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15 Released from Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp

posted by martyb on Thursday August 18 2016, @12:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the gradually-getting-Gitmo-gone dept.

butthurt writes:

Al Jazeera and Fox News (Tor-friendly archived copy) report that fifteen captives have been released from the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba. The prisoners, who were captured in Afghanistan and Yemen, are being transferred to the United Arab Emirates for settlement.

There remain 61 prisoners at the camp, of whom at least 19 have been cleared for release.

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday August 18 2016, @02:16PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday August 18 2016, @02:16PM (#389596)

    It sounds like you're pretty passionate about it, so it's probably influenced your voting habits, at the very least?

    It's hard to have it influence your voting habits when the existence of that particular injustice is part of a "bipartisan consensus", when all your congressional candidates and presidential candidates and such either support it or are silent about it.

    The good news, of course, is that there are presidential candidates who are against Gitmo (Johnson, Stein). The bad news is that they are very unlikely to win.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 18 2016, @05:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 18 2016, @05:46PM (#389663)

    The bad news is that they are very unlikely to win.

    Yeah, because no-one votes for them because no-one thinks they can win because no-one votes for them because no one things they have a chance of winning because...
    You get my point
    Just vote for them already then... Don't be a coward, vote for what you want, not against what you don't want!
    Break the cycle, man

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 18 2016, @07:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 18 2016, @07:41PM (#389703)

      Johnson isn't getting a vote because he's all about deregulating employment at a time when employment is already disproportionately in favor of the company rather than the work.

      And Stein isn't getting a vote because she publicly supports quack science.

      At this point I think my vote for 2016 is Barr. She wants us to pull financial support from Israel, has overall sensible policies across (even if I don't agree with all of them) and has been campaigning for at least 2 elections now, so you know she is serious.

      Additionally getting a third party that isn't just Republican/Democrat lite might be more refreshing to the long term goal of a diversified political landscape, even if it doesn't happen this election.