Someone help me understand this

[FaithInOne]

Let them get their pushed in by America's Brand of Hardened Criminals.

We may be soft, but we can still produce some bad mf'ers in the pen. Surely the Aryan brotherhood would have enough pride not to be converted to the cause.

[Wild Cobra]

Surely the Aryan brotherhood would have enough pride not to be converted to the cause.

LOL...

Let then share the playground with that group, and see what happens...

[George Gervin's Afro]

The individuals at gitmo are just too dangerous to risk bringing here. They have the skills of a master ninja so if they were to escape then law enforcement would have no chance of capturing them again. They have also studied every episode of McGyver, so they could easily build a nuclear bomb out of bubble gum and cigarette butts and kill us all. It's just too risky!


Either that or it's just because all politics are local.

That's about the most logical explanation for this hysteria..

[LnGrrrR]

You don't put them in regular prisons with regular inmates because you'd basically be treating them as regular criminals.

The government wants to treat them as enemy combatants. You don't put prisoners of war in a jail with your civilian prisoners.

Now if we're talking about a military prison on the mainland, like Leavenworth or something, then that's different and from a practical standpoint it wouldn't make much of a difference. But I don't think that's what the majority of people are talking about.

I think not closing Getmo is more symbolic now than anything.

Prisoner of war =/= nonlawful enemy combatant

So you could put them with the regular population... or keep up this 'third way', where they're not POWs OR regular prisoners. Which, to me, is asinine.

[LnGrrrR]

What makes you think they have it bad in Gitmo? My understanding is they have it pretty good, considering it's a prison.

Well, if for some reason, I shared a cell with a terrorist, I would kill him with my bare hands if he didn't kill me first!

Ever think that may be part of the problem? Believe it od not, we have people in jail who love this country. Mixing in terrorists...

Talk about another prison gang to deal with! How bad do you think the problems between prisoners would become?

Ahh but you'd be cool with sharing a cell with say, a rapist or pedophile, right? :P

Prisoners share prison space with all types of vile people. That's one of the incentives NOT to go to jail.

[ChumpDumper]

What if they try to convert other inmates, american civilians, to terrorism?

Yeah, the possibility of recruiting other Americans to their cause was one of the arguments I recently heard on the radio against bringing them here.

Please -- rumor had it that Ramzi Yousef converted to Christianity and now eats pork.

Do we have any reports of his converting anyone else to radical Islam in Colorado over the past 12 years?

How about Richard Reid?

Zacarias Moussaoui?

They're all in the same place, you know.

Terra-ists on American soil! I bet you're afraid now!

[angrydude]

Prisoner of war =/= nonlawful enemy combatant

So you could put them with the regular population... or keep up this 'third way', where they're not POWs OR regular prisoners. Which, to me, is asinine.

Well the government wants to call them nonlawful combatants (whatever that is). In order to call them that they don't want to treat them like civilians, otherwise the terrorist will use that in court to dispute their designation. They'll say that since they are being treated as regular civilian prisoners, they should have the rights of regular citizens.

The govt. doesn't want them to be able to do that.

The rest of it is just politics.

[boutons_deux]

"One in seven of the 534 prisoners ... has returned to terrorism or militant activity."

If they were prove-able terrorist or militants, WTF were they released?

[whottt]

Let them get their pushed in by America's Brand of Hardened Criminals.

We may be soft, but we can still produce some bad mf'ers in the pen. Surely the Aryan brotherhood would have enough pride not to be converted to the cause.

LOL...

Let then share the playground with that group, and see what happens...

True...first time one of the terrorists says, "down with Israel", the Aryan brotherhood will be all over his ass..no doubt.

Kindred spirits...not enemies.

[MiamiHeat]

These are NOT conventional soldiers. They do NOT fight for a government or country.

They are idealist terrorists. Treat them as such. They are not POW's

[FaithInOne]

True...first time one of the terrorists says, "down with Israel", the Aryan brotherhood will be all over his ass..no doubt.

Kindred spirits...not enemies.

lmao, I might have overlooked a small detail.

[Spurminator]

Please -- rumor had it that Ramzi Yousef converted to Christianity and now eats pork.

Do we have any reports of his converting anyone else to radical Islam in Colorado over the past 12 years?

How about Richard Reid?

Zacarias Moussaoui?

They're all in the same place, you know.

Terra-ists on American soil! I bet you're afraid now!

How many of the Gitmo detainees even speak English?

[j-6]

Let them get their pushed in by America's Brand of Hardened Criminals.

We may be soft, but we can still produce some bad mf'ers in the pen. Surely the Aryan brotherhood would have enough pride not to be converted to the cause.

Kind of my thought when I read this. If convicts brand and rape child molesters, wouldn't they lube up with lard (rendered pig fat) and gangbang-ass- Islamic terrorists until they bled to death? One doubts many of the guards would give a .