From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> Sent: Oct 20, 2004 3:10 PM To: "cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net" <cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net> Subject: Re: Airport insanity
Lots of murderous terrorists have been released from Guatanamo, and in the nearly all cases the most serious of their complaints make it sound like a beach resort, except for the fact that they could not leave.
Maybe I missed that. All but one of the comments I read about involved a lot of complaints about mistreatment, albeit often with the admission that Gitmo was still better than being in an Afghan prison. As a nitpick, though, it's not at all clear that most of the people at Gitmo were really terrorists, or even murderers. None of them has had a trial, few have even had hearings, and many were released as not a threat to us. (They may still be a threat to everyone else around them.)
A few have more serious complaints. Either they are lying or, those who say they were well treated apart from being held captive are lying.
Surely the other alternative is that only some prisoners are subjected to torture, e.g., the ones that look to have some serious intelligence value.
James A. Donald
--John