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> most people accept that out of 8,000,000,000 people, there are 35 that need to sent to a facility like Guantanamo.

Most people do not accept that most Guantánamo detainees have been/are being held without ever being charged or tried. The terrorist in this case is the US as harsh as that sounds.


> Most people do not accept that most Guantánamo detainees have been/are being held without ever being charged or tried.

People are right not to accept that because it isn't true. Of the 35 Guantanamo Bay detainees, 3 are being held without charge. https://www.closeguantanamo.org/Prisoners


The goal of Guantanamo Bay was to try to evade the Constitution. It failed, however: SCOTUS still ruled that non-US citizens held by the US in non-US territory still retained certain constitutional rights with regards to criminal trials.


I don't think most people are fascist, at least not to this extent.


This could be a quote about gulags or death camps. What's "necessary" is subjective, but at least we've got a fairly universal basis for "evil", as consolation.


You would think differently if you were one of these 35 people.


>The goal is simply isolation to prevent recidivism.

Simply? The goals is to have a prison outside of the US where the US (i think mainly CIA) can do things that it cannot when in the US. The goal is clearly to subvert the "rules based order" they so vocally claim to uphold.


> It’s a necessary evil.

No it's not. As the person you responded to pointed out it's basically torture when you're preventing suicide. If someone is such a permanent problem, execution and suicide are obviously options, but there are also many prisons that provide the isolation you want without being as bad. There's no excuse and it's far from "needed."


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Didn’t expect to read someone using slurs on hacker news either




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