"They are essentially dead men who just happen to breathe."

[Astrad]

‘Men live in Guantanamo animal cages, will never get trials’

Well you’re going to have to answer that as a political question. I’m a lawyer. I’m here to look at the facts and tell you that I’ve reviewed these cases and these guys will never get trials. If they’re never getting trials, then we have to go by what the president said in March 2011, when he said indefinite detention will be implemented in Guantanamo Bay and will be the law of the United States. Forty-eight men will be condemned to die never being given a trial or given an opportunity to defend themselves. They are essentially dead men who just happen to breathe.

http://www.russiatoday.com/op-edge/guantanamo-bay-hunger-strike-732/

[Doctor_J]

1. The irony of this appearing in RT

Even though the point of the article is spot on.

Like our former leader so elequently put it, "Don't talk about the twig in your eye when there's a log in mine".

Rec

[Ash_F]

4. RT is often spot on.

Maybe Americans need to let go of their biases?

[toby jo]

2. For we are the US of A and we will make us laws as we so need.

Barack, that's a sliver of evil and hatred you put into the law of the land. On you, big man.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Astrad.

[zeemike]

5. But really who cares?

None of our leadership give a shit about humanity...we bought into that when we started torturing people and celebrated it with a TV program called 24...now it is accepted practice to torture people "if there is a pressing threat"
And Democrats and Republicans alike ignore the morality of it...and none of our liberal organizations or leaders will say shit about it, much less organize a general strike because of it...which is what MUST be done if we are to stop it.
They have us focused on things that have nothing to do with that...and they know we are easily distracted by shiny things.

[blackspade]

6. There is no justice in the 'War on Terror'

These guys should have been released a decade ago.
Scratch that, never locked up in the first place.

[xtraxritical]

7. The great majority of Gitmo detainees have been released to their countries.

The ones that are still in Gitmo are not welcomed back in their country's of origin, such as Mongolian Uygars. The ones that are left after this are judged the worst of the worst and will go straight back to Alqueda (sic). They are treated a hundred times better than inmates in US prisons. Read some books on the subject, or are you just a "sympathizer"?

[Fantastic Anarchist]

10. You have got to be kidding me.

Straight out of the reactionary files.

I hope your post was sarcasm.

[mike_c]

12. "...judged the worst of the worst...."

They've never had a trial. Who judged them? And why did they do it in secret?

[Jim Lane]

13. If they really were "the worst of the worst" then their trials would establish that.

If their countries of origin won't take them back, then the U.S., having kidnapped them from one place, has a moral obligation to find someplace else for them -- someplace other than lifelong imprisonment without charge and without trial.

[idwiyo]

8. K&R

[Fantastic Anarchist]

9. This is about justice and freedom.

Umm, since when did the U.S. care about such silly things?

[polly7]

11. Kick and Recommend. nt.

[libodem]

14. That must take us pre-magna carta

Back 300 years. The dark ages of law.

[KoKo]

15. Recommend..

[Anonymousecoview]

16. In Texas there is a positive sign of change

Look at the new justice system in Texas. Judges visit the people they convicted even after parole. The old system was so harsh, any friend or relative of a convict began to seriously begrudge the system. The opposite is happening now in Texas, justice is still being served, but it costs less with fewer hardened criminals.

[In_The_Wind]

17. Hello ~ Anonymousecoview

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