tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post3258010347058256932..comments2024-02-29T00:46:38.800-08:00Comments on Washingtons Blog: Here's a Detailed Plan For Closing Guantanamo, So Congress Can Fund ClosureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-23079426440877628822009-05-21T08:17:19.918-07:002009-05-21T08:17:19.918-07:00Here's a simple plan. Bring them to a court of law...Here's a simple plan. Bring them to a court of law. If they are guilty, put them in prison. If they are not, set them free and send them to where they were first kidnapped. They'll be tortured, some will say. Well, what's the difference between being tortured in their own countries or in Guantanamo? If the poor little scaredy American citizens don't want them on the mainland, Guantanamo can be turned into a proper maximum security prison without the torture apparatus. <br /><br />I personally think that it suits the government to have these so-called terrorists in Guantanamo and to keep the controversy alive. It keeps the American people fearful and thus docile and accepting of the continuing restrictions on their freedoms. This fear also helps keep the war industry going which perhaps is the main purpose.Hawkeyenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-20715867068097114202009-05-20T08:41:20.294-07:002009-05-20T08:41:20.294-07:00Excellent.
Now let's get a move on.
The whole wh...Excellent.<br /><br />Now let's get a move on.<br /><br />The whole what-do-we-do-with-the-prisoners thing is stupid. Our courts can handle them, our prisons can handle them, our country can handle them. This notion that these captives (some, as you point out, are probably innocent) are so terrifying that they can't come into the US is just silly. We have a lot of hardened criminals in this country and no one seems to think our prisons can't hold those people. Are these accused terrorists really so cunning that they are able to escape our prisons and run amuck in our streets?Brian Krenzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302124288586891034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-1110976394423175122009-05-19T19:47:35.610-07:002009-05-19T19:47:35.610-07:00Right on, George.Right on, George.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com