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Opinion #1
Debater: Stef
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If you destroy freedom, then what are you left protecting?
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Before talks of humiliation of prisioners, before talks of abuse, before eveidence of the USA torturing prisoners. Guantanamo Bay should have been shut down.
A free society is based on many principles, one of the greatest of these is that one is innocent untill proven guilty. To detain anyone without trail or charge can never be construed as right or unbarabaric, whatever threat or perceived threat the country doing so is under.
US politician's talk of protecting freedom at all costs must ring hollow to the hundreds of men illegally held without trail and ritually abused on a daily basis. It's like protecting the freedom of a budgie with a cage, a shameless piece of propaganda talk which the US administration hopes no one will notice.
The day Guantanamo Bay begun holding prisoners without trail or charge America destroyed a large piece of it's status as a free state to the extent to which many Europeans now consider the US now has no right to refer to it'self as protecting freedom.
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Opinion #2
Debater: kiwigirl
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Where would they go?
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I ask, what would the repercussions be of shutting down a facility such as Guantanamo? Where would the (trialed and untrialed) prisoners be held, many of which were potentially involved in terrorist and extremist fundamentalist activities? Yes i agree that the conditions and rights of these people are being violated, but the holding facility at Guantanamo is an important tool in protecting the safety and security of millions of people. It sometimes may be hard to imagine people who are so twisted that they can be the mastermind or even a minion in killing hundreds, or thousands of people, but they exist and i personally would prefer they are kept locked up in the birdcage so that i can fly freely. Give them a fair trial, and stop the torture, but keep the facility open.
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