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by dysfunction
4707 days ago
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> The Gitmo people are prisoners of war or some such. So, they are not to be handled in the US legal system. So, for how they are being handled, "lawful" in the US legal system makes little or no sense. Prisoners of war have legal rights too, under treaties to which the US is signatory. The Gitmo prisoners are not receiving those rights either. They're in a legal no-man's-land. |
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The Gitmo situation is a mess, not the least because apparently it's costing the US $1+ million a year per prisoner. But while a mess, I object to calling it a legal mess. Laws, courts, justice, etc. just have next to nothing to do with it.
Maybe there are a lot of lawyers and they want to see every problem, e.g., the Gitmo problem, as a legal problem. Sorry, lawyers, it's not a legal problem; instead, it's something else, a problem of a different kind.
In part Gitmo is an example to Jihaders: Either we will kill you, and if they are physically close maybe your family, or we will ship you to Gitmo, and we will let you decide which is worse.
Some of the Gitmo Jihaders believe that it is just their natural, Allah-given right and mission to fight the US or go on a hunger strike. I'd say, that 120 days of hunger strike would be about right.
Whatever, I just don't see it as a legal problem.