Fighting terrorism- Gitmo, torture, no trials, Oh my!

My Uncommon Sense ^ | 5/22/09 | Derek Foley

[webdfo]

When Guantanamo Bay is brought up these days in the media, it is usually in unison with the words “unconstitutional”, “unlawful”, and “unethical”. Some even say it goes against the Geneva Conventions. As you can see by the photo, the detainees have it really bad with their 12 hours of recreation time (Hint my sarcasm). I find this amusing (Yet sad, as always), because a large majority of the people making these claims don’t know the law. Many probably haven’t even read the Constitution nor the Geneva Conventions. So let me say it here and now: waterboarding, the suspension of habeas corpus, and the Guantanamo Bay detention facility are all 100% legal, both under U.S. law and international law.

[webdfo]

From the Fourth Geneva Convention, to the Military Commissions Act of 2006, to our very Constitution enables all of the treatment of detainees at Gitmo. So when you hear people call it “unconstitutional”, go right ahead and throw them this info.

Not only were the techniques 100% legal, they were effective in saving American lives. So if they are in accordance with both domestic and international laws, and they are effective in protecting Americans, why is there debate? My guess is because people are still more often than not completely ignorant and would rather reiterate someone else’s talking points rather than be an individual and form their own opinion. Fight the zombie menace, don’t succumb to the social disease that is liberalism.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

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[Travis McGee]

Those detainees who wind up in underground “supermax” isolation cells 23 hours a day (with one hour in a solitary dog run for excercise) will weep to return to good old sunny Gitmo.

[webdfo]

Too true. Gitmo is more of a political tool that anything else. The politics were set before they inquired the truth, thus the result is the same.

[GeronL]

they had no uniforms on the battlefield, they could have been summarily executed as spies or saboteurs according to the Geneva Convention, right?

[LiteKeeper]

right!