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Originally Posted by Skybird
Gitmo never had anything to do with law and order in Western understanding, it always was a populistic and opportunistic easy way of going like usually you see it being practised in rogue states. This bilance revealed now spells a condemning verdict.
Guilt must be proven, not just claimed and assumed. This is one of the most basic, most elemental, most fundamental, most essential principles of Western tradition of law and order. Unlimited imprisonment without court procedures or evidence of guilt, is not acceptable - it's police state measures, it is arbitary "justice".
The whole Guantanamo project was a stupid idea from stupid minds from the very beginning on.
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I don't think it was a bad idea, if we had turned them over to the newly formed goverments they probably would've been tortured or killed.
The bad of it was how it was run, little oversight.
It's our history, we did it to the american indian, japanese americans and now gitmo..