What's your opinion on U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison?

[kombayn]

Canada's high court weighs Guantanamo detainee case - Yahoo! News

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's Supreme Court weighed arguments Wednesday from lawyers seeking intelligence documents for the defense of a Canadian terror suspect held at the US Guantanamo Bay prison since he was 15.

Since he was 15? My god! Can we close down the Guantanamo Bay prison...? I bet you anything if you gave people a questionnaire as to if this way right without letting them know the U.S. currently does it. They would say, that's awful etc. I believe. I'm shocked at this in a way. I'm currently wondering what people think of this? And doesn't this give our great country an extremely bad name?

[Donkey®]

Not only do I dislike the prison, I hate the fact we have a military base in Cuba.

[thewise1]

Any time a group of people are made to disappear and not offered due process of law, I'm appalled.

If you can prove these people were guilty - not by association, but guilty of a real crime, give them a trial, and let them hang. But this disappear with no due process stuff is no better than what the viet cong did. Maybe the torture is different, but it's just because these people have different weaknesses.

The reason I say this is because when it's allowed for one group of people, eventually it will be used on other groups once authorities discover that they can just label someone a terrorist and the public no longer cares. That should be scary to anyone who has ever disagreed with someone in power.

[motivez]

Many of the people there are innocent and were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

There's many stories about how people in Afghanistan used our desire to get intelligence to settle old grudges with neighbors, telling us that x or y was al Qaeda, plotting against us, etc.. and we scooped them up, shipped them off, and tortured them.

And lets not forget that we've sent people who it's been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt were innocent of the charges to countries with less than stellar human rights records to be tortured in ways not even Bush & co are willing to authorize.

It's an appalling stain on our country and years from now people will look back and wonder why we didn't stop it.

[kinggovernor]

Originally Posted by thewise1

Any time a group of people are made to disappear and not offered due process of law, I'm appalled.

that is how prisoner of war camps have worked. I don't agree with some of the specifics of camp x-ray, but as a person captured on the battlefield you are offered due process of law. You are to be held until the end of the conflict, and yes that can mean years

[Phantom]

Originally Posted by Donkey®

Not only do I dislike the prison, I hate the fact we have a military base in Cuba.

I like the fact that we have a base in Cuba. I don't like alot of what we do there.

[thewise1]

Originally Posted by kinggovernor

that is how prisoner of war camps have worked. I don't agree with some of the specifics of camp x-ray, but as a person captured on the battlefield you are offered due process of law. You are to be held until the end of the conflict, and yes that can mean years

There is no one to surrender here. There can be no end, period. Even if the violence dies out, people like yourself will likely argue that it's because we held these people indefinitely without trial or appeal and thus use that to support their further imprisonment

[kinggovernor]

Originally Posted by thewise1

There is no one to surrender here. There can be no end, period. Even if the violence dies out, people like yourself will likely argue that it's because we held these people indefinitely without trial or appeal and thus use that to support their further imprisonment

I wouldn't argue that at all. Eventually we can turn this people over a court for charges but not until after the conflict is over.

[7960]

Originally Posted by kombayn

I bet you anything if you gave people a questionnaire.......

If we made a questionnaire asking if a questionnaire was the best way to make decisions what do you think would be the outcome?