From ehunter:
“How do we know they are Terrorists eh?
1. Their names were found on terrorist camp
registries.
2. They were caught on the battle field bearing weapons.
3. They were implicated by by the testimonies of multiple persons and their own confessions.
4. Their conversations were bugged, their laptops infiltrated, their passports examined.”
Well, no, that’s not quite right-
Here is an item from USA Today, dated March 19, 2009
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A former Bush administration official says many Guantanamo detainees are innocent, and have been held only because U.S. officials hoped they would know something important.
Lawrence B. Wilkerson was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. He says only two dozen or so of the roughly 800 men held at Guantanamo are terrorists. About 240 prisoners remain at the US military prison.
“There are still innocent people there,” Wilkerson told The Associated Press on Thursday. “Some have been there six or seven years.”
Wilkerson says he learned of their innocence through State Department briefings and military commanders. He first made the allegations in an Internet posting this week.
The Pentagon has said the detainees are dangerous enemy combatants.
The fact is, SOME of the detainees were actually captured ont hebattlefield; SOME had evidence against them and SOME are probably guilty.
But others, and no one knows how many, might be innocent.
Innocent, and held without trials, or charges, for years. No one reading this blog has seen any evidence personally- the only evidence anyone has seen is what the government has released, without any way to cross examine, or check it for inaccuracies.
And to Davod’s point, the Uighurs ARE a threat- to the Chinese Communist government.
And so we have come to the point in America where our government is doing the dirty work of imprisoning Chinese dissidents on behalf of the Communist regime.
This is exactly what the Founding Fathers fought against.
