Looks like Obama plans to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay immediately after taking office, transporting the detainees to the U.S. where they will be immediately tried and brought to justice under U.S. law. It’s about time.
Change is Coming
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13 responses to “Change is Coming”
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Finally, a win for trial lawyers and terrorists that want to clog up our judicial system. Score.
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Because keeping them in Guantanamo forever at taxpayer expense is better?
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Because public defense attorneys are really going to make money off this?
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Because terrorists set out to clog up our judicial system?
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Oh, I agree that we shouldn’t keep them at Guantanamo forever.
Who says they have to use public defenders? Do you think they’re all poor moisture farmers from Tatooine? Even so, do public defenders work for free?
And yes, the hardcore guys do try to do whatever they can to muck things up.
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The bottom line is that we’ve detained people who may or may not be terrorists. If they are, we need to try them and bring them to justice. If they’re not, we need to release them. Keeping them around in gitmo isn’t accomplishing anything and isn’t right. We have a justice system that we seem to think is better than the rest of the world’s, so let’s put it to use.
Public defenders don’t make squat. I seriously doubt that funding attorneys is something that Al Quaeda has budgeted for, but we’ll see.
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How do you know that keeping them hasn’t accomplished anything?
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Actually, if they’re given military trials, JAG officers will represent them. JAGs have nothing better to do, so it won’t cost taxpayers much more than we already pay them.
Of course, what the current administration is afraid of is more of this: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/08/africa/gitmo.php
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Letting out a few suicide bombers is far better than detaining even one innocent.
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Also there’s good evidence that Al-Ajmi, and others like him now fighting against the U.S. are only doing so as retaliation for their long detentions in Guantanamo. Wouldn’t you want to fight against the country that locked you up for years? I sure would.
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He got out of Guantanamo? How could that be?
And, you’re saying they’d rather kill people than use our system of law to extract recompense for false imprisonment?
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Dubya fixed it so that there is no legal recompense for anyone he deems a terrorist. Particularly those who aren’t U.S. citizens.
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I’m thinking about what I could say in order to use the word “recompense” again.
Oh, there.
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