Apocalypse Nowish
Yeah yeah, I know, the joke has been made before.
It seems that the U.S. government has made a mistake: 38 of the 558 Guantánamo detainees weren’t, in fact, ‘enemy combatants’. However, the government will not admit the mistake: those 38 people will not be compensated in any way for their incarceration time.
They were held for questioning for years and then let go with not so much as a by-your-leave.
Meanwhile, the other 520 Guantánamo detainees are being tried in secret, military courts where the tribunal listens to secret, classified evidence that the detainees will never see. How could I rebut evidence that I don’t know is being brought against me? How could I refute the truth of something invisible to me? Does the 4th amendment just not matter at all? Habeus corpus you assholes!
Legally, of course, it doesn’t: even if they are citizens, enemy combatants are excused from the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. What is going on now is very legal.
So yeah, the world is ending. And it’s our fault. We let this come about through years of racism, intolerance, ignorance, cruelty, imperialism…
Time to get out my boots.