Comments on: Closing Guantánamo

Closing Guantánamo

homunculus — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:00:42 -0800

Closing Guantánamo: A forum on what to do with detainees.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:07:06 -0800

Australia to consider accepting released Guantanamo prisoners Ireland open to accepting released Guantanamo detainees

By: sexyrobot

sexyrobot — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:36:21 -0800

hmmm...maybe they could move in with violet blue.

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:58:56 -0800

Hopefully free anger management classes for life is part of the deal.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:49:54 -0800

Give them houses on my block: If they're innocent--I have interesting neighbors. If they're terrorists-- my hood is safe.

By: Azaadistani

Azaadistani — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:22:41 -0800

If you break it, you bloody well fix it. Coming from a place where some of those 300 prisoners may be returned, I would say those that are tried fairy and found innocent, ought to be compensated monetarily and by being given US residence or citizenship, based on the following principle: if you break something, you fix it. The innocent people who were picked up and sent to Gitmo are damaged goods, having been sexually assaulted, water-boarded and lord knows what else. The society that must bear the cost of rehabilitating them, and bear the risk of them going postal, is the the society that rendered them such. With respect to those who are found to have been enemy combatants for Al-Qaeda or the Taliban in the strict sense defined in the article, Mr. Cole's prescription is fairly reasonable. Eric Posner's, conversely, makes little sense and indulges in thinly-veiled, but not rationally supported, anti-Islamism (Islamophobia, makes it sound as though the prejudice/fear is legit).

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:40:56 -0800

Yes. Treating them (finally) like human beings is the least we can do.

By: mikelieman

mikelieman — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:40:09 -0800

Cole chooses to ignores the essential fact. The United States *is not* at War. Only Congress can declare War. Congress has not declared War. Therefore the suggestion that extraordinary Wartime measures are somehow required is laughable. Or would be if the deprivation of Due Process and Equal Protection hasn't been denied to hundreds if not thousands of people.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:48:48 -0800

Only Congress can declare War. Yes, you are right on that account.

By: geoff.

geoff. — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:21:59 -0800

300 Gitmo detainees get a house in Williamsburg and find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real.

By: SneakyArab

SneakyArab — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:48:30 -0800

Oh, I know! Send them to a new high security prison! Yay, upgrade!

By: noriyori

noriyori — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:57:46 -0800

"300 Gitmo detainees get a house in Williamsburg and find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real." I like that one. But I was thinking Real World: G.W. Bush Retirement Home.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:00:14 -0800

David Cole: What to Do About the Torturers?

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:11:26 -0800

The idea of giving sociopaths a playground dungeon to torture in has always disturbed me. I mean, even if you can handwave away the ineffectiveness and immorality of torture, do you really want to work in an organization that employs torturers? Do you want those torturers retiring from military life into your community? Interacting with your friends and loved ones?

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:08:16 -0800

Obama's Gitmo? District Court to Hear Cases of Prisoners in Afghanistan Held by U.S.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:49:50 -0800

Former guard on Guantanamo 'torture'

By: homunculus

homunculus — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:09:45 -0800

Obama: Gitmo Will Take Time to Close

By: homunculus

homunculus — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:17:57 -0800

Barack Obama will issue an executive order within days of entering the White House to close the Guantanamo detention centre, senior advisers have confirmed.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:46:55 -0800

Judge Orders Release of Guantanamo's Forgotten Child