Getting rid of Guantanamo?

About how he is getting rid of that, think of it this way. This world is huge. & their is prisons everywhere you go. So eather they will re build one, or take them to a regular prison. I don’t know all I know is Barack Obama seems like a smart man, and he wouldn’t do anything to put us in trouble. At least I don’t think lol.

seriously people stop using bush as a scapegoat. and also theres no solid proof that torture practices were conducted. the videos could easily be hoaxs along with the pictures. terrorists dont deserve rights anyway.

This really shouldn’t be an issue anymore. The Supreme Court already ruled months ago that Guantanamo Bay detainees have habeus corpus rights. Closing the prison and relocating the detainees to places where they have access to federal court is a necessary step.

In addition, the notion that everyone being held there is a terrorist is merely Bush administration propaganda. In some cases, relief workers have been arrested and detained at Guantanamo, and some are there because rival factions in Afghanistan turned them in for reward money. The whole process reeks of injustice.

Finally, coercion and torture methods such as waterboarding are strictly prohibited, even against those captured in a combat zone. How the former administration got away with flagrantly violating every level of international, US, and Army law is mind-blowing.

By the way, it feels good to say “former administration” when referring to Bush.

In our local news our nearby prison town is Leavenworth Kansas and people are extremely fearful right now that these people will be put there. I heard someone from the prison say on TV that they will take measures like a maximum security for a more secure surrounding of these people.

No one at gitmo has had a trial. None of them have even been convicted of jaywalking. I don’t just blindly trust that everyone who the government says is a terrorist really is a terrorist. There is no justice in holding people forever without trial and without even declaring them prisoners of war.