factbat.com

The Obama administration appears to be seeking shelter from the consternation of (edit) portions of the public, and select Republican officials likely sympathetic toward the beleaugered Bush regime, concerning the administration's initial stance on the realease of Guantanamo Bay detainees, and the detainees' rights under the United States Constitution, as they backpedal and attempt to make ammends by throwing a bone to all involved ending the use of the term "enemy combatant".

However, it must be fully understood that the question is not whether these people are enemy combatants, but whether there is any proof of such. If there is no direct evidence, nor relative exculpatory (er...I mean inculpatory) facts which deliver a just and reasonable nature demanding that they be held on probable cause, then they must be freed.

No matter what the United States Military or Government may desire, the fact is that the United Sates Constitution and Geneva Convention clearly make provisions under peace and wartime conditions which prevent any abusive activities that may arise from the possible extremities of mortal combat. However, the main reasoning’s are reserved to matters of treason and misfeasance, and were never meant to encompass the new and morose theatre of civilian terrorism, which is still largely being defined. Furthermore, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to maintain a firm grasp on the intrinsic factors and exacerbations which contribute to the creation and inflammation of this new and nefarious realm of “combat“.

Moreover, the United States is ultimately required to, at all times, maintain its engendered constitutional conformity’s which demand all people are created equal and entitled to due process of law. The fact that the U.S. Constitution allows for the suspension of Habeas Corpus merely creates a conspicuous and well defined stage for precipitous engagement and trial, but does not in any way allow for suspension of basic human rights.

Under any laws (of a just nation), United States or otherwise, these people are being abused and inhumanely treated, and there is no reasonable warrant for detaining them. Fear of the possibility of future crimes or infractions is not now, nor has ever been, reason enough to prevent the release of any individual that has not first been convicted of the offenses alleged.

While this nation may not be entirely comfortable with releasing all of these individuals, this is not an issue of comfort, and none are privy to the thoughts and desires of those accused, as certainly neither are those who are detaining them. Therefore, these officials, not being mind readers, or at the very least able to produce direct evidence of the guilt of those detained, demands that there truly is no argument as to the proper and just disposition in these cases. They must be released in the interest of justice, or this nation risks the complete degradation of everything it is founded upon, and has so courageously, for many decades, fought to sustain.