Guantanamo

[Boltlady]

How can any American accept what we've done to those captives that we have in Guantanamo? We've held them for years, no charges against most of them much less a trial to determine if they're actually guilty of anything besides being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and we've tortured a goodly number of them. Since when is this an American way of dealing with human rights?

This has gone on through 2 administrations now. They're even making noises about expanding the facility. Why isn't there a really big hew and cry against this?

 

[RickWA]

To be honest, Boltlady, increasingly the American moral compass is calibrated to party loyalty rather than relative "good".

Policy content and execution to same is less important than who is in the chair of power. This goes for both sides (who are demonstrably equally interventionist, but who are equally outraged everytime an executive of the other party acts).

 

[NightSwimmer]

After throwing the Constitution out the window, it's very difficult to walk it back.

We don't really have established procedures for "undoing" the crimes of a previous administration, and there were very many crimes committed by the administration prior to this one.

You said "They're even making noises about expanding the facility." I would like to know what you meant by that. Who, exactly, is making these noises? To the best of my knowledge, the Obama administration has never wavered in their desire to close the illegal prison at Guantanamo Bay. It is the US Congress that has blocked these efforts.

 

[TomFitz]

I was opposed to the idea to begin with.

We tried the WTC bombers from 1993 in US Federal Court in New York and the world got to see what American justice and the rule of law stand for.

Eight years later, the new Administration decides that secret prisons and kangaroo courts are the way to go, making a mockery of everything we say we stand for.

When the incoming Attorney General moves to impliment the President's campaign promise and close Guantanamo, the right wing howls and the GOP in the Senate filibuster the attempt.

It is shameful, to say the very least!