I guess the self-evident truth that all men are endowed with certain unalienable rights is lost on teh Americans.


@Pindar and Soulforged. You two are responding with legal arguments to HoreTore. Or dare I say, legalistic. He initially did present his case as a legal argument, while failing to come up with a legal argument. But he changed to the sphere of legal philosophy in his last post. If you two tireless legal positivists are Hart, he is now Dworkin, if I remember them right.
HT's latest position can not be dismissed anymore by your repeating that the UDoHR carries no direct legal status. That would suffice in a court of law, but he is now arguing from a natural law position that no legal position that goes against the UDoHR carries, or rather, should carry, legal status.
I for one wouldn't mind hearing a legal philosophical rebuttal from either of you two (former) law students that says he's wrong in this.
It has no direct bearing on the current topic. Gitmo is tiresome and I don't feel like getting into it.