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Sorry For the Detainment, Here's a Laptop
A select group of 17 Uighur Muslims held in Guantánamo, and waiting for a nation to grant them asylum are getting laptops and web training from the US military. Their web training will take place in a virtual computer lab the military has set up. The lessons will be limited to DVD language training as well as a basic users skill — set to help in any future employment options. Nury Turkel, an Uighur rights activist, said the training would help the men "be reintroduced into a modern society," adding that it "also would give hope to the men that their freedom is nearing." This special group already gets to order fast food and use a phone booth for weekly calls. I think the government is on to something here. Nothing keeps a man pacified like an occasional phone call, a cheeseburger, and surfing for a little porn.
So it seems like soon the level of freedom in our illegal prisons and the general populace will converge on some middle ground like this one. We should all be grateful to our fast-food providing overlords. I miss freedom, QQ.
"If still these truths be held to be
Self evident."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
and people like you make the rest of us question whether our "side" deserves to win sometimes.
By the way, the terrorists have nearly won already. We're less free and have less of the ethical high ground than ever before.
"If still these truths be held to be
Self evident."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
I miss freedom, QQ.
You used to be free? Where are you from? I'd like to move there. I appreciate what I have here in the US, but I define a free country as being one that simply provides basic services to its citizens and implements laws to the extent that people are protected from one another. If that exists on Earth, I've yet to find it.
Back on-topic, it sounds like these folks are being prepped for return to somewhere in the West (TFA states English and Spanish language training). I usually like seeing states being allowed for themselves what they'd like to do, but we've made such a mess of this that I don't care if Virginia's legislators are objecting to these guys moving there - Force them to take them regardless if we can't find a friendlier place. It'll be tough on these guys, but probably a big step up from Gitmo. And with the integration training they're getting and support from the local Uighur population, maybe they can avoid some of the Gitmo stigma.
There must be a tacky "What's shipped to Cuba, stays in Cuba," joke here.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
I dunno, I'm sure some of their resumes are stocked full of skills that some countries would be interested in.
US likes them so much they won't let them go away.
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
Please define rule of law.
Military? Or do you mean the Constitution, for which does not apply to them?
"They said I probly shouldn't fly with just one eye," "I am Bender. Please insert girder."
Honestly, they should be released here in the US. We're the reason they, unjustly, spent the last half a decade in a hellish prison we should, at the least, man-up and take responsibility for our actions rather than try to pawn them off on someone else. I think the bigger disgrace is that they have spent even a day in that place past the point where we, publicly, admitted they aren't terrorists.
Rules of Conduct:
#1 - The DM is always right.
#2 - If the DM is wrong, see rule #1
(Say what you will about Castro, he dose not let anyone else mistreat Cubans.)
Dude, really? Castro rents Cuban doctors out to 3rd world countries and does not allow them to keep their salary (the Cuban government takes the biggest cut) - so het is basically a slave trader. He also keeps their family in Cuba to ensure that they do not defect to other countries.
Unlike what the left in the USA likes to believe, Castro is a dictatorial prick - and not a benevolent dictator.
Naive Much ?
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Perhaps I wasn't specific enough. Weapons in hand shooting at Coalition troops, lead by or members of Taliban.
Why do you persist in this fiction that random individuals were grabbed from their beds and shipped at great expense half way around the world?
Are you a total idiot, or do you just think the average American Soldier is?
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Honestly, it doesn't even matter: Bush's insistence on manufacturing a new term for them and keeping them in a hole for 5 years means that any of the ones that are actually dangerous can't be prosecuted anyway. That must frost you.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Oh look so mouc hcourage that you post as AC virtually admitting that you know your post is bullshit, and are ashamed of it.
I can give you a citation, my opinion and that of most of the people I know of America has gone from 30 years of admiration to dislike in the last 10 years, as has the opinion of most of the rest of the world. I would no go as far as hate, but its getting there, particularly looking at the some of the crap in this thread.