A bill of attainder (also known as an act or writ of attainder or bill-of-attainder) is an act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial.


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So?

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declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial.

Gee that's so far fetched an idea... where would anyone get the idea of "declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial" is acceptable in the USA?

Ex-Bush official: Many at Gitmo are innocent

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday.

"There are still innocent people there," Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a Republican who was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, told The Associated Press. "Some have been there six or seven years."

"I'm very concerned about the kinds of things Cheney is saying to make it seem Obama is a danger to this republic," Wilkerson said. "To have a former vice president fearmongering like this is really, really dangerous."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29778047/

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Wow...so now the AIG bonus recipients are on an even par with terrorism related detainees? 


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What person or group of persons have been declared guilty of some crime?

Wow...so now the AIG bonus recipients are on an even par with terrorism related detainees? 

Susan, is that what you gleaned from my post? Anyone ever tell you how annoying you are when you are in attack mode? Pffttt!

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next consider ex-post-facto.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan

I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.