Guantanamo Likes Fox News and Tribunals; SCOTUS Not So Much

So, two big stories in the news from last week regarding everyone's favorite prison camp! First off, right after those three prisoners killed themselves it was written off as some sort of political statement--that these men really were only making a play for the airwaves and to make the US look bad.

Yeah, I'm sure it had nothing to do with them being stuck in a prison in the middle of nowhere without access to family, friends or a LAWYER. Yeah, it's political. Depression had NOTHING to do with it! It's ONLY POLITICAL!! STOP THINKING OF THESE PRISONERS AS HUMAN BEINGS!

They're just clever little creatures that are trying to kill us and make us look bad in the meantime.

However, they did succeed in killing themselves and it did hit the news--though not before the US Mil banned all media from the island... except for one news source, you guessed it: Fox News.

The following comes to us from [http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/23/fox-gitmo|a June 23, 2006 post] at ThinkProgress.Org:

This morning, Fox News analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano described how the Defense Department had personally invited him on a trip to Guantanamo on Wednesday:

NAPOLITANO: I was doing my radio show with Brian Kilmeade the other day and I get an email from the Defense Department saying, “We have an extra seat on a flight down to Guantanamo, would you like to come?” So, of course, I cleared it all — I cleared it here with our superiors. …

HOST: What’d you see?

NAPOLITANO: Well, we saw everything. … We saw all six camps. … We had FBI interviews, I actually sat down and examined the evidence they’re going to use at trial with prosecutors. It was very detailed.

HOST: That was some kind of access.

NAPOLITANO: It was. It was great.

Napolitano offered his fair and balanced review of conditions at the prison: among other glowing reviews, he claimed it is “now gentle, almost child-like the way they treat the detainees.”

In other Gitmonews, the Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS) ruled that the military tribunals the USG and US Mil are using to convict Gitmo prisoners are against the Geneva Conventions which we can then assume means they are therefore unConstitutional.

This is a clear win for the forces of good because it means human beings might actually get their rights back from the unGodly USG and US Mil.

After all, only God gives us rights, right? So if our rights are taken away by someone, that makes that someone unGodly, right?

RIGHT!

So why is everyone on the Right so "Right On!" about Gitmo prisoners not having rights?

I thought the Right was all Godly and stuff.

Maybe it's the 3rd Reich I'm thinking of. Or not. I get those two mixed up a lot these days. Preemptive wars, prison camps, I think you can understand... right?

Read more about the Gitmo/SCOTUS ruling in [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5129904.stm|an article] at http://News.BBC.co.uk.