Last night I saw Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on one of our news programs flapping his jaws about the Gitmo detainees. It’s worth sharing.
REID: I’m saying that the United States Senate, Democrats and Republicans, do not want terrorists to be released in the United States. That’s very clear.
QUESTION: No one’s talking about releasing them. We’re talking about putting them in prison somewhere in the United States.
REID: Can’t put them in prison unless you release them.
QUESTION: Sir, are you going to clarify that a little bit? …
REID: I can’t make it any more clear than the statement I have given to you. We will never allow terrorists to be released in the United States.
Does that make sense to anyone else? It makes no sense to me. No one has been suggesting we just turn them loose on American soil, and we can’t “put them in prison” unless we “release them” … huh?
Do any of the people screaming about how we can’t possibly put such dangerous people into our prisons not realize we have a whole bunch of really dangerous people already in our prisons? Have they not compared the “prison” at Gitmo with our super-max prisons? Gitmo is a cardboard box compared to our super-max prisons. If these people were so dangerous and capable that a super-max prison on US soil can’t contain them, they would have already broken out of Gitmo and taken over Cuba.
Additionally, we don’t even know how dangerous or not most of these detainees are, as we never bothered to figure that out. They are labeled as extremely dangerous because they are in Gitmo. Obviously, anyone who is in Gitmo MUST be dangerous, otherwise, why would they be there? It’s ridiculous logic.
Our prisons are more than capable of holding anyone at Gitmo, and our court systems are more than capable of holding trials for even the most hardened of criminals. Reid and the rest of the panicky elected officials are mental if they think otherwise.
Here’s a clip from last night’s Daily Show that brings the point home:
Vested interests don’t want those people writing books and giving interviews.
They haven’t been accorded due process, habeas corpus or speedy trials because the prosecution has nothing and hopes the scaremongering will serve to cover their shame and incompetence.
Eighty-two percent of Americans didn’t finish college. As easy as our schools are and as much money as we spend on education, it’s as if we’re bending over backwards to preserve our childhood ignorance.
It’s as if people don’t realize the sorts of people, already found guilty of horrible crimes, are sitting in our prisons on our soil right now … and haven’t been looking at the photos of Gitmo (my gods, not at all super-max level holding cells) or watch any of the thousands of prison reality crap shows on TV (which show just how insanely over-engineered our prisons are). I mean, really, these people ARE just humans. They aren’t freaking Superman.
So yes, it all boils down to not wanting to give them any human rights at all, because it sure as hell isn’t that having them in one of our prisons is some sort of threat to safety. If that were the case, we should be just as concerned about some of the other crazy mo-fo’s we have locked up who we KNOW are guilty.
And Obama’s nonsense about Gitmo and the whole torture thing that is coming out is pissing me right off. No, I will not move forward and forget that for 8 years, my country SUCKED and did a metric buttload of evil things. Yup, rant on that coming soon to a blog near you. :puh: