Guantanamo Bay prisoners

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The L.A Times reports today that the Penatgon plans to release "nearly a third" of its detainees in Guantanamo Bay. So here's a summary of the math. There are about 490 detainees there. Only 10 have been charged. None has been charged with a capital offense according to the Times.

According to Donklephant.com the history of this for the past 4 years is as follows:

"390 prisoners released without charge;
34 or so charged with various crimes;
300 or so continuing to be held without charge or any effective way to challenge their imprisonment.

So we hold 750 people for years so that we can eventually charge fewer than 40. That works out to a false-imprisonment rate of about 95 percent."

I will be posting again soon. I am hopeful this is educational, and infuriating enough for you to take action and get involved in researching candidates running in the elections in November. We can't "Stay the Course" any more. In the next posting, I will outline the Treaties we signed in Geneva, called the Geneva Convention. I will show what we signed and agreed to, and let you be the judge of whether we have lived up to this document we signed so proudly in 1949, after the end of the WWII. Obviously, you can read into my comments that I don't believe we have lived up to the letter of the law but definitely not the spirit of it. Stay tuned!