And they have quietly released ove 60 prisoners. And that means they were innocent of charges or they had no proof or compelling case against them. Since the whole rationale of having GITMO was to have a special prison for the worst of the worst terrorists, GITMO is failing to fulfill its designed mission. If you release over 60 people that have been imprisoned without charges and held for extended periods of time, then were tortured and received harsh treatment, you are most likely creating 60 new insurgents along with their extended families. In short, Guantanamo is creating what it was designed to address.

It is a major world wide issue effecting America's general reputation. We need to close it down and take positive steps to regain a decent reputation in the world again.

Do they teach you in those damned government schools to read INTO what people write or are you just another idiot who thinks that's how to read????

I DIDN'T SAY A DAMNED THING ABOUT THE TORTURE!!!!

Again, where the hell were this boy's parents and why was he even allowed access to a grenade?

And to think that Canadians had such a reputation for being nice people!

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

First of all, he's a child: he doesn't have freedom: he is under the sovereign rule of his parents who were seemingly absent. Second, throwing grenades (to which this BOY should never have had access) is not speech.

But you were quick to assume that there was torture going on when you falsely accused me of defending it.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

It'll never happen as long as Americans keep voting for Democrats and Republicans.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Freedom of speech for him to speak his allegations of torture, where some here seem to want to gag him. The torture is alleged, and I ahve recognised this at least twice, but this boy is innocent of any crime until proven guilty, I really have a problem with people assuming guilt. There are not many threads here talking of the crimes of the taliban for example because it's bleeding obvious that they are a horrible inhumane group, same with Al-qaeda, but America has pretentions of bein the "good guy", and in reality it could be.

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Alleged crime, he has not been proven guilty!!! And yes i read into what people say, only an idiot doesn't.

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No i wasn't, please read my previous posts and you will see I have said multiple times that the torture also is alleged.

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Trust me, I'm a socialist!

There's power in a factory,power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand, there is power in a union.
The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg

I read your previous posts but you accused me of defending torture, which is an assumption that torture was going on.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

So, an act of war (throwing a grenade at soldiers) is now nothing more than a crime?

As for reading into things, that is not how reading is done. You are supposed to read the words, understand what the words mean and understand from the combination of words what the author is saying. Your own interpretations are irrelevant. It doesn't matter what you think the words mean, it only matters what the author meant.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

We should have offered him milk and cookies, and sent him on his way.
Maybe paid for a good lawyer to get the poor lad off...
A co-worker's son lost his best friend in Iraq. They entered a house and a young boy approached them. Unfortunately, his friend didnt see the grenade the kid had behind his back. Blew his buddy up with himself.
Too bad the kid didn't survive; we could have given him some milk and cookies too.