Posted on 06/09/2016 4:45:50 PM PDT by HarborSentry
My plan for closing Guantanamo would be rather different than President Obama's.
I would first restrict the detainees' access to news, and then stop their lawyer visits.
Then I'd feed them fake news. Make it look like Hillary wins the election, and that Al Qaeda is winning the war on terror. Make them think the war is ending, and Al Qaeda is victorious. Give them better food, and more benefits, as we're ostensibly remorseful.
Tell them they'll all be leaving soon, now that the war is ending. Promise each of them millions of dollars in reparations upon their return to the new Caliphate.
Our guards will need to audition so that they can act suitably humble.
Park a 747 at the airfield with a black-and-white color scheme suitable for an Al Qaeda airline.
Finally, tell them the truth. Guantanamo is not closing. They're not going home. Maybe, if we're lucky, President Trump can deliver this news personally. Take away all the new benefits we gave them. Make Guantanamo worse than ever before.
Like Trump, I see no reason to close Guantanamo. The war's not over yet.
The critics can whine all they want, but my idea isn't really all that much worse than telling people you're going to “close Guantanamo” when you're really only planning to move it to a prison in the U.S. — the Obama plan.
It's a pity they don't do stuff like this in real life. Not precisely, anyway.
I am aware of one trick they did, reported in the file of detainee Jamal Al-Harith (ISN 490):
[D]uring a recent PSYOP/JDOG experiment in Camp Delta called “Dining Out” (where ethnic food was prepared for a select group of detainees), the detainee was noticed calling out to other detainees in other blocks that the food tasted just like that from a restaurant in Jedda, Saudi Arabia. According to the detainee's story, he has never been to Saudi Arabia.
Al-Harith was released to the U.K. in 2004. He told stories of being served old food and dirty water — and the beatings. The human rights movement repeated those stories without a hint of skepticism. The British government gave him one million pounds for all his trouble.
The money must have run out. His last reported location was in Syria, where he now resides as a member of ISIS.
Execute them. Bury them at sea. Be done with it in a weekend
Give them a military tribunal where they are charged with murder and terrorism. Cover them with pig’s blood then execute them and bury them with pig carcasses.
Just before World War I, there were a number of terrorist attacks
on the United States forces in the Philippines by Muslim extremists.
So General Pershing captured 50 terrorists and had them tied to posts for execution.
He then had his men bring in two pigs and slaughter them in front of the now horrified
terrorists. Muslims detest pork because they believe pigs are filthy animals. Some of them simply refuse to eat it, while others won’t even touch pigs at all, nor any of their by-products. To them, eating or touching a pig, its meat, its blood, etc., is to be instantly barred from paradise (and those virgins) and doomed to hell. The soldiers then soaked their bullets in pigs blood, and proceeded to execute 49 of the terrorists by firing squad. The soldiers then dug a big hole, dumped in the terrorist’s bodies and covered them in pig blood, entrails, etc. They let the 50th man go. And for the next forty-two years, there was not a single Muslim extremist attack anywhere in the world.
Don’t close it. Add Hillary to the inmate population.
1. Shoot them all.
2. THERE IS NO #2.
The base is expensive. Offer it back to Cuba for the overthrow of the Castros.
Put blood on the bullets? I say use bow and arrows to kill the pigs. pull them out and use them again-slower death. M I sick?
That all of them were not hanged at 11:59 am on 1/20/09 is a travesty.
A friend of mine has a large fishing vessel. He said he would transport the detainees back to their homeland—that he could probably make six trips a day.
And their lawyers.
True, but even Obama wasn’t going to release most of those guys. Or rather, none of his Defense Secretaries would have.
Five of them (including KSM, but not all in your list) had decided they’d plead guilty and take the death penalty in December 2008. Sadly, it’s after Obama tried to restart everything that they decided to go through the trial.
We really do need to do this.
But perhaps they should first pray over the fate of the pigs. Those pigs will deserve a lot more respect than the terrorists do.
Or nuke every territory that Al Qaeda and ISIS are claiming, but leave them alive to fret over it.
Round up the many thousands of corrupt people in agencies like the IRS, EPA, DOJ, etc. and lock them up.
There would have been a sort-of symmetry with the 1981 Iran hostage trade deal happening during the ceremony. It would almost have been poetic.
HarborSentry,
I have absolutely no trust in anything Obama does. Like I mentioned in my post, his entire intent to close GITMO is based in my mind upon the idea of changing the process from military tribunal, where it is supposed to be, to a civilianized court proceeding to change the rules in favor of the offender. He is taking the enemy of this country, not a citizen, and affording them the rights and privileges of our Constitution and laws they do not deserve as combatants.
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And from now on, take no prisoners.
I agree, but I think it’s worse than that. The Constitution is irrelevant to him.
The funny part is that Obama and the Supreme Court both proved that Guantanamo is legal. We always knew it was legal, but it’s harder for the left to dispute it now. Both of them wound up going along with indefinite detention.
The sad part is that Obama really is capable of doing a lot worse. I think he would do more harm as soon as there is something to be gained by it for the left. January 20th cannot come soon enough.
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