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 For quite some time, I have been going through my own stuff. What is it about, I am not certain yet. I do know that a change is about to happen in my life, and what it is, I am not sure. I can feel as through I am pregnant right now, and am starting to get very impatient. (How patriarchal of me.)
So for now I am letting things simmer and stew. Being on a little Vacation right now is also helping.
In the mean time, I have subscribed myself to several other Podcasts through Itunes. (Just as you are hopefully subscribed to the Hot Nude Yoga Podcast through ITUNES.)
I can across this one from American Life. It was a very emotional Podcast on the Habeas Corpse and the "war on terror."
I think some of why I have been so unsettled as of late, is because I see all what is happening in the world and ask myself all the time, what I am really doing to help. Sometimes I think that HNY is helping, but is it? I don't know what I can do, and I don't even know if I will or can do anything right now. But these are things I am podering.
I am invite you to read below, and check out the podcast. You can subscribe to American Life through Itunes.
Namaste
Aaron
An updated version of our episode "Habeas Schmabeas," which won a 2006 Peabody Award.
For a limited time, you can  download an mp3 of this episode for free! It's our special, uncut version containing several minutes of additional material.
Also, you can also download a transcript.
The right of habeas corpus has been a part of our country's legal tradition longer than we've actually been a country. It means that our government has to explain why it's holding a person in custody. But now, the war on terror has nixed many of the rules we used to think of as fundamental. At Guantanamo Bay, our government initially claimed that prisoners should not be covered by habeas—or even by the Geneva Conventions—because they're the most fearsome enemies we have. But is that true? Is it a camp full of terrorists, or a camp full of our mistakes?
Prologue.Joseph
Margulies, a lawyer for one of the detainees at Guantanamo, explains how the detention facility there was created to be an ideal interrogation facility. Any possible comfort, such as water or natural light, is entirely controlled by the interrogators. (3 minutes)
Act One.There's No U.S. in Habeas.Jack
Hitt explains how President's Bush's War on Terror changed the rules for prisoners of war, and how it is that under those rules, it'd be possible that someone whose classified file declares that they pose no threat to the United States, could still be locked up indefinitely — potentially forever! — at Guantanamo. (24 minutes). Clarification: When Seton Hall Professor Baher Azmy discusses the classified file of his client, Murat Kurnaz, in this act, he is referring to information that had previously been made public and published in the Washington Post. That material has subsequently been reclassified.
Act Two. September 11th, 1660.
Habeas Corpus began in England. Recently, 175 members of the British Parliament filed a "friend of the court" brief in one of the Supreme Court cases on habeas and Guantanamo, apparently the first time that's happened in Supreme Court history. In their brief, the members of Parliament warn about the danger of suspending habeas: "During the British Civll War, the British created their own version of Guantanamo Bay and dispatched undesirable prisoners to garrisons off the mainland, beyond the reach of habeas corpus relief." In London, reporter Jon Ronson, author of Them, goes in search of what happened. (6 minutes)
Act Three. We Interrogate the Detainees.Although
over two hundred prisoners from the U.S. Facility at Guantanamo Bay have been released, few of them have ever been interviewed on radio or television in America. Jack Hitt conducts rare and surprising interviews with two former Guantanamo detainees about life in Guantanamo. (20 minutes)
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