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Guantanamo Bay: Execution chamber to be built?
BillieTheBot
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As the US government's disregard for human rights and the Geneva Convention continue to fly in the face of the international community, reports last weekend indicated that the US is planning to build a Death Row area and execution chamber for its prisoners.
Should this be true the US government will sink to a new low.
In line with the best rogue states the world has produced, the US administration appears to have decided these prisoners are guilty of still non-existent and unspecified charges, and in amazing Mystic Meg-like clairvoyant powers has foreseen the judge sentencing a number of men to death for the said non-existent charges.
If you thought human rights and the Geneva Convention couldn't be violated any further by the US, think again.
Never mind that most probably not a single person detained there was actually implicated directly in the 9/11 attacks; never mind that many of those men don't even belong to Al Qaida, and are only guilty of defending their country against a foreign invader. Apparently being a member of a terrorist organisation or fighting US soldiers in wartime is not sufficient to warrant the death penalty.
The US government seems more than happy to be in the same select 'club' as China, Saudi Arabia, Burma or Zimbabwe. If 'freedom' campaigners and 'rogue states' crusaders are looking for their next target, they only need to look at Dubya and co.
Should this be true the US government will sink to a new low.
In line with the best rogue states the world has produced, the US administration appears to have decided these prisoners are guilty of still non-existent and unspecified charges, and in amazing Mystic Meg-like clairvoyant powers has foreseen the judge sentencing a number of men to death for the said non-existent charges.
If you thought human rights and the Geneva Convention couldn't be violated any further by the US, think again.
Never mind that most probably not a single person detained there was actually implicated directly in the 9/11 attacks; never mind that many of those men don't even belong to Al Qaida, and are only guilty of defending their country against a foreign invader. Apparently being a member of a terrorist organisation or fighting US soldiers in wartime is not sufficient to warrant the death penalty.
The US government seems more than happy to be in the same select 'club' as China, Saudi Arabia, Burma or Zimbabwe. If 'freedom' campaigners and 'rogue states' crusaders are looking for their next target, they only need to look at Dubya and co.
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At the end of the day many don't object to minors and the mentally disabled to be executed at home, so why would they object to foreign "terrorists" being murdered?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if word of this reaches most of the country or, if it does, that it wont also be accompanied by sensationalistic reminders of 9/11 (as if the Guantanemo prisoners were all part of the planning) in order to inspire sufficient bloodlust to give the admin carte blanche once again to perpetrate its fascist evils.
I do so hope that shocking revelations one day emerge that it was the admin and not foreign terrorists who conceived of 9/11 in the first place and via one or more government agencies (Pentagon, CIA?) carried out the act. Perhaps then the addage "by the measure you judge so shall you be judged" will befall the members of the Bush camp and see them imprisoned, tortured and executed according to their own heinous standards without trial or appeal.
That would be justice!
I love that we have the base in Cuba and have publisized how extremists will be treated.
Not that the above is going to deter a suicide bomber is it?
So you like the fact that the US government is sending the following message to the world: "We are a brutal regime. We are a rogue state. We hold prisoners illegally and against the Geneva Convention without charging them with anything for 2 years, to be followed by a quick military trial and summary execution. We are not much better than Iraq under Saddam, or than Saudi Arabia, or than Burma."
Do you think such behaviour will encourage or discourage further attacks on Americans?
Think of all of the good people who want to immigrate to the West who are being harrassed now because of these few extremists.
Any Muslim in Cuba who could be trusted to fight for us...is in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. So the ones left must be hateful.
And do you think a Taleban fighter would want to join the US forces to spy for its enemy in other countries? Can you blame him for not wanting to?
There are hundreds of people there whose only crime is being soldiers of a brutal regime and defending their country. Those people shouldn't even be prisoners, let alone face the death penalty for daring fight the invading forces of the US army.
I see that "my country right or wrong" is something most Republicans defend vigorously. Funny how they would like to punish citizens of other countries who believe in the same principle with death.
WTF are you talking about with regards to ex-Guantanamo people being used as agents, have you any proof and if it is so surely just because those left in Guantanamo aren't agents doesn't mean it is because they love the US any less(:rolleyes: ) but because they wouldn't be as useful.........
people who emigrate are being harassed because of our authorities not because of Muslim extremists.........
wel in my opinion im just trying to become a bit more active round here
I don't think so. A totalitarian state represses its own citizens whereas this is a situation of repressing other peoples.
The people of the US could stop this by making it an issue and voting for someone who could stop 9to be simplistic)
I suggest you go do some searches on google for the alarm bells that have been going off about just how far the powers granted to it by these developments could be used against their political opponents or the average American.
The power to collect and utilise secret evidence and conduct secret trials is not restricted to a few hundred prisoners rotting away in Cuba.
I disagree with the death penalty , however.
They should be confined , for a terrorist , this is a far worse fate.
I know, I was simply talking within the context of the subject of executions in Cuba.
With your thinking, I hope you never run afoul of some fatcat politican's interests and get unjustly branded a terrorist. With no recourse to a fair and open trial or access to any supposed evidence against you in order to prepare a defence you too could rot away whilst smug armchair analysts point fingers at you and claim "he must be guilty of what they claim".
Far too much presumption of trust for what these leaders are dishing out to the public and far too little scrutiny and investigation of their own actions by the public. All in all, a fertile soil for the furtherance of propaganda and the abuse of power.
Whether the public is slowly waking up to these facts remains to be seen in next year's elections I suppose.
They were in solitary confinement for almost a year and recently released. They are now back in their native country: India. Free to attempt to kill again?
You are aking the wrong questions, you should be asking why two men wounbd giulty of nothing were detained for a whole year, does that not disgrace you?
so potentially innocent people being locked up with out reason makes you feel safe, what do people being Muslim pose a threat to you PNJ? Havnt you noticed there are fanatical religous zealots through out the United States? Do they scare you?
Democrats are trying hard not to come off like they are soft on terrorism. They've focused on hitting Bush at his weak point: the economy.
'the next elections', as if you believe it is gauranteed there will be any! if there are any we know they will have been stitched up anyway so dubya and his boys will still be in power.
WAKE UP AMERICA ...you have become a one party state. before you were only nearly a one party state.
the media laws are being rapidly changed so that one person or group can own all the information you get to see. is this ok as well at making pissinthepot feel safe?
america disgusts me at the moment and a few million more people. if western people are becoming angry, fearful and disgusted by america ...how the hell do you think those who were already verging on radical anti americanism are feeling.
america is sick. very very sick.
i honestly believe this administration are going to be mighty americas downfall. the american people will end up fighting in the streets amongst themselves in a financialy and moraly ruined landscape.
and yes ...a lot of people have been toying with the idea that right wing americans are responsible for 9/11 possibly with the direct knowledge of the bush and bin laden family partnership.remember oklahoma ...right wing americans ...but libya got bombed for it becuase america had proof it was libyans!
So when I see Al Qaeda bound by the ankle...etc. I think good they government is protecting our guys lives.
Over-all, I do believe any information the military released about Cuba was done to let militants know they aren't going to hide behind laws that were designed to protect citizens.