Gitmo, what to do and why?

ZenGum · 12-09-2007, 09:34 PM

Hiya Bruce!
A large number of Australians object to the mandatory detention of asylum seekers either within Australia or under the "Pacific solution" (awfully Nazi-sounding name isn't it?) of paying Nauru to house them in a camp in their country rather than in Australia. I am one of the objectors.
Conditions are reported to be, well, like a prison. Not so harsh as Gitmo, and no interrogations (as far as I know), but even children would be locked up in this way.

That said, the prison camps had a procedure for assessing asylum claims, and the very large majority were eventually granted.

As for the remand point - don't all countries do that? Does the USA? Assess at the bail hearing, if the person is apparently dangerous or a flight risk, they are held (not, as your quote states, in the "regular" prison system, but in remand centers, which are very prison like).

View Poll Results: What to do next, share your thoughts and why.
Business as usual, let them rot.	1	6.25%
Trials based on the US Civilian system, civilian judges, lawyers, Habeas Corpus, etc.	6	37.50%
Trials based on Military system of tribunals, but get on with it.	5	31.25%
Guess who is the worst of the lot, release the rest without condition, goodbye, please do not write.	0	0%
Send the lot home, turn out the lights, where they go and what they do not our concern.	4	25.00%
Drop a tactical nuke on the place after pulling out all the US troops, let them meet their maker.	0	0%
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12-09-2007, 09:34 PM	#15
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Hiya Bruce! A large number of Australians object to the mandatory detention of asylum seekers either within Australia or under the "Pacific solution" (awfully Nazi-sounding name isn't it?) of paying Nauru to house them in a camp in their country rather than in Australia. I am one of the objectors. Conditions are reported to be, well, like a prison. Not so harsh as Gitmo, and no interrogations (as far as I know), but even children would be locked up in this way. That said, the prison camps had a procedure for assessing asylum claims, and the very large majority were eventually granted. As for the remand point - don't all countries do that? Does the USA? Assess at the bail hearing, if the person is apparently dangerous or a flight risk, they are held (not, as your quote states, in the "regular" prison system, but in remand centers, which are very prison like). __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

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