"The Whatevers"
Supreme Court is trying to decide what to do with Guantanamo and the Muslim folks who’ve been vacationing there for the past six years courtesy of the Bush Administration.
According to the President they aren’t considered to be POW’s because then they would have rights under the Geneva Convention and we might have violated those rights. The Iraq and Afghan Wars where we caught most of them really aren't wars either for this particular purpose or else they would be POW's. They are wars only when we need more funding.
I guess if they are not POW's, or soldiers or what.....I guess we'll call them "The Whatevers".
So now the question is.....do these "Whatevers" have any legal rights at all or can we keep them till they die?.....at which point we'll all just forget about this. And of course the answer is going to have all kinds of ramifications no matter which way the court decides it.
If they have rights it is going to be hard to argue that they have been dealt with fairly over the past six years unless you consider being held in secret, in solitary confinement, without an attorney and without charges, "due process". And they haven't been tortured either because the vice-President has declared that anything we have done to the "Whatevers" to make them talk isn't torture but he can't tell you what we've done. That's a secret. He says whatever we've done it is to protect us . .........from whom he didn't say.
And on the other hand, if the court finds these "Whatevers" don”t have any rights then I have to start worrying about my own.
