07-07-2009, 12:56 PM
Centipede, I think you’re confusing the terrorist at Gitmo versus the innocent detainees. The Terrorist will be transferred to prisons where they will be (per the US Supreme Court) put on trial in a US Court. The results of that trial will determine what happens next.
What the Councilman is referring to are those who the US have now determined are NOT terrorist and there is no evidence to support the prior claims of the US government. The US has to release them and time is running out. All those flagged for immediate release have been cleared. All the US needs is someplace to accept them (and the money the US is providing) so they can be set freed. But the problem facing the US is exactly what I'm reading here; ignorance of the facts resulting in paranoid hysteria.
The hype of Gitmo detainees being terrorist has been so overplayed that nobody cares if a person is innocent or not. If people think they are terrorist and being let off free as a bird, then you should also have to agree that the people of Puna are not deserving of government services or any quality of life improvement because everyone in Puna is drug addicts and criminals, so you don’t deserve equality to Hilo or the West Side.
What the Councilman is referring to are those who the US have now determined are NOT terrorist and there is no evidence to support the prior claims of the US government. The US has to release them and time is running out. All those flagged for immediate release have been cleared. All the US needs is someplace to accept them (and the money the US is providing) so they can be set freed. But the problem facing the US is exactly what I'm reading here; ignorance of the facts resulting in paranoid hysteria.
The hype of Gitmo detainees being terrorist has been so overplayed that nobody cares if a person is innocent or not. If people think they are terrorist and being let off free as a bird, then you should also have to agree that the people of Puna are not deserving of government services or any quality of life improvement because everyone in Puna is drug addicts and criminals, so you don’t deserve equality to Hilo or the West Side.