Gitmo can at once:

- be a place for the worst of the worst

- a prison that has released more than half of its detainees without charge.

If only all the officers working the prosecutions would resign, there would be no system. One by one, they are peeling away. Perhaps there is hope?

more than half the american electorate know what the american government is doing, and approve of it. if they didn't approve, they would instruct their representatives to impeach bush and cheney.

under these conditions, emigration is the answer. i recommend switzerland or costa rica, or canada or australia or... well, lots of places don't run show trials, use torture, or drop bombs on wedding parties. find one that will let you in, in spite of an american passport.

For any Australians, who have seen Colonel Davis on tv dozens of times defending the indefensible, in his determined prosecution of the unfortunate David Hicks, the idea of him resigning on principle is unbelievable.

He is a lawyers' lawyer all right, and I mean that in the worst possible way.

The article did NOT get down to the heart of the matter: How come US citizens have not yet risen up in protest against the grotesque abuse of a civil society committed by GW Bush and his criminal gang?

Unless US citizens raise their voices in protest, rise up and throw these scoundrels out of power and into prison (preferably at Guantanamo for the rest of their miserable lives), they must be judged to be complicit in the crimes committed by GW Bush and Gang.

--- GSC

Of the cancer of neocon corporate fascism in American politics. Guantanamo is the pilot program for a plan involving the indefinite detention of much larger groups of people. Halliburton was given a contract for over 300 million dollars a couple of years ago to build more detention centers. The modus operandi of the neocons is to maintain a surface appearance of legality, while secretly or semi-secretly pursuing their ends by criminal means. And these people are criminals, in both the ethical and legal senses of the word. Yet because they operate through government offices, using government resources, and are able to orchestrate their propaganda through mainstream media, the American people are lulled into either supporting them or giving them a pass.

So many violations of the Constitution and moral outrages have been perpetrated by the Bush Administration over the last seven years, with so little discomfort or protest from the public, that I despair sometimes of America ever being able to reclaim its reputation as a land of liberty and justice.

I have often wondered how many of these prisoners are actually guilty of terrorism??? When half have already been released with no charges being brought against them. That looks extremely suspicious to me! And tells me a whole lot about what's going on down there. Guantanamo Bay looks more like a dog and pony show that Bush is putting on to impress his neocon buddies on how tough he is! If these people are actual terrorist's I would think Bush would be thrilled to present his evidence to the American people for examination! He wouldn't be so secretive and unwilling for any of it to hit the light of day. He would have it brought into US courts and be willing to show the American people he is tough on terrorism. This tells me there is likely little or no evidence against most of these men. That the camp comes closer to being the Gulag's the Soviet Union had for political prisoners who opposed their government! We all know it didn't take a whole lot to get thrown in a Gulag and disappear forever.

I have E Mailed my Congressmen and Senator's so many times complaining about this abuse and other abuses George Bush has committed. I would imagine they know my name by heart now! But, considering the Congressman and 1 Senator are Republican and Bush's favorite lap dogs it did no good! When the Democrat tries he gets hacked down by the neocon's in our state! So I have given up on that. I am currently trying to think up some other route to take.

The US will in fact, with your complicity, keep as many of those people locked up for life w/o trial as they can. That's obvious.

Isn't this a prime example of an ex post facto law which is prohibited by the US Constitution? See Article 1, Section 9.

Wikipedia Quote: "An ex post facto law (from the Latin for "After The Fact") or retroactive law, is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences of acts committed or the legal status of facts and relationships that existed prior to the enactment of the law. In reference to criminal law, it may criminalize actions that were legal when committed; or it may aggravate a crime by bringing it into a more severe category than it was in at the time it was committed; or it may change or increase the punishment prescribed for a crime, such as by adding new penalties or extending terms; or it may alter the rules of evidence in order to make conviction for a crime more likely than it would have been at the time of the action for which a defendant is prosecuted."

... is not an objective example of 'justice' - it is the concretization of politics. It is the concretization of the dominant political paridigm, in fact.

Believing in the law all the time means you actually believe that the powers that be will be on your side.

Not always. Naivete. As we witness in this sorry, even criminal, example. The U.S. turned their endless 'war' against 'terrorism' on it's head, and became terrorists too.

But what else is new?

fact: That while Col. Morris Davis has disputes with trial procedures established by the Military Commissions Act (last I checked, Col. Davis was not a Member of Congress and therefor not empowered to rewrite the Act for his own pleasure), he nevertheless believes that he was right to charge Hamdan -- he prepared the charges against Hamdan himself -- and Davis still believes Hamdan to have been guilty of conspiring with al Qaeda to harm Americans?

Why didn't you report that helpful little factoid?