Interesting show right now on Guantanamo Bay on the Discovery channel.

Holy fuck after watching this shit I do not see how the people running the show in the Bush administration can not be investigated for war crimes or at the least abuse of power.

9/8/2009 10:21:03 PM

shit i fucked up the title can an admin fix this....

thanks!

9/8/2009 10:21:38 PM

I was wondering what "Guancktanamo Bay" was.

9/8/2009 10:35:54 PM

I bet this thread gets more reads for you having misspelled the title with people wanting to come in and correct you. I for one did not initially notice it though. I guess its like that thing where you can misspell words & rearrange the letters, but as long as the first and last letter are right you can still read it.

9/8/2009 11:01:39 PM

haha, I saw that show last year or somethin. Good shit, man.

9/8/2009 11:14:29 PM

I use to live there. For two years.

9/8/2009 11:29:47 PM

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"Holy fuck after watching this shit I do not see how the people running the show in the Bush administration can not be investigated for war crimes or at the least abuse of power."

Sorry...didn't see it.

Can you briefly describe some things that would warrant war crimes/abuses of power?

9/9/2009 5:50:31 AM

^ Ugh, how about locking people up without a trial and without showing them any 'evidence' and then releasing them after 5 years without any charges or even a trial? Did you really just ask that?

Every American should see this move: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_Guantanamo

9/9/2009 9:06:45 AM

Keep in mind that movie is based on the account of 3 liars. I'm not saying bad shit doesn't go down at Guantanamo, but when you watch that "docudrama", keep that in mind.

9/9/2009 9:12:45 AM

3 liars? So you are saying you know for a fact they are liars? What did they lie about? Why were they released without trial and without charges?

9/9/2009 9:25:04 AM

Hey! I recently heard a great idea for what to do with Guantanamo Bay!

The size of the U.S. preserve is large enough for a city. As such, we should create a civil authority to manage the territory. Then, open the new city to unrestricted immigration, funding the civil authority, police and fire, through land sales. Disputes will be settled under foreign jurisdiction, such as a judge appointed to administer Navada law in the district. Now, with secure property rights and free immigration, the city will grow into a large and prosperous metropolis, the Hong Kong of Central America. And, whenever Cuba drops this whole Communism thing, there will be a whole city of culturally similar capitalists ready and willing to help the transition.

9/9/2009 9:40:37 AM

Everyone in Guantanamo who is dangerous can be easily held in America. Everyone who isn't dangerous can simply be returned to their native lands.

We have much, much worse people in the Supermax (I remember the Daily Show showing a guy who ate human brains) than Guantanamo Bay. To say that we would be making citizens "unsafe" by bringing our war prisoners (no, they're not "detainees") inside our borders is just fear-mongering.

9/9/2009 9:45:42 AM

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"3 liars? So you are saying you know for a fact they are liars? What did they lie about? Why were they released without trial and without charges?"

From your own link:

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"In 2007 two members of the Tipton Three - Ruhal Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul - agreed to participate in the Channel 4 documentary Lie Lab in an attempt to prove their innocence of allegations made by the US Government. The technology used on the show was developed by Professor Sean Spence from the University of Sheffield. It uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to look at the activity in the pre frontal cortex to determine the truthfulness of statements. [13] Having previously claimed that he had entered Afghanistan for the purposes of carrying out charity work, Ruhal Ahmed admitted on the programme that he had visited an Islamist training camp, where he handled weapons and learned how to use an AK47. Rasul refused to go through with the test. [1]"

Again, I'm not saying that the movie's overall claims are untrue, but the details are coming from people who forgot to mention they attended Islamist training camps.

9/9/2009 11:10:40 AM

only one of them did.

and i didn't know it was against US law to attend a camp like that, if the intention is just to learn about weapons.

9/9/2009 11:12:50 AM

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"Everyone in Guantanamo who is dangerous can be easily held in America. Everyone who isn't dangerous can simply be returned to their native lands."

that sounds great and all, except we tried that, and no individual states in our country were willing to take them, and no other countries were willing to take them...so basically, no they can't be held in America or their native lands because nobody will take them

^charity work? lol, what a bunch of fucking lying terrorists

[Edited on September 9, 2009 at 12:37 PM. Reason : .]

9/9/2009 12:36:28 PM

And that's just because it's political suicide, and it's only political suicide because of the fear-mongering on the right. If Bev Purdue said that she was agreeing to place them in NC, I would have absolutely NO problem with it. In fact, I would encourage it because it would create jobs.

9/9/2009 1:27:15 PM

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"Everyone who isn't dangerous can simply be returned to their native lands."

except the ones that will get tortured/killed in their native lands

9/9/2009 1:28:51 PM

^^How many / what jobs would it create? A few more correctional officers?

9/9/2009 1:54:11 PM

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"Everyone in Guantanamo who is dangerous can be easily held in America.... We have much, much worse people in the Supermax "

oh, shit. now you've done it. you said the magic word

$UP34M/\X

you know that will summon the mighty ex-jailer beast, He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named.

he can smell any reference to himself or jails or faux news.

you better run, cause you can't hide.

9/9/2009 2:07:15 PM

^ You are a retard--but I admit that I LOL-ed.

9/9/2009 2:43:21 PM

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"^^How many / what jobs would it create? A few more correctional officers?"

No clue, but the point is that it wouldn't harm anyone.

9/9/2009 4:23:11 PM

see? what'd i say.

9/9/2009 4:43:04 PM