ACLU Applauds U.N.’s Suggestion For U.S. To Close Gitmo

Posted on May 19, 2006

This just in from the ACLU: Free the terrorists!!!

The American Civil Liberties Union today welcomed the recommendations of the U.N. Committee Against Torture which called for an end to U.S. policies that condone torture and abuse. The recommendations come at the conclusion of a three-week session during which the U.N. body of 10 independent experts on torture scrutinized a periodic report by the U.S. government and found it sorely lacking.

Among the many suggestions recommended by the U.N., the ACLU makes a list of the particular ones they are fond of.

One of the suggestions was:

Cease to detain any person at Guantánamo Bay and close this detention facility, permit access by the detainees to judicial process or release them as soon as possible, ensuring that they are not returned to any State where they could face a real risk of being tortured;

The U.N. are insane! Nevermind the fact that the majority of these detainees were caught on the battle field, attended jihadi camps, and will run right back to their terror cells to bring about more death and destruction. I don’t condone torture. If that is really going on then it should be investigated and stopped. However the ACLU should not have the privilege of defining what torture is, and the UN most definitely have no room to talk about abuse when they live in their own glass house.

Jeff Goldstein emphasises the fact that U.N. investigators were invited to inspect the facilities at Guantanamo but chose not to. Jeff notes….

As the Moussaoui debacle showed us, enemy combatants simply don’t belong in our domestic criminal justice system.

And though the UN panel, in its wisdom, may be comfortable proposing that we put these combatants up in, say, a Best Western in Reston, Virginia, I for one wouldn’t feel comfortable with such an arrangement.

Bryan Preston speaks for common sense.

We have set precedent after precedent trying al Qaeda terrorists in civilian courts, and judicial rulings have made it nearly impossible to treat them in any other way. That these terrorists aren’t citizens of the US seems to matter not at all; they’re being given de facto citizenship by gaining access to the same courts and rules citizens would be tried in.

According to the Times Online:

Washington has been soliciting advice on how to rehabilitate detainees who might otherwise rejoin the jihad if freed. One of those consulted, Rohan Gunaratna, the author of Inside Al-Qaeda, said: “The Americans are now seriously thinking of rehabilitation.”

WTH?? That is dangerously insane! Pressure from groups like the ACLU and the UN should not make the U.S. budge to the point of such dangerous thinking. It is nuts to take that kind of risk! If they are jihadis they are brainwashed and believe deeply in it. We can not play catch and release with terrorists! The chances are very high that they will go right back to it, and in my opinion that is not a risk that should even be entertained! Do your best to get them in front of a military tribunal, even though that isn’t even satisfactory for the ACLU, but for heaven’s sake don’t just release them! You have no idea what kind of evil you could be unleashing back into the world!

However these are the kind of dangerous ideas that the ACLU “applauds”!

MVRWC has the correct response to the U.N.’s suggestions.
Also see: Washington Post

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One Response to “ACLU Applauds U.N.’s Suggestion For U.S. To Close Gitmo”

kerwin_brown on May 19th, 2006 6:47 pm

The United States has been bowing to the U.N. for a long while. The ACLU is just a part of the U.N. as they are an associated NGO. The current favoritism by the establishment for open border and granting citizenship to illegal invaders is a paraphrase of the U.N.’s talking points on the subject.