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Old 04-25-11, 04:48 PM   #23
Platapus
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Originally Posted by mookiemookie View Post
It's not the conditions of Gitmo that are the problem - it's not even the fact that innocent people have been rounded up. It's the fact that it's a symbol of the abdication of 800 years of judicial tradition. If you imprison someone with no trial proving their guilt, then that. is. wrong.
My thoughts exactly.

If there any guilty people at Gitmo, I want them punished and locked away. But to establish guilt, they need to be tried and the evidence presented and evaluated. That is the only way the detention at Gitmo can find any legitimacy. Otherwise it is a concentration camp for political prisoners.
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