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"A momentous victory for the rule of law, for human rights, and for our democracy"

A US federal judge has ruled that military tribunals for international terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay military camp are unconstitutional. This is just days afer Mamdouh Habib's lawyer charged that the Australian Government knew his newly-released client was being tortured in US detention at Guantanamo Bay:

"It was a facility designed to interrogate people. It was nothing more than a vulgar concentration camp and it has marked a new high in the rise of American fascism."

One particularly important moment in the sorry anti-democratic behaviour of (semi-) elected governments is the finding of the presiding American judge that "...the US Government has tended to rely on statements obtained by torture." The White House has refused to accept the finding, as it tends to do when challenged on the legality of its actions. The Law Council of Australia is also warning that these developments (repeated judicial criticism of the US military commissions, and the release of Mamdouh Habib) have placed "unprecedented pressures" on the credibility of the administrative and legal system: "it leaves us open to international condemnation and it leaves us, as Australians citizens, without faith in our own government." Exactly.

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