re: #42 TheMatrix31

Someone another board posted this in response to someone else asking why we hold Guantanamo in Cuba and not the US…

“Because if we kept them in the U.S. their imprisonment would fall under the Constitution. “

Is that true?

anyone taken prisoner in combat is under the Geneva Convention, and is, AFAIK, held to only it’s standards. to wit, illegal combatants are entitled to nothing more than a battlefield tribunal and a firing squad.

the bullshit that such prisoners are entitled to Constitutional protections is legal sophistry, and flies in the face of years of international practice.