The House of Representatives have passed a law that would get prisoners now residing in Guantanamo Bay to be brought to the mainland and be tried by mainland courts. Now it is just the Senate left to pass this bill. Watch out for the scare tactics that are about to be launched!

I really hope that America would not be agitated by this news. I have always stated that we need to take the terrorists to our courts and try them. The terrorists should not be just locked up and be left in Guantanamo Bay. They should be paying for their crimes in our courts.

Furthermore, there are a lot of Guantanamo Bay inmates that are “innocent”. When these “innocent” people mix around with the actual terrorists like Abu Zubayda, there is a high chance that they themselves be influenced by the ideologies of Al Qaeda and the Taliban, like how many crime connections are made in prison. The chances of this would be increased, with the lack of habeas corpus and the presence of “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” also known as torture being done to some inmates.

I think that there should be an additional clause with regard to these terrorists. I think that there should be no such thing as a life sentence for them. Even in the most liberal of states, the death penalty should be applied for people that are hellbent to kill us. The reason is that there have been terrorists in other countries that would hold up our citizens as hostage in exchange for these terrorists sitting in jail if they could.

If we execute them for the crimes that they have committed in our country, there would not be such thing. I know that there would be readers that think that I am watching too many movies and that these plots are all fictional. I would like to let them know that Israel still has a soldier in captivity and she just exchanged many Palestinian prisoners for just mere news that the soldier is alive.

I would also like to retort to some claims that this is would be bad for national security. Firstly, having these people on our mainland would not harm us. Though I have never been to a supermax security prison, I think that our country is decent enough not to allow terrorists to escape it. Its track record on it is good too. Also, I think a dead terrorist is a good terrorist, so lets start killing them!

Guantanamo Bay would not stop the next 9/11, it could create the next one. It is a selling point in recruiting terror suspects. We have broken every thing that is American stands for. We are the beacon of freedom, not the ones that take away the freedom of others based on our fears. If we have evidence about somebody, lets get them and punish them. Lets not leave them in the hole.

Right now, there are lots of laws that are being stuck in the Senate. For example, House Leader Nancy Pelosi has promised that the House would pass health care reform with a public option, whereas it is as dead as a doornail in the Senate. The Senate is also stalling on the ACES (America Clean Energy and Services) bill which the house passed a long time ago. I think that the Senate should buck up on its productivity.

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