Guantanamo Bay, already one of the most disturbing aspects of the US military, might be getting a whole lot worse:
THE US has floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a death camp, with its own death row and execution chamber.
Prisoners would be tried, convicted and executed without leaving its boundaries, without a jury and without right of appeal, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported yesterday.
The plans were revealed by Major-General Geoffrey Miller, who is in charge of 680 suspects from 43 countries, including two Australians.
The suspects have been held at Camp Delta on Cuba without charge for 18 months.
The ever-growing parallels between some of the US’s current policies and another historical superpower keep getting freakier. We’re not quite there yet, and I hope we don’t reach that point, but there are enough similarities to worry me at times.
(via Tom Tomorrow)