ITEM: You’ll be pleased to know that despite the ailing economy, the prison at Guantanamo Bay – you know, the one with all those people so dangerous and guilty that we can’t find a single thing to charge them with even in a military tribunal system rigged in favor of the prosecution? – will
continue operations as usual.
Well, at least until January:
Despite his stated desire to close the American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, President Bush has decided not to do so, and never considered proposals drafted in the State Department and the Pentagon that outlined options for transferring the detainees elsewhere, according to senior administration officials.
No surprise, really. Why would he? Opening a prison to detain foreigners without charge and without rights for as long as you deem necessary and declaring them outside of the jurisdiction of the Geneva Convention – hey, that’s easy. Closing it – which means finding a way to legally release all these “dangerous” people in a
country that will take them without admitting that you were wrong to imprison them in the first place, to say nothing of avoiding opening yrself up to lawsuits for wrongful imprisonment – is complicated. And Junior doesn’t do “complicated”. Besides, it won’t be his problem in a few months, and it’ll probably be Obama’s instead of McCain’s, so fuck it.
Kinda like Iraq. And the economy. And ...
Sigh.
But who am I to be critical? It’s not like Bush is EVER going to be held accountable for anything. He’ll never see the inside of a courtroom, let alone a jail cell, and he’ll get to keep his private ranch and collect his pension, and he’ll still get his Presidential library, and he’ll go to his deathbed thinking, “Hey, I was a great president who saved the world from terrorisms. They hated us for our freedoms and commitment to human rights, you know ....”
So yes. Fuck it. Why not, Jim? In a world where Justice is truly dead, why not leave Gitmo open?
Or is that too downbeat?
Sorry about that. Stay tuned, I got another Halloween song coming up after the break.
I just can’t be happy today,
This is dF
