still apply.

Ye Olde Sixth Amendment to the Constitution 

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence

I guess it doesn't really apply to 'terrorists', though. I'm sure if you read the Constitution thouroughly enough, there's a clause somewhere about which criminals to exclude from their rights.

Am I nuts? Does anyone else think that everyone else has gone crazy? Or is it just me? If everyone else is crazy, and I'm not, does that make me the crazy person, and everyone else normal?

Something to think about, I guess.

Quote of the day

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"