Loosing terrorists on American soil

Dear God, the sick freaks at the Justice Department and White House are again considering loosing the insane super-criminals at Guantanamo in the United States. Moving them from their island fortress, replete with force fields and a special kind of chain link fence, to the woefully inadequate American prison system, with their bars and concrete that a super-powered terrorist could rip through in a second. I thought we already went through this: it's a bad idea....because.

The administration is considering whether to transfer some detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a facility in the United States that would contain courtrooms to hold federal criminal trials and military commissions to prosecute terrorism suspects, administration officials said Sunday.

The maximum-security facility would be jointly run by the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security, with each assuming responsibility for different sets of inmates. Officials said such a facility could also house prisoners held in indefinite detention and those cleared for release but who have no country willing to accept them. Those convicted in federal court or military commissions could serve their terms there.

Two things I like about this idea. One: the presence of a courtroom. While lawyers and international observers telling the terrorists that their detainment is a travesty of justice surely was able to help them understand just how large a farce their imprisonment is, the presence of a courtroom on-site and unused would really drive that point home more symbolically. Maybe the addition of the Constitution or international treaty under glass with a sign that said "do not obey under any circumstances" would help. Two: letting 3 separate government departments run it. When something goes wrong or there's another international outcry they can all comically point at each other and fight like the Three Stooges. Only this time they'll be hitting each other with law books instead of hammers and raking the concept of justice over each others heads, like a saw.

Still though, at least this kicks up another round of shame and awkward eye contact with foreigners. At the very least it'll start another round of those hilarious arguments where people try to claim, with a straight face, that Federal Supermax prisons, military prisons, and regular prisons are somehow unequal to the task of holding prisoners as a chain link fence and a cinder-block row house. If it's good enough for Americans, it's good enough for the terrorists......and people we've grabbed, imprisoned, and claim are terrorists, but are actually unwilling to go into a court and legally say so. But hey, it's not like federal courts have found that in 85% of the cases we have insufficient evidence to even hold these men, now is it?