Three cheers for freedom! Cue the five-year anniversary of 9/11 and pull on the heartstrings of the nation! Play to everyones worst fears and emotions, but remember to time it perfectly with the anniversary of a national tragedy:

Go figure. We (and I use this term very, very loosely) have been holding (at least 14) prisoners incommunicado in secret prisons for some time – and now, in order “to provide a measure of justice for relatives of the nearly 3,000 people who died in the [9/11] attacks,” 14 of them are being transferred from double-secret prisons in far-flung locales, to top-secret prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

How long can we reasonably continune this charade – of holding alleged criminals and terrorists without any intention of ever granting them a right to defend themselves? Look, I’m not a sympathizer – I’m willing to concede that most of them are probably guilty of whatever they might someday be accused of, the fate of these people will not change. If we know with any degree of certainty that these people were in fact, masterminds of potential terror attacks against the US or US interests abroad, I can’t imagine it would be all to difficult to throw together some sort of kangaroo-court and hammer out some hasty convictions.

Unless of course, we don’t have any evidence to support the allegations.

But assuming they’re all guilty, nobody’s fate will change. But what if one of them isn’t? If they’re guilty, or stand accused, and we have evidence – send them to trial, give them a defense, and let’s end this nonsense once and for all. Honestly, I can’t figure out what precisely, is so difficult about trying known terrorists.

Unless of course, they’re not known terrorists.

In which case, each day that passes without charges being brought is the extension of a terrible injustice.