Habeus Corpus

In 1990, I remember being a freshman in high school wondering what I was going to do with the rest of my life and checking out the girls in the upper class. I didn’t have a care in the world because I had grown up in a country where we were free as citizens and had the opportunity to make something of ourselves, regardless of how we may have come up or what environment we grew up in. I remember seeing a news story about Sadaam Hussein accused Kuwait of stealing oil from one of Iraq’s oil fields near the border and I laughed. I thought to myself, “who cares, you guys are that close to each other, you should share it anyway”.   I blew it off as another incident in some other country that didn’t care about its people. Then a couple of days later, my mother told me that there was a war brewing in the Middle East because of oil and then it hit me; the story I saw previously was a lot more serious than I thought it was. This was the start of the Iraqi war and a precursor to the September 11, 2001 attacks which was the fuse that lit our next conflict Enduring Freedom/Iraqi Freedom. Throughout these conflicts, there have many prisoners of war, whether friendly or enemy. Some of these individuals have been detained in detention centers for years with no trial or relief which could be viewed as a grave injustice. A majority of these prisoners have been held at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba which has no diplomatic relations to the Unites States because of its location. Being that Guantanamo Bay is not on US soil but is run by US Service members, should Habeas Corpus still exist for those who are detained there?   Though the Justice system is flawed when it comes to Habeas Corpus, there has to be measures in place to ensure that everyone is treated with equality, regardless of determined status. Today, I will attempt to show the history of Habeas Corpus, how it is used and why it is not fair that people, who are under US control, are denied the right to use it. By the end of...