Aneirin
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Joined: 3/18/2006 From: Tamaris Status: offline
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Whatever the prisoners maybe, just the enemy, partisans, sympathisers, tourists, family of nationals, mercenaries fighting for free or terrorists, they are held in what we understand as deplorable conditions and treated in a humiliating way without it seems a charge to bring against them, and no evidence except they were there and what they can extract from the subjects own mouth by reported nefarious means. GTMO is still open a year after Obama's victory, is that year going to extend to a full term and become someone else's problem I wonder. The solution I see to this problem, is to release the prisoners and the US can grovel on it's knees with apologies for unlawful imprisonment, charge them with something solid and proveable and there convict them for their crimes, or put them back where they found them so they may continue their business, whatever it was, as this farce to the worldwide community is not making the US look good at anything other than snatching people and any other misconduct that follows. It is without doubt the anger felt by certain communities is not making the US any safer. Maybe government and important people can be to an extent protected, but what about the rest of you/ us who are not important to the powerful, do they really care when a terrorist in successful in their mission as anyone can utter words in sympathy, but it is actions that count, clear, calculated and effective actions, not the rash go in guns blazing and work out the consequences later way, as it seems is the case with the snatching of the people who are in GTMO. I think the international community is thinking the US military snatched these people for whatever means, then it is the US government's problem, they must sort it out, and for the US to ask other countries to take people who have a question mark hanging over their head to ease the situation for the US, is a bit much. If the US is saying they did what they did on behalf of the international community, who asked them to, did any other country sanction this snatching of people and transportation to a place on the other side of the world where it seems no humanitarian or civil rights law reaches. If other countries are implicit in this action, then those countries should share the burden the US has, and the people of those implicit countries can ask questions of their own rulers, as to just what their game was.
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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha Conservatism is distrust of people tempered by fear - William Gladstone
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