Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The Senatorial Brain Drain

We are sometimes given the opportunity to witness grown people elected by us to the US Senate behave like brainless idiots. Yesterday was a good example of Senatorial Brain Drain in its full glory. The Senate voted 90-6 against funding to close the Guantanamo Detainee Prison because they objected to the prisoners being relocated to prisons in the USA that are used to imprison the most violent criminals anywhere in the world. Now if I am correct are not the US prisons, such as Alcatraz and other equally isolated prisons, used to incarcerate serial killers, murderers including mass murderers, domestic terrorists, presidential assassins, weapon smugglers, mailbox bombers, traitors, and death row inmates?

Well the US Senate seems to think that those imprisoned at Guantanamo are too dangerous to be imprisoned with the likes of those included in the latter list. If this is not the epitome of total brain drain it must be very close. We should all be overjoyed to have Senators who are so intelligent that they want to segregate the most violent prisoners currently in Federal penitentiaries from the possible terrorists in Guantanamo. Perhaps we should send all viscous prisoners now in US prisons to Guantanamo and allow mass mayhem to settle the problem.

Now that our esteemed Senate is emboldened to protect us from contaminating violent prisoners with possible foreign terrorist detainees (even if they are kept in solitary confinement) we can all rest assured that our Senators will always be alert and think sensibly about all the issues that confront our nation. We are certainly in good hands even if the brains are missing!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949.
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Part III : Captivity #Section II : Internment of prisoners of war #Chapter I : General observations
ARTICLE 22
Prisoners of war may be interned only in premises located on land and affording every guarantee of hygiene and healthfulness. Except in particular cases which are justified by the interest of the prisoners themselves, they shall not be interned in penitentiaries.
Prisoners of war interned in unhealthy areas, or where the climate is injurious for them, shall be removed as soon as possible to a more favourable climate.
The Detaining Power shall assemble prisoners of war in camps or camp compounds according to their nationality, language and customs, provided that such prisoners shall not be separated from prisoners of war belonging to the armed forces with which they were serving at the time of their capture, except with their consent.

I'am not a lawyer (EE), but according to the Geneva convention, penitentiaries may not be OK...

Unknown said...

Thanks for your input.