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Beyond the headline, there is a grim reality that might not register if you don't read this story too closely: The United States of America, for centuries humankind's guarantor of liberties, is considering imprisoning people who are suspected of terrorism, conspiring to commit terrorist acts, or aiding and abetting terror, for life--FOREVER--even though there may be no evidence even to charge them with crimes, let alone convict them.
There is a piece of irony in this Reuter's report--I'm not sure if it is intentional or unintentional. The story reads, in part:
One proposal would transfer large numbers of Afghan, Saudi and Yemeni detainees from the U.S. military's Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center into new U.S.-built prisons in their home countries, it said.
The prisons would be operated by those countries, but the State Department, where this idea originated, would ask them to abide by recognized human rights standards and would monitor compliance, a senior administration official was quoted as saying.
In other words, we would deny these suspects the most basic of civil liberties--freedom under the protection of due process of the law--but we would ask their outsourced captors to ensure their civil rights? Is it just me? Or is this the most ridiculous contradiction that's ever come out of any US administration?
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