Photo Courtesy of CNN
Yaser Esam Hamdi was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on October 2nd 1980. He spent most of his life in Saudi Arabia, and has dual citizenship. He was captured by the Northern Alliance in the Afghanistan campaign shortly after 9/11, and turned over to the American military. The first detainee labeled as an "enemy combatant", Hamdi has recently been graced with a Supreme Court decision that indefinite detainment without charge or trial is not unconstitutional per se but just something that somebody may abuse as a power someday. Yaser is going back to Saudi Arabia by the 30th (by order of the Defense Dept.) on the condition that he renounce his U.S. citizenship and have "strict travel restrictions" placed upon him. Did you know that you can be born in this country and have your citizenship taken away by the Defense Department? That wasn't in the constitution I had to study for four damn years just to be eligible for a high school diploma.
By the way, I'm back, Blogger is a pain in the neck to post for now that they've "streamlined" things... but I'm back and will be posting... thinking about a Freedom week since this Hamdi thing has me riled.
