Virginia congressmen: Terrorists – NIMBY
By JR Hoeft | Friday, February 27th, 2009 | PolicyReps. Forbes, Cantor and Wolf are introducing a bill in the House asking that Guantanamo Bay prisoners not be transferred to Virginia’s military or federal prisons.
H.R. 1186, introduced by Forbes and co-sponsored by Wolf and Cantor, would prevent the use of funds to transfer those individuals detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to facilities in Virginia or to house such individuals at such facilities.
Given the fact that these facilities are used to house other prisoners too, this bill makes sense: Unless we’re calling these accused terrorists common criminals now.
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4 Responses to "Virginia congressmen: Terrorists – NIMBY"
Prisoners of War.
While I reluctantly support the closure of Guantanamo as a POW camp. I do not understand why we do not open a new facility somewhere else for our Prisoners of War.
I understand that this issue is complicated. That some prisoners do not deserve to be held. However, many of those already released have returned to open hostility towards the United States.
There is no time limit according to the Geneva Conventions for holding POW’s. There is nothing in there that claims we need should release those engaged in a war prior to the end of the war. What war? Ask those released who have returned to hostility what war they are engaged in.
I think that many, I’ll even say most, should be continued to be held in accordance with the Geneva Conventions as Prisoners of War. When the war is over, then we release them. When those we release accept the outcome of the war, and stop continuing to take up arms against us, then it is safe for us to do so.
As an aside, if Virginia is selected to be the point of our new POW camp I support it. As long the security provided matches that in GITMO.
“accused terrorists”? if the Bush Administration had actually accused them of anything we wouldn’t be in this predicament right now. and its now about them accepting the outcome of the war, but rather them being pissed off for being in jail.
Imagine if one of the vigilantes along our southern border was arrested and jailed for 5 years without being given a lawyer or any rights. Then say we released him. Do you think he wouldn’t have some animosity towards us?
anyway, we don’t have to treat them as common criminals. we can treat them like vicious criminals and book charges against them and put them on trial. or we could just forget that we are Americans and continue what we are doing.
Amit,
We need only treat them, according to the Geneva Conventions, as Prisoners of War.
We do not need to dream up a new category for them.
[...] this month, Rep. Frank Wolf joined other members of the Virginia Congressional Delegation in co-sponsoring legislation against the Obama administration from moving detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Virginia prisons. [...]
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