Coming to America

Wednesday on Hardball host Chris Matthews and his guests--Senators Ben Nelson (D) of Nebraska and Saxby Chambliss (R) of Georgia--were discussing what to do with the prisoners currently being held in Guantanamo Bay. Subtopics included sending prisoners back to their country of origin, reports that some prisoners already released have returned to the field of battle, the fanatical commitment to violent jihad shared by prisoners at Gitmo, the adequacy and suitably of American maximum security prisons, the possibly that prisoners transferred stateside would become eligible for greater legal rights, the symbolism of the Guantanamo prison itself, the question of how far into the future the facility at Gitmo should remain open, the possibility that prisoners if brought stateside could operate and recruit Islamic followers from inside the walls of American prisons, the option of executing the prisoners, and the Saudi Arabia rehabilitation program for jihadists.

But unbeknowst to these three blockheads, they had blown their opportunity to show proper respect and credence to one of the most salient and important aspects of the entire subject, of the entire Gitmo dilemma:

Never once, during the entire incoherent, intellectual compost pile of a discussion did anyone mention the fact that a bunch of these "terrorists" are not guilty of anything.

Yessiree dad, did you ever consider that we are detaining a "bunch" of goat farmers and taxicab drivers whose only crime was they were "in the wrong place at the right time?" (Did you ever consider that you bitches in cell block 11!)

This is where a normal rational person shrieks and throws up his arms. Not only does one of the queen bees of the lefty blogger-hood (Digby) believe it's a "fact" that we are holding a "bunch" of harmless innocent hairy people at Gitmo, she can't even bring herself to say the word terrorist, as if there wasn't such a thing in reality, or was an invention of the diabolical Neocons.