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posted by martyb on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the indefinite-detention dept.

Donald Trump has signed an executive order to keep the Guantánamo Bay prison camp open, reversing the policy of the Obama administration.

In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, Trump said he had directed the defence secretary, James Mattis, "to re-examine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay". He added that he expected that "in many cases" captured terrorists would be sent to the camp.

The Trump executive order instructs Mattis, in consultation with the secretary of state and other officials, to deliver a new policy on battlefield detentions, "including policies governing transfer of individuals to US Naval Station Guantánamo Bay" within 90 days.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/30/guantanamo-bay-trump-signs-executive-order-to-keep-prison-open


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by fyngyrz on Thursday February 01 2018, @05:27PM (2 children)

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday February 01 2018, @05:27PM (#631565) Journal

    One thing that stands out to me is this: These congress-critters generally hold themselves up as penultimate examples of hyper-patriotism. It seems a lot more like jingoism to me, but those so inclined can just call it patriotism if it suits them. It's still pretty damned hyper. These congress-critters loudly and regularly claim the US is the best, and our way of life is the best, and are literally directly responsible for our legal system, which they also claim is the best.

    But our way of life, specifically our legal system, isn't, according to them, good enough to deal with the acts of these people. Their (imaginary) God forbid that these people have access to lawyers, trials, juries. They have to be kept offshore, on another country's territory, where they have no options to defend against false accusations or otherwise cope whatsoever.

    I am constantly reminded by this (and other things) that the pervading attitude in congress is that the US legal system is only to be used when they find it convenient.

    First they came for...

    Yeah.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @01:27AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @01:27AM (#631820)

    That word doesn't mean what you think it does.
    pen != arch|uber|hyper
    http://www.google.com/search?q=penultimate [google.com]

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Friday February 02 2018, @05:32AM

      by fyngyrz (6567) on Friday February 02 2018, @05:32AM (#631899) Journal

      Penultimate in that context meant exactly what I intended it to mean; next to last on the list of invalid patriotic archetypes, higher only than their (imaginary) "God." They imagine they are placing themselves as the highest authorities; but are actually placing themselves at the lowest possible place – right next to a poorly put together superstition.

      But thanks for playing. Always fun to bandy actual words around. You almost caught what I was saying, too, which is laudable. :)