Guantanamo bay...Prison or camp?

Question

Do you think that it is fair for people to be detained without a trail? Is that in the constitution? How can people as young as 13 be detained? If they are suspects in dealing with terrorism don't they have a right to a lawyer and a trail etc...The U.S doesn't even have proof that they are terrorists, so are all these so called terrorists detained if they are ASSUMED to be involved? Are they actually chosen because of their nationality and religion? Imagine you were detained without trail and because you seem to be a terrorist i.e your race and religion? Why isn't anyone putting a stop to this outrage?
Isn't this inhumane????

Answer 1

Torture and concentration camps, like Guantanamo and George Walker Bush's "secret" torture chamber prisons all around the world, are Nazi tactics directly from Hitler's era.

Of course torture has never been the American way, but since these Nazi tactics are now acceptable by NeoCons thugs, the NeoCon thugs will just have to go!

Vote the dictator wannabe's chums out of the senate and the House in November, and let the dictator wannabe wallow in his own mire, on his own.

Answer 2

Prision

The US Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, sometimes called "GTMO" or "Gitmo", covers 116 km² (about 45 square miles) on the western and eastern banks of the bay. It was established in 1898, when the United States obtained control of Cuba from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War, following the 1898 invasion of Guantánamo Bay. The U.S. government obtained a perpetual lease that began on February 23, 1903, from Tomás Estrada Palma, an American citizen, who became the first President of Cuba. The newly formed American protectorate incorporated the Platt Amendment in the Cuban Constitution. The Cuban-American Treaty held, among other things, that the United States, for the purposes of operating coaling and naval stations, has "complete jurisdiction and control" of the Guantánamo Bay, while the Republic of Cuba is recognized to retain ultimate sovereignty.

Answer 3

We're trying, but Bush put them there because it confuses the legal issues. It isn't US soil so the US court system doesn't have jurisdiction, the treaty rights to Guantanamo are disputed which complicates the process immensely, and it is a military base with military rules. It's a nightmare to unravel, and Shrub did it on purpose. So much for his oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.

Answer 4

First go back to school and read the Constitution. It is for Americans. Period. Foreign nationals in uniform of their country are covered by the Geneva protocols set forth at the Geneva Convention. Subjects engaged in combat but NOT in the uniform of a country's military are NOT protected and by INTERNATIONAL law and can be executed on the spot. In WWII they would have been. They burn, chop off the heads of our captured soldiers, drag them thru the streets, and hang them from bridges. They get captured and they sit in the tropics reading the Koran that we supply eating our food that we pay for. They live and eat better in Gitmo than they did in their own country. If you want to complain and whine about how people are treated go to Iran, Iraq, and complain. Of course they will kill you, If not for what you say, then because your a women speaking in front of men, without a veil, and if your not a virgin and your not married they will execute you for that. COMPLAIN about the real inhuman treatment of people.

Answer 5

Bush, who as a governor put more people to death than any other governor in the history of the united states, can't just kill all of these people without provoking yet more international outrage, so he will just torture them instead, next best thing.

Answer 6

Constitutional rights don't extend to people who are not citizens of America, and by violating the Geneva Convention and attacking us out of a common uniform they become and unlawful combatant. They're really lucky we don't execute them all without trial. Because we could.

Answer 7

Guantanamo is closer to a luxury resort. Contrary to the lies you seem to buy into, they are treated relatively good for individuals hell-bent on killing people like you and me.

And absolutely not, they should not be given any kind of constitutional rights, they are not Americans and whats more, they hate America and all it stands for, why should they be protected by it.

Answer 8

Illegal torture camp.
See militaty commisions act of 2006.