Guantanamo Bay
Posted in Events dear boy. Events, Politics at 18:17 on 8 December 2008
I heard on the news today that some of the prisoners at Guantanamo want to plead guilty to the September 11th murders at the World Trade Centre.
Two things:-
1. They were tortured. Can a confession after torture ever be relied upon?
2. They seem to wish to be martyrs. Now; they do face the death penalty if found guilty so martyrdom (as they see it) would inevitably follow a guilty verdict.
In that case it would be much, much better to deny them the death they seek (even if they are truly guilty) otherwise you are merely playing into their hands. Keep them alive and in jail for life, and thereby deny them the satisfaction of their desires. This would have the added benefit of not giving others of their like any more pretexts than they already claim for themselves for behaving the way they do.
