30-01-2013, 12:35 PM
Peter.
It must be morning by now where you are. I always thought you stayed up as long as I did, but I figure you are 5 or 6 (7?) hours ahead of me.
Anyway, I was going to post a more recent article on GITMO, but the Salon article of July, 2012, had material on the reasons for why Democratic senators did not vote in favor of funding the shutdown of the prison. They were concerned that the detainees would be brought on to US soil and that would introduce the GITMO legal system ot permanent detention into our civilian laws, possibly.
I think they should release the detainees and send them home or wherever they want to go, and then close GITMO, never to be used again. GITMO was a George W. Bush invention, and his wars have ended, or have almost all ended - Iraq and Afghanistan. If we need to house prisoners of war, we should follow international rules that would apply, instead of the inhumane caging of people, torture techniques, and permanent detention without a trial. Why not stop being engaged in any wars? Maybe with the new Secretary of State and the new Secretary of Defense, this could be a possibility. I understand that Chuck H. would like a moratorium or cessation of making and using nuclear weapons.
Adele
It must be morning by now where you are. I always thought you stayed up as long as I did, but I figure you are 5 or 6 (7?) hours ahead of me.
Anyway, I was going to post a more recent article on GITMO, but the Salon article of July, 2012, had material on the reasons for why Democratic senators did not vote in favor of funding the shutdown of the prison. They were concerned that the detainees would be brought on to US soil and that would introduce the GITMO legal system ot permanent detention into our civilian laws, possibly.
I think they should release the detainees and send them home or wherever they want to go, and then close GITMO, never to be used again. GITMO was a George W. Bush invention, and his wars have ended, or have almost all ended - Iraq and Afghanistan. If we need to house prisoners of war, we should follow international rules that would apply, instead of the inhumane caging of people, torture techniques, and permanent detention without a trial. Why not stop being engaged in any wars? Maybe with the new Secretary of State and the new Secretary of Defense, this could be a possibility. I understand that Chuck H. would like a moratorium or cessation of making and using nuclear weapons.
Adele