US may hold acquitted Guantanamo inmates

[Eureka]

"Officials in Washington have confirmed that detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba might be kept there for security reasons even if they are acquitted by military tribunals.

If found guilty, the detainees could be held beyond any sentence laid down by the tribunals."

www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1053741.htm

If the * administration is going to keep them anyway, why bother spending the money on a trial?

[POed_Ex_Repub]

1. Security Reasons?

If they're acquitted, what is the security threat? :wtf:

[Bozola]

2. they might tell someone of the behaviour

of their captors.

[I AM SPARTACUS]

8. Reason? because Rummie saw it in a Tom Cruise movie...

...and he liked the idea...

http://www.movieeye.com/reviews/get_movie_review/564.html

Minority Report
<snip...>
At first glance Minority Report seems a bit sterile and detached, but within the first 15 minutes, one gets the feeling Steven Spielberg is about to introduce the audience to a newer and different future. Set in the year 2054, the concept of crime and punishment has changed. Thrust forward by politics and technology, the U.S. now has a Pre-Crime Law Enforcement Division. The heart of this Para-military crime prevention unit is Chief John Anderton. Tom Cruise plays Anderton as a character driven and tortured by his own personal family loss. Pre-Crime supposes that any future capital crime visualized and recorded can be prevented, hence the perpetrator can and will be stopped. Visualization of future crime accrues through a symbiosis link up between the Agatha and the Twins, the three teens were taken away from drug-addicted mothers at birth. The drug seems to have altered the teen's biology, and they are now true precognitive. With pre-knowledge of crime provided by the pre-cogs, the Crime Unit can swing into action, apprehension and detention follows.
<snip...more>

[Minstrel Boy]

3. Franz Kafka, pick up the white courtesy phone.

On a day of many outrages, this contends for the crown.

What an obscenity.

[saigon68]

4. Rumbdum and Wolfie smoking Crack

THE ONLY BEHAVIOR THAT EXPLAINS THIS RESULT.

[DuctapeFatwa]

5. I think this will appeal to most voters. This is what the regime had said

from the beginning, and since the Guantanamo project has been so popular, a key element of moving ahead with the expansion is to wean voters from outdated notions about "due process" and other fringe ideas that could impede accomplishment of US objectives.

Now that people have had some time to get used to it for brown skinned men decreed to be "terrorists," it will really smooth the way for acceptance as the strategy is implemented with other undesirable populations.

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

6. Then why bother with tribunals?

Waste of time if no difference in the end.

[mbperrin]

7. Sentence first, trial after, said the

Red Queen.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. Boy, talk about through the looking glass.... things are getting

curiouser and curiouser.