UK minister says Guantanamo Bay "unacceptable"
LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett launched one of the British government's sharpest attacks on Guantanamo Bay on Thursday, saying the U.S. prison camp was ineffective and damaging."The continuing detention without fair trial of prisoners is unacceptable in terms of human rights. But it is also ineffective in terms of counter-terrorism," Beckett said at the launch of her department's annual human rights report.
"It is widely argued now that the existence of the camp is as much a radicalising and discrediting influence as it is a safeguard to security," she added.
And it is widely argued you have the intellect of a headless toad. They hated us a millenium before Guantanamo.
In response, Washington said it looked forward to the camp's closure but emphasised the need to house dangerous suspects.
Silly bovine !
These are not car thieves awaiting trial.
These are not prisoners of war.
These are men taken in war OUTSIDE the mechanism of the western conscience's ability to imagine. These are men whose PURPOSE is to kill the innocent as both strategy and tactic, and to do so while miming innocence. These are men whose design is to frustrate those processes we have built to protect the falsely accused. And like the nazis and japanese, when the war is OVER, thru, finito, kaput, muerte, tot, done, finished...they can go home.
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I absolutely agree Guantanamo is unacceptable...
...but for different reasons (mainly that it looks more like a summer vacation retreat than anything even resembling what terrorists ought to be receiving; see here on Atlas).
Is anyone else unable to watch the film "A Few Good Men" anymore, speaking of Gitmo? I just can't stand it these days. I want Nicholson to kick everyone's ass nowadays, not see him get taken down. I'm just saying.
Epa--yeah, that whole speech he gives at the end, when he berates them for thinking his existence disgusting and all makes me cheer. I love when he talks about how deep down all those people WANT him on that wall. He even throws in a reference to them at their cocktail parties. I can't believe the change with which I see that movie now. The only consistency is that Demi Moore's hair sucked then and it does now (in that film).
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