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talkpoliticsObama gives Congress Guantanamo closure plan
About fucking time, eh? Not that the guys who believed the plan was unacceptable the first time, would believe it's any more acceptable this time around. Shame the fearmongering Congress doesn't trust US prisons, hmmm. And in the meantime, they're so hell-bent on keeping the steady influx of prisoners for the profit of their fat buddies from the private jail industry.
In the meantime, the wild promises keep coming from all sides. What wouldn't some people do to get a few more votes from the "base". For instance, Rubio has vowed that if he's elected (not gonna happen), future captured militants would not be granted a federal court hearing. "They are going to Guantanamo, and we are going to find out everything they know", he said. Well, thanks inquisitor Rubio for your approval. Now let us continue with the inquisition. Because torture totally yields results, right?
Here's the deal. Either charge the prisoners and try them, or let them go. If I were one of those prisoners and I had had over a dozen years of my life wasted by being locked up and tortured for no clear reason, I sure as hell would devote the rest of my life to hunting down and killing Americans. As for hypocritical Americans, your commitment to human rights is paper-thin. But then again, nobody is surprised about that anyway. This atrocity of a place should've been closed years ago. It's a stain on America's credibility. Beacon of freedom and liberty? Pfeh. Do you take us for a bunch of idiots?
About fucking time, eh? Not that the guys who believed the plan was unacceptable the first time, would believe it's any more acceptable this time around. Shame the fearmongering Congress doesn't trust US prisons, hmmm. And in the meantime, they're so hell-bent on keeping the steady influx of prisoners for the profit of their fat buddies from the private jail industry.
In the meantime, the wild promises keep coming from all sides. What wouldn't some people do to get a few more votes from the "base". For instance, Rubio has vowed that if he's elected (not gonna happen), future captured militants would not be granted a federal court hearing. "They are going to Guantanamo, and we are going to find out everything they know", he said. Well, thanks inquisitor Rubio for your approval. Now let us continue with the inquisition. Because torture totally yields results, right?
Here's the deal. Either charge the prisoners and try them, or let them go. If I were one of those prisoners and I had had over a dozen years of my life wasted by being locked up and tortured for no clear reason, I sure as hell would devote the rest of my life to hunting down and killing Americans. As for hypocritical Americans, your commitment to human rights is paper-thin. But then again, nobody is surprised about that anyway. This atrocity of a place should've been closed years ago. It's a stain on America's credibility. Beacon of freedom and liberty? Pfeh. Do you take us for a bunch of idiots?
