It's thier own fault

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Ha Ha?

Spoken like true fascists-in-training. They don't hate "us." They hate our government, just like I and any sane human being that opposes hegemony and state terror does. So I suppose I am a terrible person that must be rounded up and sent to the torture chambers at gitmo...guilty only of opposing the rise of fascism in America. Get a clue original poster:

"It makes me sick that some people care more about these terrorists then some of our own citizens or soldiers." Tell me who. Who here advocates our citizens or soldiers be tortured at a detention facility? What a right-wing lunatic you are.

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Dear emvn,
It terrifies me and appalls me to see such hypocritical people writing with such conviction that perhaps these three men brought the unthinkable torture upon themselves. (Re: It’s their own fault- take notice that you’ve misspelled “their”). If you want to look at the so-called “War on Terror” let’s examine the other side as to not suffer from tunnel-vision.
Perhaps we should begin with some basic principles of justice:
1) Fairness
2) Efficiency
3) Clarity
4) Restraint
5) Accountability: namely ensuring the proceedings are answerable through fair investigative and remedial procedures
6) Participation: including public scrutiny
7) Protection: through regulating procedures.
The “War on Terror” is not even a war with guidelines. The American Gestapo-like administration is consistently violating constitutional rights of Americans, spying illegally on Americans and servicing “black sites” all over the world. Western democracies have long upheld the international ban on torture but then people like Alan Dershowitz come along promoting the idea of “torture warrants” to be issued by judges. If you think torture somehow benefits or deters terrorism it’s time to escape your tunnel-vision. The gains of torture are much outweighed by the downfalls and if one is to look at the physics of violence one would understand terrorism cannot be fought with terrorism. For every action there is an equal reaction. George Bush has been able to maintain the moral high-ground in his administration’s operation of black sites through his sabre-rattling claims of defending democracy and human rights.
Let’s now look at the way George Bush violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution through illegal spying on American citizens for the purpose of so-called intelligence gathering to protect against terrorism.
The Secret Court and the Foreign Intelligence Services Act have been more than cooperative in giving Bush all the power he needs to spy on terrorist suspects. The Secret Court has issued more warrants than all federal judges combined, only once denying a warrant. This neoconservative movement has concentrated power in the executive whereby Bush feels he can be above the law when it suits him.
The Bush administration has been caught in illegal spying. Ironically they have been caught red-handed in blatant illegality and they respond by trying to arrest those who exposed the administration’s illegal behaviour. This administration has been and continues to operate with a police-state mentality thinking of themselves as above the law. Notice the parallels of Hitler and his reign with regards to ignoring the law and the courts.
It is a common trend that fear, hysteria and national emergency provide the perfect tools for political power grabs, preying on people in times of vulnerability. It’s shocking however that Bush has not been taken into further investigation, considering his use of black sites around the world to escape US laws on Human Rights, such as Amendments One and Four in the Constitution. The Bush administration is constantly undermining the constitutional rights of Americans by casting off federal laws whilst lying to citizens for nearly four years. It’s interesting to note that Nixon was driven from office because of burglary (which ended up having no consequence), Clinton was driven from office because of adulterous acts which he publicly admitted to, yet Bush has deceived the world; in invading Iraq, detaining (illegally) Americans, torturing detainees and spying on Americans. The standards which Americans deem moral, reasonable and justified are being abused and the social institution which Americans consider their law is being destroyed by the Neoconservatives.
How dare you accuse anyone of supporting the terrorists over American citizens? Remind me now why it would be important to include the events of September 11th in a film that depicts a story of three innocent Britons with NO links to anything related to terrorist networks in the slightest.

What kind of presumptions are these? So, in your opinion, everybody who joins a humanitarian organisation to help civilians, should be considered a potentional terorist (especially if he happens to have arabic features) whose humanitarian motives are probably just a cover? Come on! You can't really be that prejudiced?
These guys were really young when they went there, they had 3 weeks left before the wedding was supposed to take place, therefore they went to Afganistan to help. They said, that they didn't realise that bombing was also happening in the south of the country - they thought it was only in the north, where it had been happening before.
And Geneva Convention is there for a reason - it is one of the mechanisms that keep as away from going back to the Middle ages, it is one of the foundations of democracy. So please, don't immediately accuse everyone who supports these foundations to be terrorist-friendly. I certainly am not, but that doesn't mean that I have to be radical in another direction.
I am sure that there were (and still are!) also some (or even a lot, I don't know) people held in Guantanamo, who were guilty. But the fact is, that a lot of detainees were not, and yet, they didn't have a single chance to prove their innocence. If these guys in the film would in fact be Al Qaida, I doubt that they would agree on making a film out of their story. Myself, I didn't find the film to be a propaganda for Al Qaida at all. The film is there to point out that a thing called human rights, which are one of our most cherished values (a word that also Mr Bush loves to use), is abused in Guantanamo and above all, some innocent people suffer because of this abuse.

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