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The Tampa Tribune

Published: June 16, 2008

Regarding "Supreme Court Says Detainees Can Seek 'Relief' " (front page, June 13):

The Supreme Court's recent ruling allowing detainees held at Guantanamo Bay the right to an attorney and trial represents the very foundation of the democratic principles that make this nation so great. The ideology of habeas corpus is meant to be applied at all times, not just when convenient.

Many years from now, however, our children's children will ask us, after all that we have seen, from the Holocaust to the Japanese internment camps, and all that we claim to believe true as fighters for democracy, how could we have let this injustice stand for so long?

I only hope that, in time, the answers will come.

NICK SUSZYNSKI

Tampa

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