If these people are "the worst of the worst" then we already have infrastructure to deal with that. Gitmo is for extrajudicial punishment that should have been outlawed decades ago. "Thanks Obama"
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Obama did not put anyone in gitmo
Obama had a campaign promise to close Gitmo and then didn't. It was made difficult by Republicans, but it was still just sort of abandoned because it would have cost political capital and they didn't want to have that fight.
He actually tried though. Don't come for me on the details, I don't remember
Congress.
But he did take it from a couple hundred prisoners down to about 50. Of those 50, something like 20 were cleared for release, and the remaining 30 were going to trial for various terrorism charges (helping plan 9/11, for example).
Thats about the end of what I remember though.
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Can they even hold that many?
Theoretically? Well Manhattan has a population density of about 73,000 people per square mile so it's certainly possible to safely provide for 30,000 people in the space of Guantanamo Bay.
In practice? There's no way they'll be doing anything like that, and the cruelty is the point.
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Not in any safe manner. Safe for the assholes running the show that is.
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Does anyone know how big is Guantanamo? It takes a lot of space to imprison 30,000 “worst of the worst” children and other people, along with guards and supplies to keep all of them alive.
Aside from the other glaring problems with this idea, is this even physically plausible?
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Just a random selection of 30,000 people or for an actual reason?
Oh I see what he is doing here, screw over 30.000 people, then send them over to their biggest enemies to learn a how to take revenge. America collapse soeedrun