A problem?
I am now of the opinion that the US has a problem of H-Block type proportions with the Guantanamo prisoners hunger strike.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html?hp&_r=3&
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/15/obama-guantanamo-hunger-strike-moqbel
President Obama's continuing defence of this situation is becoming so obviously unjust, even to Americans, that it is rapidly approaching indefensible.
There has to be a better way than incarcerating folk for more than a decade without trial. Due process is more than a phrase…excepting when people suspected of being terrorists are involved, whereon simple suspicion is enough to suspend the normal rights appertaining to individuals.
There is a "Man in the Iron Mask" quality to all of this. What is awful is that Obama, and the Democratic Party as a whole, are party to this whether or not it is politically expedient given what the electorate believe.
Sometimes, with some things, you have to take a stand.
Try them, and if guilty, fry them: but try them first in a court of law and prove your case.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html?hp&_r=3&
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/15/obama-guantanamo-hunger-strike-moqbel
President Obama's continuing defence of this situation is becoming so obviously unjust, even to Americans, that it is rapidly approaching indefensible.
There has to be a better way than incarcerating folk for more than a decade without trial. Due process is more than a phrase…excepting when people suspected of being terrorists are involved, whereon simple suspicion is enough to suspend the normal rights appertaining to individuals.
There is a "Man in the Iron Mask" quality to all of this. What is awful is that Obama, and the Democratic Party as a whole, are party to this whether or not it is politically expedient given what the electorate believe.
Sometimes, with some things, you have to take a stand.
Try them, and if guilty, fry them: but try them first in a court of law and prove your case.