http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4720962.stm
I know this has been done to death already, but I was reading some stuff and I just got really pissed off.
Gitmo is in Cuba because it would be technically illegal to run it on US soil. Does that seem totally fucking crooked to anyone else? People are getting tortured there- and I'm not saying some of them aren't bad people, but doesn't this whole thing just go against everything america is supposed to stand for?
For fuck's sake, the motherfucking
Nazis treated their POWs better than we treat these "enemy combatants."
If it's
not legal to run it on our own soil, we probably shouldn't be doing it at all. I don't think that one's too hard to figure out. If anyone can convince me that gitmo is a good idea, I will drink a gallon of bleach, because you'd have to be a
total fucking idiot to support that kind of bullshit.
And don't get me started on the wiretapping stuff... we live in a time where technology is sufficient to record and scrutinize every phone call we make and every email we send, and a lot of people apparently still think it's a good idea to take our first baby steps down that slippery slope that can only lead to a fascist police state.
Don't take me for an extreme-left liberal, because I'm not... I just decided to try and imagine I'm seeing these news stories for the first time and holy shit, is this some kind of bad dream?
