Reply #47: What do you call Gitmo?

[RaleighNCDUer]

It's not a POW camp, because the prisoners are not POWs. They aren't citizens, either, but there is nothing in the constitution that says American laws apply only to American citizens. In fact, it seems pretty clear to me that American laws apply to anyone who comes under American control and jurisdiction. I see Gitmo as a test case to see how far they can push the limits of violating American law.

And yes, given half a chance there are millions in this country who would be foursquare behind putting muslims, or gays, or liberals or abortionists into camps. What would it take?

Take avian flu, for example. It jumps to easy transmissibility. Martial law is declared to quarantine affected populations. Someone claims that it is being deliberately spread by Muslim terrorists. The soldiers, who are already in place, go and pull all the Muslims out of the quarantined areas, and confine them under high-security quarantine camps in Utah.

With a thousand people a day dying from the flu, do you think the general populace is going to object? And if they happen to get a few gays or liberals in the mix, do you think they'd notice?

Is it far-fetched? Yes. But, in 1934, so was Treblinka.