Place Bush Under White House Arrest
Re “Justices Question Denial of Hearings for Detainees,” April 29: Deputy Solicitor Gen. Paul D. Clement’s stance that suspected terrorists need not be set free even if the government does not yet have evidence of a crime is profoundly disturbing, an obvious abuse of government power, and flies in the face of the U.S. Constitution. What happened to the rule of law? Innocent until proven guilty? Right to counsel? Are police agencies to arrest anyone who may ever commit a crime but haven’t yet?
President Bush and his cronies have clearly abused the human rights of American citizens detained indefinitely for supposedly being “enemy combatants.” This is actual evidence of Bush’s criminal activity, not just a suspicion of a future crime.
Perhaps he should be detained and sent to Guantanamo Bay as well. I feel terrorized by this administration; it is more dangerous than any terrorist organization.
Michael W. Frishberg
West Hollywood
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