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Ongoing Gitmo Hunger-Strike Spurs Prison to Impose Media Blockade

Because they have been not charged of anything. Our government is just holding them without charging them.

Our government kills innocent and supposedly terrorists without a trial with Obama's drones. I suggest we move our military out of Club Getmo and let a few drones finish off who's left.
 
So freedom of the press should be absolute,
Absolutely.
A well informed public and a open government is absolutely necessary in the system we have.
but freedom of religion has become freedom FROM religion.

:lamo Oh god!
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Thewre was a 60 minutes report a few weeks ago after the hunger strike - unless this is a new one?

Some of those guys have been there for almost a decade, be nice to actually give them a trial before they die of old age.

Wouldn't a trial be unconstitutional?

The world is a complicated place and the President is doing the best he can on a wide range of issues. He was just elected into office about a year ago.

A whole year? My how time flies.

Close the place down.

Then release them. If they indeed are terrorists they will go back to their ways, will be targeted and hopefully killed. If they are not terrorists - well, they'll be pissed off enough to maybe become one.

That is what im advocating for

I assume they keep adding prisoners so they can't close it down. They could have just transferred these guys to a Super-Max prison right here in good old America, the land of the free. But this must be an ongoing process and you can't smuggle in new prisoners on the mainland and hope to keep it secret.

If you think I'm wrong about this, then explain why it's still there when nobody at all likes it. It's a huge embarrassment to America. There is only one reason to keep it there and let these guys die there. Even if they were all let go, there aren't that many of them. This is our "secret" prison that follows no laws. Goes perfectly with drones.
 
Ongoing Gitmo Hunger-Strike
If they are serious, we should be hearing about some deaths from natural causes (ie: self imposed starvation) shortly.
I have no problem with a person choosing to starve their self. They should have that right to do so.
 
Sure, just like he was against same-sex marriage and raising the debt ceiling while Bush was in office...now he's for both.

We expect our leaders to evolve their positions as they get a wider perspective and more knowledge of a subject. No single person can know everything about every subject and our President has acknowledged that there is a good deal for which he was not aware on a wide range of subjects. It is good that our leader is learning about these issues as each crisis becomes known to him.
 
Then that directly contradicts the notion of a "free press"

Not at all.

Freedom of the press.

That is not how that works.

Because they have been not charged of anything. Our government is just holding them without charging them.

Which is not saying they are "cleared to go back home."

The first disappointment of Obama's presidency was that Gitmo's prison wasn't closed in the first three months.

Sadly for democrats, the honeymoon period is just starting to wear off for the vast majority of Americas.

They are terrorists? Why are the vast vast majority cleared to be released back home and havent been charged with anything?

Either it is false, or Obama wants to keep them there.

Freedom of press.

I don't think you know what that phrase means.

We have the BBC for that.

The BBC is state media.

If you have a problem with The Real News, what is it?

Youtube is not a citation.

Actually isnt he starting to try to find a way to close the place down?

Yeah, he has been "trying" since before he was elected. And by trying I mean doing literally nothing.
 
How do we know people aren't just starving the prisoners to death and making it look like its the prisoners own wishes?

We don't. That's the Hell of being detained incognito. May it never happen to anyone here, again.
 
How do we know people arent just starving the prisoners to death and making it look like its the prisoners own wishes?
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You would have to think very poorly of this country to even suggest such a thing.
 
Not at all.



That is not how that works.



Which is not saying they are "cleared to go back home."



Sadly for democrats, the honeymoon period is just starting to wear off for the vast majority of Americas.



Either it is false, or Obama wants to keep them there.



I don't think you know what that phrase means.



The BBC is state media.



Youtube is not a citation.



Yeah, he has been "trying" since before he was elected. And by trying I mean doing literally nothing.




Lots of politicians on both sides of the aisle in Washington, D.C. have been doing/not doing exactly the same thing and as long as the voters keep sending them to Washington the same thing will keep going on.

The only way to change the game is to change the people who are playing it.

Bitching and complaining won't change a thing as long as America keeps sending the same do-nothing people back to Washington.
 
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You would have to think very poorly of this country to even suggest such a thing.

Thats bull. I would have to think poorly of those who run secret prisons that are absurd for the US to have. You can try to use obtuse logic bombs to try to make me look like some sort of zero-patriot but that doesnt mean its true.
 
We could speed up the process of death by send them the same **** our kids eat at school.
 
You would have to think very poorly of this country to even suggest such a thing.
Thats bull. I would have to think poorly of those who run secret prisons that are absurd for the US to have. You can try to use obtuse logic bombs to try to make me look like some sort of zero-patriot but that doesnt mean its true.
You can compartmentalize the actions of our Government all you want. Doesn't change what I said.
It still takes a very low opinion to say such. Which is obvious as what you asked is not something that our country is known to do.

And just because you do not like the concept, or idea of the prison, that in no way shape or form makes them absurd for us to have.
 
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Apparently GITMO has a new policy to not report or release #'s of how many people are still on hunger strike because it attracts to much attention to GITMO. There also seems to be a good amount of prisoners at GITMO who are still on hunger strike.

This is such a fascist policy. As far as I'm concerned GITMO is full of innocent people, because very few of them have been given trials, and without a trial, one can not be guilty of a crime. I find it insane that people would lock people in cages without a trial, all because somebody somewhere said they might be a terrorist.

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You would have to think very poorly of this country to even suggest such a thing.

Not really. We're already permanently imprisoning innocent people (as they haven't had trials), and we know they've been tortured, so withholding food isn't that far of a step.

How would you like it if you were nabbed by a foreign government and put in a secret prison with no contact with the outside world, all because a foreign official thought you might be a terrorist? If they truly are big bad terrorists, we should have no problem convicting them.
 
I find it insane that people would lock people in cages without a trial, all because somebody somewhere said they might be a terrorist.
Prove that is the case with these folks.
 
Prove that is the case with these folks.

I can usually tell when someone responds so fast that they barely read my response and will likely write a poorly thought out one-liner. And here we are.

So you're making the claim that everyone in GITMO has had a trial?

BBC News - Q&A: Guantanamo detentions
No trial, transfer or release: Gitmo's 'indefinite detainees' identified ? RT USA
Guantanamo Indefinite Detainees List Released By Obama Administration

Are you so misinformed that you think they've all been given trials or are you just too lazy to educate yourself on the subject? I imagine you just don't give a **** because if a bureaucrat tells you someone is a terrorist, you believe them.
 
I can usually tell when someone responds so fast that they barely read my response and will likely write a poorly thought out one-liner. And here we are.

So you're making the claim that everyone in GITMO has had a trial?

BBC News - Q&A: Guantanamo detentions
No trial, transfer or release: Gitmo's 'indefinite detainees' identified ? RT USA
Guantanamo Indefinite Detainees List Released By Obama Administration

Are you so misinformed that you think they've all been given trials or are you just too lazy to educate yourself on the subject? I imagine you just don't give a **** because if a bureaucrat tells you someone is a terrorist, you believe them.
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I can tell that you did not pay attention to what I quoted and made response to.
Making you guilty of the which you absurdly proclaim I am.
The fact is, you made an unsupportable claim and are now trying to deflect from it.
I asked for proof of that claim and you failed to provided any (which is being lazy), but you instead responded with an absurd attack. Typical.



Those in Gitmo are not there simply because "somebody somewhere said they might be a terrorist".
 
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