Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Detainees Will Still Be Held, but Not Tried, Official Says, So Much for Innocence Until Proven Guilty!

That headline pretty much says it all, but here's a cutting from an NYT article that summarizes things:

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided to continue to imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba because a high-level task force has concluded that they are too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release, an administration official said on Thursday.

read the rest at nytimes.com

After all, if you can prove someone's dangerous, but not that they're actually guilty of anything, it's totally cool to lock them up, right?

Of course, there are plenty of white folks in government that *I* would say are *very* dangerous, but *I'm* not allowed to just lock them up. And there's a good reason for that and, technically, the USG shouldn't be allowed to lock up those 50 guys in Gitmo, either.

It's just so sad how our government doesn't understand the principles IT was founded on. "All men are created equal" ring any bells? Not just Americans, but ALL men. So, men whom we don't like who may be dangerous still deserve their day in court. END OF STORY.

Don't like it? Tell it to the Founding Fathers. See how much they dig the idea of changing the Constitution to suit your paranoia.

That's just my ¥2's worth, of course.

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