"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Right to a Guilty Verdict
?We already knew that Obama plans to keep 90 or so of the 229 men who remain at the Guantanamo Bay prison, which he has promised to close by January, in ?prolonged detention? without trial. In his May speech the president said these prisoners ?cannot be prosecuted? because there is not enough admissible evidence against them yet cannot be released because they ?pose a clear danger to the American people.?"
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