kelticwizard wrote:While most of the inmates at Guantanamo are hardly sympathetic people, the fact remains that we set up the camp outside the US purposely so we could skirt anti torture laws in this country.
Debra_Law wrote: NO. WE didn't set up the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in order to evade national and international human rights laws . . . OUR GOVERNMENT did. The fact that our government doesn't practice what it preaches (and demands of others) with respect to human rights, makes all of us look like hypocrits unworthy of respect. The whole world is rolling their eyes at our empty platitudes.
I used the word "we" because we have to accept the responsibility for our governemnt's actions, no matter how much we oppose them. Fact is, the government moved them to Guantanamo so they could do things to them there that they could not do to them on the mainland.
Regardless, I agree with you that this government took pains to evade our own country's human rights laws.
What cute little tricks are they going to devise next to deny human rights to the people in this country?
This is no laughing matter, despite Limbaugh and the Republican's attempts to make it seem like a big joke. How many rights is this government going to find ways of avoiding before the Republicans stop laughing?