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Dear Clifford May, (re: Guantanamo not the pit... yada yada yada...) I understand you are extremely knowledgeable about the way things worked in the former Soviet Republic, Northern Ireland and West Africa; welcome to America! Here, we have something called “due process".
Let me make a comment or two about this snippet you wrote as one of the grabbing paragraphs, “The combatants sent to Guantanamo are those believed...". You do carry on, but there is no need for me to. That statement followed your plea to America suggesting that we should not care about these folks; these people are there for a some valid reason. Thanks for letting America take your word for that fact!
I don’t know which day/month/year of U.S. History you missed in middle school, but holy cow, you missed a headfull. I will refrain from reciting the Bill of Rights at this point, instead, consider the fact that nothing unites the left and the right more than denying one of basic rights, including “due process". Your attempt at defending Guantanamo, does nothing except align hippies with the NRA, and that is very hard to do.
Conservatives, Liberals and Libertarians see this the same - something is very, very, very wrong. The revolution is nigh and the revered Clifford May is defending the indefensible.
(Apologies to certain Libertarians who have held this exact view for quite some time. Consider me with you.)
Kenneth Hodson
Denver

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