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Posted by Nilet on Tue Jun 3 08:54:53 2014, in response to Re: Obama Frees Five Prisoners From Gitmo!, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jun 3 07:52:58 2014. It isn't about "someone changing planes at JFK", Canadian citizen or otherwise.Someone changing planes in JFK is what literally happened. It's about what they have done, or who they are involved with. OK, what did he do and who was he involved with? And how did it justify him being imprisoned and tortured? You like to make some seemingly innocent phrase such as "someone changing planes", trying to make a point using the innocent absurd, yet fail to engage that in the big picture. The big picture is this: The US government claims that it has the right to arrest/kidnap anyone from anywhere on the planet, and lock them up forever without any oversight and without offering them any recourse. You, me, your kids, politicians who oppose them— anyone. This is self-evidently wrong and I can't fathom how you could possibly be trying to justify it. The guy who was changing planes is one example of the United States invoking this policy to disastrous effect, included for the sake of putting a human face on the problem. It's the same reason why it wasn't about a "bacon cheeseburger" either. Dude, everybody already agreed it was about a bacon cheeseburger. Including yourself. |
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