well, these people, obviously, havent blowed themselves up yet.
lets take this from another point of view.. lets say a country, bazoolinia, see US citizens as a grave threat to its existence and detains 1000 of them on an island. they have no solid evidence on the detainees, but theyd rather keep them behind bars, just in case they go out and do something bad. the world would simply go nuts over this. but hey, if they're stateless 'terrorists', who cares? theyre not even people on their own right.
how would you respond to that? wouldnt there be a public outcry? wouldnt bazoolinia be labeled as a police state who has no respect for justice or human rights?
now, because these people dont belong to a certain country DOES NOT make them any less of a human being. they deserve a fair trial, they ARE innocent until proven guilty and frankly, if these are 'pre-emptive' arrests, you might as well invade their countries and detain all of middle east! oh wait, US did invade iraq didnt it? you CAN NOT capture and detain someone because you 'believe' they might do something bad in the future. if you have solid evidence, fine, if you dont you are violating all basic human rights that are bestowed upon ANY human, whether they have a country or not, or whether US likes or not.
however, i didnt expect anything less from an administration who declared that 'torture is ok as long as the victim has information you need'. i believe the detention process should not be limited to these people or people detained in iraq, any muslim anywhere is apprarently a big threat to US citizens. why not detain them all, and lock them away in some remote island so they can rot in peace?
also, do you really believe only american citizens have the right to a fair trial? that the rest can just rot in their cells until their captors decide that theyve had enough?
also, i dont know if americans trust their own military courts and frankly i dont care either, since these people were NOT captured doing anything illegal on american soil, they dont have to be subject to american military courts! if i was their lawyer, id demand for an international court for these people. but, of course, they dont have lawyers!
now, i am against fundamentalism and terrorism of any kind, maybe even more so than you because there was a time it used to be on the news constantly in my country... terrorists blew up a school, fundamentalists kidnapped businessmen, tortured, cut them up and brutally murdered them. turkish government was criticized for being too harsh with their treatment about the suspected terrorists, even the terrorists they had solid evidence against. years later i read books on these cases, and i saw how wrong we were sometimes. you can see the name of one guy inside the POP CD, fehmi tosun. he was one of those people who was 'lost' at that time. now, i and a lot of us recognize those mistakes, and learn to accept them.
it seems to me neither the bush administration nor their supporters even view these as wrong, which is incredibly shocking for a country who has always inspired the ideals of freedom and human rights. obviously they only apply to american citizens then. pity. i am so disappointed in america at the moment. i know a lot of people all over the world feel the same way. where did it all go wrong?