NationStates Jolt Archive

Couldn't find anything other posts on this so here it is. Yesterday some freed Guantanamo detainees arrived back in the UK. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7152117.stm) They were residents of the UK but not citizens. They were released through British government pressure (Previously the government declined to intervene as they weren't citizens). They were detained on arrival and two of them might be extradited to Spain (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7153146.stm) on terror charges (Looking at the picture there, it seems Santa Claus has indeed come to town).

I think this was a mistake. If they were citizens then fair enough, but I think it's a bad precedent when a government starts applying diplomatic protection to non-citizens. A government only owes this protection to its own citizens. I don't see how the situation in Guantanamo Bay is our problem. Thoughts?

I don't see what the problem is: a government helps people getting out of a prison where there is, most likely, use of torture to extract information out of prisoners. What is your problem with it?

I BEFRIEND CHESTNUTS;13308741']A government only owes this protection to its own citizens. I don't see how the situation in Guantanamo Bay is our problem. Thoughts?

they are our prisoners though, we gave them to the US back when global war seemed imminent but now we have changed our minds and realized that even though its on American soil we still get bad press

also odds are they are innocent no?