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Gitmo detainees want to stay there
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11-03-2009, 07:16 PM | #2 |
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there could be many reasons why someone in Gitmo would want to stay:
1. Political visibility at Gitmo. "People will know I exist and am imprisoned" versus getting swallowed up and disappearing in the US Penal system. 2. Fear of the unknown. 3. Prison officials latching onto the opinions of a few kooks who have gone crazy in maximum security isolation for years on end. Would Tex take it at face value if the Nazis had annouced that some Jews were happy in the work camps? 4. Fear of deportation and rendition to countries that will kill/torture them. |
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Let me also add that I think the way we run the prisons here in the United States is criminal, counter-productive, and just plain stupid.
We put people in prisons, make them worse people, and train them to be better criminals when they are released. We traumatize people, we foster gangs, criminal organizations, mafia. Joseph Smith proposed changing the way we treat people in prison. Having said that, I am law and order, and anti-crime and pro-punishment. But I'm not stupid anti-crime. |
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KSM to get a civil trial in NY. This should be good.
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I'm surprised there's been no further comment on this. No one has any strong feelings on one of the architects of 9/11 being granted Constitutional rights and access to federal courts? Does anyone actually think he's going to get the presumption of innocence?
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11-18-2009, 08:21 PM | #8 |
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If he is not convicted, esp. because of a liberal judge's "technicality", it's not going to look good for Obama, to put it mildly.
I think it is pretty safe to say that the fix is in. |
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It's been a while since I read the stuff on "tainting" the pool, but an isolated comment while in China is not likely to taint the pool sufficiently to circumvent a conviction. However, I truly don't know how any one of these combatants could receive a fair and impartial jury pool. That sounds almost impossible.
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