Captured detainees rights is a grave issue for the likes of fearful citizens.
Why?
These captured detainees would have all kinds of legal rights unavailable in an offshore prison claims these fearful citizens.
My question is why wasn't the US just as afraid of Timothy McVeigh our own home grown terrorist who blew up the building in Oklahoma? We were able to jail him, try him and even kill him without anyone fearing his escape.
What is wrong with us that we fall for this line of propaganda that the "terrorists" are incapable of being held in our prisons. That they are more dangerous than our own home grown terrorists. That we have to shiver in our homes worried that they are "going to get us when they might escape." Have we become a bunch of "sissies" afraid of our own shadows.
But more than that what gives us the right to proclaim them "guilty" before they have had a chance to defend themselves.
Close Guantanamo, bring them here and prosecute them properly like the civilized nation we proclaim ourselves to be but certainly aren't acting like.
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We have transcended yesterday's un-American ideaology. We can now hold our heads higher. We need to remain personally and nationally secure in our values and know that our values will keep us secure and strong. Vigilance, preparation and our laws will keep us so.
Lurch LaRue
It seems to me that the difference is that McVeigh was deemed not part of a broader terrorist network. He had no pals on the 'outside' that would risk an attempt to bust him out of jail. They fear transfer of these 'foreign operatives' to domestic prisons will make the prisons targets and invite further attacks on US soil. Whether those fears are founded or not I have no idea. But that seems to be the general gist of it. Sounds like fear-mongering to me.
I agree....fear mongering is creating an environment where "terrorists" have become more powerful than Americans.
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