Thursday, March 11, 2004

Guantanamo
I agree with bongo vongo. I hope the five returnees will shed some light the social experimentation in Guantanamo bay. It is especially interesting to hear this morning that lawyers for the returnees are looking for compensation especially in the current context of 'compensation culture' being highly lauded. I wonder what level of compensation these guys get for the torture that they experienced at the hands of the Americans.. Although it seems unlikely that US state government can be held liable for any losses that may arise, as they have successfully 'offshored' the justice system for the duration of the non-trail, of the remaining 'enemy combatants'.. Cunning huh? It seems that the US State government has learned some good lessons about ambiguity from the other legal no mans-land, namely export processing zones. Perhaps camp delta should be seen as an unsavoury hybrid response to global terrorism a kind of 'injustice processing zone' whereby citizens are stripped of international rights and exist in a persistent ethical limbo

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