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Originally Posted by Dragonlich
To illustrate my point: willravel, the "war on terror" has moved beyond 9/11. People in Guantanamo bay generally don't have anything to do with that. They're suspected of being members of Al Qaida, which means they'd do *other* nasty things if not stopped. They're suspected of planning more 9/11-style attacks. Suppose the US hadn't arrested them... Some of them might have blown up the White house, or bombed downtown LA. Should the US have waited for that to happen?
What would *you* have done with Al Qaida members discovered in Afghanistan???
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I've been mentioned twice this week!! This is good times (growing reputation, perhaps?). Okay, war on terror...grown beyond 9/11..m hmm...alright. Sounds good.
Here we have some more prolems. Yes, the members of the al-Qaeda are *suspected* of planning "more 9/11-style attacks". What should we do with people suspected of acting illegally? We should arrest them, then investigate them. After we gather evidence, we should put them on trial. If found guiilty, they should be punished.
The problem I have with this is that people *suspected* of being connected with terrorist activity are just thrown in prison. There is no trial or sentencing process. We just hear about them, grab them, put them in a prison, and interrogate them; possibly until the day they die. Now we all know that information about terrorists is inconsistant to say the least (we found out that 4 of the 12 of the people that were supposedly on the planes that attacked were noteven aboard, for example), so why are we condeming people to life sentences when "the Government does not have enough evidence to charge in courts"? The fact that they can't convict means that these people are more likely to be innocent.
What would I have done? Well I'm not qualified, but I would have investigated all of them, and put all of them on trial. If they were found guilty, they would be sentenced. If they were found innocent, I would put them on probation (call in or check in every week). I'm making this up as I go, but you can see how there are alternatives to imprisoning the possibly innocent.
