Maybe I am too stupid or not fucking xenophobic enough, but I don’t understand what the goddamned problem is with having terrorist prisoners on our “soil”.
I don’t unnastand it either. When Timothy mcvay was tried as a terrorist, no one was afraid to try him on US soil. They are all murderers and should stand trial right here. Show them that we are not afraid, and oh yes, I live blocks from the courthouse
(Originally from sistermarymartha)
The problem seems to be—from over this side of the pond—that trying them in court doesn’t seem to be part of the agenda, and never has been. One of those “we know they’re guilty, but we don’t have any of your precious evidence… so we’ll just keep ’em locked up on foreign soil for as long as we can!”
Obama, having taken office, has probably discovered that there’s all kinds of intel which strongly suggests that many of these guys are guilty, but is somewhat dismayed to find that there’s practically no evidence to the effect, and plenty of “extra-legal” (i.e., illegal) stuff that’s happened on the part of those responsible for locking them in the first place which would probably see the cases thrown out as a horrendous abuse of every statute and process you and I tend to expect from a well-balanced democracy and legal system. Otherwise, I’m at a loss as to why neither he (nor his half-man half-monkey predecessor) would want to keep them as far away from a courtroom as possible, as appears to be the case.
