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[bryant]

I’m really hoping this one is wrong. Certainly the term “death camp” is overblown rhetoric. The reality is bad enough. We can’t be executing prisoners without very open due process, and Guantanamo Bay is a closed system. No appeals, no juries. No spectators.

This is not an accusation. I do not say that the proceedings would be unfair; I can’t say that, because I don’t know who the men on the tribunals would be. What I’m saying is this: our system is an open one precisely because our Founding Fathers knew that it was necessary; it is an open system because we are expected not to trust the government’s unsupported word.

Proof of fairness is a burden that lies on the shoulders of the court. They must not refuse to take up that burden.

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[tavella.livejournal.com]

Mmm. I agree about the doubts about the source, but the asserted facts are pretty much the logical outcome of the situation. They've announced that they are going to hold trials; they can't do them in the US, because the moment they bring prisoners here they lose the magic Gitmo zone exemption the courts have been handing them. And the same for executions. So if they want to do capital trials -- and I have trouble seeing this administration, which is in love with the death penalty, not doing so -- they have to set it all up at Gitmo.