Club Med
--We Will Not Fail, Samira Yamin
~What's this?
~Oh, this is our prototype. RX, uh, Intercontinental, radar-sneaky, multi-warheaded nuclear missile.
~Ah! What does it do?
~Do? Kills the enemy.
~All the enemy?
~Aye, all of them. All their wives, and all their children, and all their
sheep, and all their cattle, and all their cats and dogs. All of them.
All of them gone for good.
~That's horrible.
~Ahh. Well, you see, the advantage is you don't have to see one single
one of them die. You just sit comfortably thousands of miles away from
the battlefield and simply press the button.
~Well, where's the fun in that?
--The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
Resistance fighters resist,
not insurgents
who just want to live
where they live
--"Occupation", fr. Terese Svoboda’s, Weapons Grade
Cuba, Cuba here I come
There's a place in the Caribbean sun
Land of future
Land of dreams
--Cuba Cuba, Ace of Base
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not insurgents
who just want to live
where they live
--"Occupation", fr. Terese Svoboda’s, Weapons Grade
Cuba, Cuba here I come
There's a place in the Caribbean sun
Land of future
Land of dreams
--Cuba Cuba, Ace of Base
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Sad when Monthy Python member Terry Gilliam predicts your future 25 years hence.
We can tell you where Ranger is not this Memorial Day weekend -- Club Med. But for the $900,000/year price tag we pay to house each prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, they might as well be. We will call it, the Club Med Gulag on Gitmo.
If the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Amendments do not disallow the Federal government from keeping these prisoners without due process, then the money pit aspect of the project should. If we will not outsource their upkeep to the Med resorts, then why not the Playboy Mansion in Wisconsin, for surely that would provide a conundrum: a punishment in the form of a living hell, in the form of the gifts of the martyr's afterlife. But surely it would not exceed the 900K per head we currently pay, for 168 prisoners, for 11 years.
It is not bubkas. Especially not for a country under sequester, with crumbling infrastructure like this latest bridge collapse which the NTSB says should be a wake-up call, and an economy to match. Just ask the tens of thousands out of work for years now -- maybe your neighbors, maybe you.
Gitmo is frivolous, making it not just a national stain on our rule of law, but a crying shame.
Labels: club med, due process, gitmo, guantanamo bay
posted by rangeragainstwar at 7:28 PM
2 Comments:
No doubt modern American life is a Monty Python skit.
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2013/05/priorities.html
"If they aren't super accurate, who knows what might happen?
The United States has about 180 B61 gravity nuclear bombs based in Europe. They are the detritus of the cold war, tactical weapons deployed in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey to protect NATO allies from the once-feared Soviet advantage in conventional arms. But the cold war is long over, and no American military commander can conceive of their ever being used. Even so, President Obama has put $537 million in his 2014 budget proposal to upgrade these bombs. When all is said and done, experts say, the cost of the rebuilding program is expected to total around $10 billion — $4 billion more than an earlier projection — and yield an estimated 400 weapons, fitted with new guided tail kits so that they are more reliable and accurate than the current ones.
Nukes. Precision weapons.
by Atrios at 09:23"
I did very much appreciate Medea Benjamin reminding Obama about Gitmo at his recent speech on the PWOT.
Much hilarity ensued and we learned about Free Speech and such as she was hauled out of the room and out of sight.
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European Swallows, with new tail fins, hauling cocoanuts.
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