no one asks my opinion
May 20th, 2009 02:37 pmSen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, among the few Republicans joining former GOP presidential nominee John McCain of Arizona in calling for Guantanamo to be closed, scoffed at the idea that the government can't find a way to hold Guantanamo prisoners in the United States. Graham noted that 400,000 German and Japanese prisoners were held during World War II.
Soooo, the Republicans are saying that Gitmo is just as legal and valid as Japanese internment camps were... Goody for us, we've come so far in the last sixty years.
"The American people don't want these men walking the streets of America's neighborhoods," Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said Wednesday. "The American people don't want these detainees held at a military base or federal prison in their backyard, either."
I don't remember anyone asking my opinion, but oddly enough, I was hoping for a little bit of due process and some good old-fashioned habeas corpus. I don't know about you, but I likes me my habeas corpus. It's sort of one of those things that's supposed to make America "America" instead of just another asshat country that locks people up without representation.
Soooo, the Republicans are saying that Gitmo is just as legal and valid as Japanese internment camps were... Goody for us, we've come so far in the last sixty years.
"The American people don't want these men walking the streets of America's neighborhoods," Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said Wednesday. "The American people don't want these detainees held at a military base or federal prison in their backyard, either."
I don't remember anyone asking my opinion, but oddly enough, I was hoping for a little bit of due process and some good old-fashioned habeas corpus. I don't know about you, but I likes me my habeas corpus. It's sort of one of those things that's supposed to make America "America" instead of just another asshat country that locks people up without representation.
