What would you do right now about Guantánamo Prison? If you had the power to do it would you send them all home? Regardless of the consequences some of them may face in their home countries? Continue with the trials? What should we do? The next President will have to face this question.
This made me think about it:
Chinese Leave Guantánamo for Albanian Limbo
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/world/europe/10resettle.html?_r=1&hp&oref=sloginThe men who arrived there were given chores to do and beans to eat. Most of them were assigned aliases and shown how to fire an old AK-47 assault rifle, the only weapon they saw. One American intelligence official said that some of the Uighurs still at Guantánamo received more extensive training. The leader of the hamlet, a man called Abdul Musin, told visitors that they could stay on if they wanted to “liberate” other Uighurs, the men said, but that they were also free to go.
We want other countries to hand over terrorists with a hard-on for the US, but won't give the Chinese terrorists that have it in for them?
Yea, I know what you are saying.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
I would releast the innocent and send the questionable to regular prisions.
That's the problem, where do you release them?
I would grant them due process.
Have the strength of our convictions.
I would grant them due process.
Have the strength of our convictions.
Ok, grant them "due process" as we would legal citizens of the US, then what? What do you do with the ones that are guilty and the ones that are not-guilty? Where do they go? Does Gitmo become the next Alcatrez or Devil's island?
It becomes a prison and we give them full international prisoner rights under all treaties, the Red Cross and The Geneva Convention. Exactly what we want for Americans captured.
Again, strength of our convictions.
Again, give them everything we would demand for Americans captured by an enemy.
What happens to Gitmo' isn't really the issue, doing what is right is the issue.
That's the problem, where do you release them?
Mexico, turnabout is fair play!
Powell Calls for Closure of Military Prison at Guantanamo
(reg required, but you can put whatever you want in the fields)
Former secretary of state [COLOR=#0c4790]Colin L. Powell[/COLOR] said yesterday that he would close down the [COLOR=#0c4790]U.S. military[/COLOR] prison for enemy combatants at [COLOR=#0c4790]Guantanamo Bay, Cuba[/COLOR], "this afternoon" because it has become a major problem in "the way the world perceives America."
"Essentially, we have shaken the belief that the world had in America's justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open and creating things like a military commission," Powell said on [COLOR=#0c4790]NBC[/COLOR]'s "Meet the Press."
Making it clear that he "would not let any of those people go," Powell said, "I would simply move them to the [COLOR=#0c4790]United States[/COLOR] and put them into our more federal legal system." He said he sees no problem in detainees having the right of habeas corpus and getting their own lawyers. "Isn't that what our system is all about?"
[Colin Powell] said he sees no problem in detainees having the right of habeas corpus and getting their own lawyers. "Isn't that what our system is all about?"
And that, ladies and gentlemens, is the stinking problem with George W. Bush. And to think I actually wanted him to win last time around.
I admit it. It was a horrific mistake and I made it.
Court overrules Bush 'enemy combatant' policy
Judges: President may not detain immigrant in U.S. without charging him
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19172214/