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Who is at Guantanamo?

Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by npc, Oct 6, 2006.

  1. Revmitchell

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    The article itself says that the information available to make the report is limited. In other words there is information missing.
     
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    However, there is no information that could change the conclusions of the article. If you disagree, please propose a hypothetical finding that would make one of the conclusions erroneous, without contradicting what information we already have.
     
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    npc said:
    Well, tell you what, back in the late sixties and early seventies I was part of an underground armed struggle movement that had cells that ambushed government soldiers, and cells that were above ground conducting "peasants'-workers'" education which involved heightening their political awareness without necessarily mentioning the taking up of arms.

    I was, for a time, part of the latter type of cell.

    The government caught me, and incarcerated me, though I had not committed "hostile" acts against the government up to that point.

    Were they right, or were they wrong.

    Seems to me we have to define what "hostile" means.

    Does "hostile" mean actually having taken up arms and striking at US targets ? Or does "hostile" also include unarmed propaganda.

    I am sorry, but up to this point in time, I find it hard to accept your insinuations that the United States of America, as represented by its government, has become a de facto martial state, trampling on the principles of justice, equality, and human rights such as a country like North Korea, and is no longer the same United States you were born in, and which we immigrants admired from a distance.

    Sometimes I do not recognize it, but a lot of times the old face still shows.
     
  4. npc

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    A detainee responsible for propaganda is characterized as one of the more actively engaged detainees (16). People are being held for far less:


    You find this so difficult that you're just going to ignore a report based on the government's own admissions?
     
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  6. StraightAndNarrow

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    Would you like to see Americans held for an indeterminate time without being charged and unable to contact anyone in a foreign country? I suppose the hostages in Iran were a good example of this.
     
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    I think they are being held because they know too much. In other words they are political prisioners.
     
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    What does people whose hobby is to destroy this nation have to do with both parties political corruptness? They are two seperate issues. We have to deal with both parties at the ballot box, we can deal with terrorists in another manner.
     
  9. npc

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    Please explain how the detainee I just posted about has made a hobby of destroying this nation?
    SAN didn't mention anything about both parties' political corruptness. Unless you're just trying to wedge that issue into every thread.
     
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    I dunno, ask Daniel Pearl. Or Nick Berg. Or Eugene Armstrong, to name a few.
     
  11. saturneptune

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    First of all, corruption in both parties is a fact, not an issue. Second point is I dont believe I was responding to your post. The third point is, if it is a choice to assume they are going to destroy our way of life, or depend on your numbers, guess which one I am going to choose. They arent locked up because they were at a square dance.
     
  12. npc

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    You're still derailing a thread by bringing something that obviously has no connection into it.
    Fortunately, you have more than those two choices. You can inform yourself on the issue rather than make an assumption.
     
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    You seem not to understand that many of the prisoners have no connection to terrorism. Terrorists' kidnapping of civilians does not mean we should kidnap civilians.
     
  14. StraightAndNarrow

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    Exactly. Did you approve of that action?
     
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