(Jake Tapper) The Obama administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to reject a request for a hearing from 17 Chinese Muslims currently being held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, arguing they have no right to come to America despite a district judge's orders last Fall that they immediately be brought to the U.S. and released.
"Petitioners are free to return to their home country, but they understandably do not wish to do so, because they fear inhumane treatment there," reads the filing, signed by US Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Assistant Attorney General Tony West, and other Justice Department officials. "Petitioners are also free to go to any other country that is willing to accept them."
Many European countries are waiting for the US to accept the Uighurs before they agree to accept any more detainees from Guantanamo, but there is strong resistance from Congress, which recently voted to keep any detainees out of the US -- even out of US prisons.
But not to worry -- the Obama administration says the Uighurs' detention isn't so bad, considering.(Emphasis mine) "In contrast to individuals currently detained as enemies under the laws of war, petitioners are being housed under relatively unrestrictive conditions, given the status of Guantanamo Bay as a United States military base," Kagan writes, saying they are "in special communal housing with access to all areas of their camp, including an outdoor recreation space and picnic area." They "sleep in an air-conditioned bunk house and have the use of an activity room equipped with various recreational items, including a television with VCR and DVD players, a stereo system, and sports equipment."
Sounds like Limbaugh was right when he called it Club Gitmo!
Obama is SUCH a con man. I wouldn't vote for him in a million years. However, people who voted for him believed his promises to end torture, stop the practice of indefinite detention. People, for good reason, were very concerned about the fascism of Bush/Cheney (Patriot Act, etc., etc.). But, as we all see, Obama is just another tool of the New World Order just like Bush/Cheney were. Meanwhile, the infrastructure of the NWO police state grows in the USA - and Obama tries to sell the American people on totalitarianism and fascism - with him as the dictator - as the NWO hopes the USA "bites" the bait of Obama's "pretty face" and "eloquence". That NWO apple is rotten to the core.
ReplyDeletecon man indeed.
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