BoingBoing’s Xeni Jardin gets around, finally, to making this observation: “We are being lied to.”

Yep, we sure are. Finally, several days after I first heard part but not all of it, here is the link to This American Life’s Guantanamo report, “Habeas Schmabeas.” This is the one where part of it, in explanation of the origin of the legal concept of habeas corpus, entails a visit to Westminster Abbey. I was wrong about the guide, his name is Tony, and thus is not the same one we had when we visited the Abbey year before last.

And remember, the people Lord Clarendon shipped offshore, suspending habeas corpus, were those intolerant, wicked, stop-at-nothing, dangerous bastards, the Puritans. Strangely enough, I’m descended from Puritan stock on Pop’s side, but I thought better of it when I became an Episcopalian, thus returning to the fold of the second most evil church in their eyes.

Here’s something else called the “special Web extra: slightly longer version”

Via Boing Boing: Guantanamo detainees interviewed on This American Life

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