Shut Down Gitmo! Just, um, because it's BAD!
I need a bumper sticker saying, "Gitmo don't torture terrorists, guards do."
Seriously ... why shut down a facility EVEN IF systematic torture is happening there? Then you need to pay a ton more taxpayer money to get a new facility, and for what? If you have not changed the (supposed) torture policy, or gotten rid of the perpetrators, then nothing has substantially changed. And if you do, then there's no reason to shut it down.
And that's assuming there actually is systematic torture going on, which is something no one's come close to actually showing, but just for the sake of argument assming there is: it's still a stupid idea.
Seriously ... why shut down a facility EVEN IF systematic torture is happening there? Then you need to pay a ton more taxpayer money to get a new facility, and for what? If you have not changed the (supposed) torture policy, or gotten rid of the perpetrators, then nothing has substantially changed. And if you do, then there's no reason to shut it down.
And that's assuming there actually is systematic torture going on, which is something no one's come close to actually showing, but just for the sake of argument assming there is: it's still a stupid idea.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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