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• Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:43 PM

  @ RichD

  While I agree there may be one person who legitimately had bad intentions RE: Harming The U.S. before being detained at Gitmo. we have a rule here that applies, hopefully, to us all, and ought to apply to them, that we are "innocent until proven guilty", and one of the results to ensure we do not imprison one not guilty person is that occasionally a guilty person gets let go. But "doing the right thing" has a price we all ought to be willing to pay. (imagine it were YOUR SON in there for no reason?).

  but more importantly, for the men who harbored no resentment towards us before their lock -up, I would fully comprehend if the first thing they do upon their release IS to go and join Al-Queda within hours of their release. I cannot imagine being locked, isolated for 22-24 hrs. a day, in a cell with the lights on, not to mention the occasional blaring of Hot ChiliPeppers music non stop for hours or waterboarding.

  I HAVE drowned once as an adolescent, and I can tell you when that water gets in your airways, there is almost no greater terror, and I saw the light above. I cannot imagine knowing that two guys were intentionally doing this to me and were going to continue to do it to me for some time.

  Torture or the rule of certain laws are similar. They are fine to impose on others, "Heck, we need those answers 'to save' people!" but, "don't do it to me! I don't deserve it!"

  —papabotts Read papabotts's other letters
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