Over-thinking Gitmo

I had an exchange over the weekend on another blog, and the subject of Guantanamo came up. Here’s what was offered to us:

As to Guantanamo – I have always opposed its continued functioning, but as I stated before, I don’t know how to close it. Look at a list of current detainees – most of them cannot legally or morally be transferred to their home countries, as their home countries are known to practice torture or lack a reliable court system or simply don’t want them. We could maybe send back a Kenyan and a couple Kuwaitis, but the rest of them really have little hope of going home and being treated humanely or getting a fair trial (though the Afghan detainees could legally be held as POWs by the government of Afghanistan). And I doubt their lives would be improved by moving to US prisons, even if the states running those prisons could be persuaded to take them.

There are many errors and false assumptions in that statement – it’s pretty damned naive. Actually, it’s adorable! But it did force me to think a little harder about what is going on at Gitmo. I’ve taken it for granted that they were holding prisoners posing little real danger to anyone as an element of the PSYOP aspect of 9/11, our permanent state-of-fear regime.

But it is troublesome, as they are holding some of those poor schmucks for over a decade now. It costs untold millions of dollars to house, feed and abuse them, and since the world is watching, they must at times give the appearance of good behavior in their treatment. True, there could be abuse and torture whenever the Red Cross is not looking, which is most of the time. But there must be more to it than that. Under normal circumstances, these men would simply have been killed on the spot rather than detained indefinitely. There is no force of law in sub-radar U.S. military aggression. Capturing and holding these men at great expense must serve some other end.

In my response on that blog (Intelligent Discontent, Entirely mainstream candidate Derek Skees endorses radical nullification doctrine), I used the phrase “rolling stock”, as in prisoners moving in and out, and came to suspect that the permanent inmates there might be mere window ornaments. If Guantanamo is a a torture facility, do the real “clientele” come and go through the back door? And if an inmate is released, is it to act in service of US black ops?

Example: Sufyan bin Qumu, accused as part of the group that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, was a former inmate. The whole Libyan 9/11/12 attack, coupled with the Innocence of Muslims film of suspicious origin, smacks of a covert PSYOP, the date being the key indicator. Sufyan bin Qumu as a double agent makes as much sense as his reentry into “terrorist” activities after release. If indeed the attack on the Libyan consulate was another false flag attack, then bin Qumu’s recent graduation from Gitmo would fit perfectly. He would be a double agent and agent provocateur, and for US black ops, that would be SOP.

The facility at Guantanamo makes some sense from this standpoint: It is beyond the reach of American law, and eliminates the need to use countries like Poland, Afghanistan, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Armenia, Georgia, Latvia, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan and on and on for secret torture facilities. (The defect in this logic is that they have used those countries anyway.) Nonetheless, if the permanent inmate population at Gitmo is mere window dressing, then it would behoove us to learn the true purpose of the facility.

This much I know: They are doing far more than flushing a few Quran’s. Our whole system of law and accountability has been flushed as well.
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Maybe I am over-thinking Gitmo. It is not a replacement facility, but merely part of a world-wide system of secret torture facilities, and like Abu Ghraib one that we happen to know about. Perhaps by allowing us to focus on Gitmo we can exercise our righteous indignation without affecting the world-wide system. For civilized people then, it would be a magnet for release of angst, and for fascists a magnet for release of hatred of Muslims, the Jews du jour of our age.
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Still over-thinking. Perhaps they just have Gitmo because itis convenient to have a torture facility nearby rather than carting victims all over the world.
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Then again, the executive now has the right to disappear American citizens. Perhaps Gitmo is a set aside as a future place for punishment of Americans guilty of thoughtcrime, in which case I might be headed there. Yikes! Gitmo good! Terrists bad! I got my mind right! Honest! I got my mind right!
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