While reading Michael Isikoff’s piece on the Newsweek blog regarding the Club G’tmo detainees, I discovered an ironic twist of rich, chocolatey sweet, goodness all the way down at the end of the article.
Remember all of the whining, crying, protesting, and hand wringing about how the detainees at Club G’tmo were supposedly being mistreated in all sorts of ways? Yeah, it turns out that things are so bad there…the detainees want to stay.
Now, in a classic curve ball type twist of fate, the “horribly abused, totally miserable” detainees at G’tmo are, according to their lawyers, preparing to fight their transfer to the Land of Lincoln.
But the final irony is that many of the detainees may not even want to be transferred to Thomson and could conceivably even raise their own legal roadblocks to allow them to stay at Gitmo.
Yep, you read that right; the detainees want to stay down in G’tmo enjoying the sand, the surf, and the balmy ocean breezes. They like their three meals a day, running water, and interaction with one another. Turns out they like not being confined in high security SuperMax type conditions:
Falkoff notes that many of his clients, while they clearly want to go home, are at least being held under Geneva Convention conditions in Guantánamo. At Thomson, he notes, the plans call for them to be thrown into the equivalent of a “supermax” security prison under near-lockdown conditions.
One final point.
Club G’tmo earned it’s negative reputation largely because of the false reporting regarding a supposedly toilet flushed Koran…
Which “news” publication fabricated that story and passed it off as truth?
Any chance of refurbishing Alcatraz? The sharks are really hungry.
That would be……..Michael Isikoff’s own misreporting at NewsWeak that fired up the Islamofacists with that false claim, he’s still listening to the tales of terrorists. I note that he did not include opinions of any that doesn’t want GITMO closed, probably because he did not seek those opinions for his story for fear of a bit of common sense infiltrating the public’s conscious.
Also, if the Congressional hold expires September 30, why is he even talking about Republicans blocking anything? If it’s such a stellar idea, move them October 1st. It’s the democrats that are crying foul on this, why even bring in “the Republicans, the Republicans?”
I personally don’t want them in Illinois and the majority of Illinoisans don’t either. This is a cash cow for FOO, and the crooked politicians in Ill. This prison is in my son’s best friend’s back yard and believe me, the majority in that neighborhood do not want it either. That sleepy little town isn’t going to know what hit it.
Now, since no one asked, wonder why the Cages in Baghram and Kabul are full of these folks that did not get that vacation at Club Gitmo? No gourmet meals, soccer or volleyball there. No Medical & Dental care on demand or climate controlled suites. No US Constitutional Rights or legal counsel from Eric Holder’s old Law Firm or any other things that the Geneva Conventions don’t cover.
It is because the Afghan Government runs the cages, not the US Military or the Terrorist sympathetic US DOJ. They will be treated as Terrorists, not juvenile delinquents. They can be held for the duration. Period. They are not on US Soil or Officially in US Custody. If we capture them and turn them over to the Afghan Government, from actions on Afghan Soil, no pampering necessary.
Lessons learned. No one fast tracked the Military Tribunals and the Obama Admin. does not understand either the Geneva or Hague Conventions because of outright ignorance or stupidity and incompetence or all of the above. Bush owns a piece of this too so I’m not letting anyone off the hook.
A military tribunal and summarily shot would solve all the g’tmo problems. It seems that when terrorist capture our people they cut their heads off, but we must treat them under the Geneva Convention rules. It’s all BS.
Aye,
Glad you brought up the Newsweek – Koran scam. Considering that people were actually killed over the fraudulent claim of desecration, I’ve often wondered why some enterprising lawyer has not sought damages on behalf of the families of those murdered in the name of Allah and Newsweek.
I live fairly close to Thompson, and I want to assure everyone that we have a warm welcome awaiting the muzzies from Gitmo. Our recent lows each night have been about 5 below zero, with wind chills around 20 to 30 below, so we can hardly wait to have those fellows come to the neighborhood and go for a walk on the frozen Mississippi. Gitmo will be fondly remembered.