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Zensee -> RE: Guantanamo: dont send me home ! (11/13/2007 5:08:14 PM)
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ORIGINAL: seeksfemslave
Zensee: an American govnt spokesperson on the programme said that it would put too many people at risk if the US govnt had to reveal in open court the source of the info. that caused the US to hold these err err philosophers. lol
Surely even you can recognise that something is not quite right when they, the Gitmo detainees, dont want to be sent home?
I agree something is not right when some illegal detainees don't want to be delivered into the hands of governments even less concerned with human rights and the rule of law than the Greatest Contry in the World is.
The national security argument can be used to trump all objections to fair trial. That does not mean there actually is any real threat to security posed by reasonably open trials of the accused. Trials could be held in a way to provide reasonable protection of both security and the right of an accused person to be heard. Conveniently we may never know.
However, if they have no grounds to hold certain persons and admit as much by repatriating them, then they have a duty of care not to return innocent people to peril.
The Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, is a case in point, even though he never went to Gitmo. He was sent to Syria where, on the merest whiff of suspicion by the Canadian and US governmemt, was subject to imprisonment and torture.
We are not talking about occasional failures in intelligence or procedure - we are talking about the systematic abuse of international law.
Lucky for you (and me, for that matter) that the 9/11 attacks were not perpetrated by the King George Army, a shadowy organisation, formed by middle aged, white males of British descent, dedicated to correcting the error of the War of American Treachery. We might be having this "philosophical" conversation in Gitmo ourselves.
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