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Thursday, 12 June 2008

What To Do?

Filed under: SCOTUS and The Law | War on Terror |

Now that Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority decision to allow Terrorists at Guantanamo Bay the right to access US Courts for challenging their detainment (and for that, he will have some ‘splainin’ to do), the time has come for an Open Thread as to what should be done to these detainees.
As I see it, there are four options:

1) Allow the Terrorists to tie up the DC Circuit Court with their petitions.
2) Transfer all detainees from Gitmo to foreign locations (which, depending on the country, may or may not be popular).
3) Take No Prisoners; i.e. Kill ‘Em All and let GOD (and not Allah) sort ‘em out.
4) If the Terrorist Bastards are lucky enough to be captured on the battlefield, hold for 24 hours to allow them their one and only chance to remain among the living by giving up intel, then execute them anyway whether or not they drop the dime...then make sure they’re buried facing away from Mecca with lots of pork-related byproducts!

If there are other options which I may have missed, these can also be presented in the Comments section, which will remain open for seven (7) days.

Discuss.

COMMENTS

My first reaction was, “Just how big is Mr. Justice Kennedy’s couch?

The legacy of Robert Bork’s “borking” lives on.

No thanks to Ted Kennedy.

Nice options

I take the one that cost the american taxpayer the least.

Does that mean #3 over #4 due to the latter’s additional requirement for ham, sausage, pepperoni, SPAM®, pork chops, pig fat, etc., blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda?

There’s gonna be a BIG celebration over in Splodeydopeland over this one.

“OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE”

My ass.

RAPH

Here’s what some other members have been passing along to me:

Psycmeister: “Just treat them like we treated our own Pendleton 8.
They’ll wish they were back in Gitmo.”

The ACLU would go apes**t on this one!

Karridine: “I shall vent my spleen!”

Does that constitute Cruel and Unusual Punishment?

Robohobo: #1 - Let them have their day in court. If there is no direct evidence of wrongdoing then send them home. We have their faces. We have their DNA. We have their fingerprints.
Then if and when caught again, declare them enemy noncombatants (spies) and apply Geneva to them. Which translates to summary battlefield execution. Take video of said bullets to the brain via firing squad, put the video on the jihadi web sites and let them know we are THE bad asses on this particular block.
We are accused by the rest of the world for being Imperialists. Time we started acting the part. Plunder and loot is now OURS.

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH Ye Mateys! cool smile

We are accused by the rest of the world for being Imperialists. Time we started acting the part.

As somebody who has been living in a portion of “the rest of the world” for nearly 4 years now (New Zealand, to be exact), I wholeheartedly agree.  Anti-American sentiment is rampant, so I say that we show them just how bad it can be if we lived up to how poorly we are portrayed (or how we portray ourselves, if one wishes to look at it that way).  Given our might, I think the US uses a lot of restraint.  Just imagine how bad things would be if somebody like Mugabe had the same resources at his disposal.

Just imagine how bad things would be if somebody like Mugabe had the same resources at his disposal

The rest of Africa would be a frakkin’ wasteland...oh wait a moment, it already is. Sorry, my bad.

Really hard to add anything to the very good comments already made.
I’ve long thought we should act the way ppl already believe we are.  Let em see the difference.
Un-scientific poll taken by a newspaper today shows (and this is off topic but gives idea where ppls heads are here) that 61% of the folks here want to see rama-lama bomba as president of USA.

There’s a lot of anti-American feeling here in UK but then you’re not surprised I’m sure.  They believe we tricked Blair into an illegal war, blah,blah and blah.
I wrote to The Telegraph after one particularly harsh letter to the editor re. American policy.
I said yeah well, now ya know how the French felt in 1940.
They didn’t print my letter.
Don’t know why.

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