Something in their shorts

January 27, 2009 in Political Animals | 2 comments

Over at Firedoglake, Attaturk points out that the US held hundreds of thousands of Axis POWs on US soil during WWII. Yet the terror monkeys of the far right are having the mother of all conniption fits at the though of a few hundred detainees (most of whom were not, contrary to the popular myth, captured on the battlefield) being transferred to the mainland from Guantanamo.

The ability of some Americans to have no problem with sweeping folks up and holding them without charges or trial in perpetuity while simultaneously not wanting them to be held at a nearby maximum security prison is, as always, astounding. Why take the smallest modicum of responsibility when you can shit your pants instead?

  1. Ron Russell on February 1, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    My grandfather worked at an army camp in southwest Mississippi during WWII (Camp VanDorn) , they housed a large number of german pow’s there. Many of the prisoners worked in the machine shop with my grandfather under little supervision. He use to remark to me that they were good and hard working people. He got many letters from some of the former pow’s for years after the war ended. I’m afraid, the prisoners at GITO would not fit into the same catagory as those German pow’s. Not a good comparsion, but nice try. These people simply hate us, the Germans did not. Buddy, there is a difference.

  2. meatbrain on February 1, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    Ron, is it your belief that if prisoners are transferred from Guantanamo to the mainland, their ‘hate’ will somehow magically enable them to escape?