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Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Pounding sand 
| | Time to point to one thing. Maybe two. So how about this story about Guantánamo detainees, released without charges, who say conditions were so desperate there that some captives attempted suicide. |
| | The conditions described sound more like a kennel than a prison. |
| | Who was it who said you could tell the degree of a society's advancement by the way it treats its prisoners? Churchill? |
| | The simple fact remains that we have kept these people as prisoners of a war no longer being fought in any conventional sense of the word. The "war on terror" has every sign of being a rhetorical excuse for the suspension of rights, and that it will go on indefinitely, which is the de facto approximate sentence given to these prisoners, who are being held without any suggestion that a trial will ever be held. Unless I'm missing something, which perhaps I am. (I'm not in a position to look much up here.) |
| | In any case, it seems to me that holding these prisoners in limbo for years violates various amendments to the Constitution. (Being held without indictment, cruel and unusual punishment...) |
| | I'm sure some of these people are dangerous and need to be detained in some civilized fashion. How about one that's lawful and humane? From what we've gathered so far, this is neither. |
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