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Canuck57[_9_]

On 01/10/2011 2:19 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:47:25 -0400, wrote:

The problem with Gitmo is that it is American soil. We either have
laws on American soil or we don't. If we do, we compromised all of
those cases when they finally come to trial.

That is not American soil, it is in Cuba, precisely why we put them
there. This is not an embassy. Gitmo is a particularly ambiguous
place. Legally it is simply leased from Castro, just like a base in
Japan, Germany or Turkey. We actually send them a check every year
that they refuse to cash.
We can even say we are following the laws of Cuba since locking up
political prisoners there is the normal thing to do.
Obama must see the convenient irony too since he has done nothing to
change the situation.

Canada and US lock up political prisoners all the time. We are in fact
hypocrites in this regard. See G8/20 in Toronto for a recent good
example. Wall Street and DC have a history of this too.

But when rocks and bullets fly here, they are criminals but in Syria,
Egypt, Yemen, Libya... they are good guys. Just depends on if our
corrupt leaders support the current leader or not.
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Eat the rich, screw the companies and wonder why there are no jobs.
-- Obama and the lefty fleabagger attitude