What an absurd question to pose in response to the quoted post! You make a preposterous assumption thereby.
If they are not 'enemies of the state', and not political prisoners, then they must be under arrest as criminals. Criminals stand trial and proof is provided of guilt.
You have results of such trials and can tell us which are guilty and deserve capital punishment?
In other words, how do you 'know' guilt?
*sigh* Not sure how a thread on the universe and a Creator turned into a debate about detainees at Gitmo... but they ARE enemies of the state. They are not under arrest as criminals.. .we cannot arrest people on foreign soil where we have no legal jurisdiction. They are not citizens of our country and are not subject to our laws or constitutional liberties. What the **** is wrong with you? Do you think we can just go off to some other country and arrest a citizen there, bring them to America and charge them with a crime here for breaking our laws?
These are people captured on the fields of battle in the middle east. The hard cold truth is, any other country would have killed them instead of capturing them... hell, WE would have killed them 30 years ago! You would have never heard about them... they would have simply been casualties of war that everyone forgot about the next week. But our "compassionate conservative" president decided not to go that route and instead, detain them at Gitmo until we can sort out what to do with them. We should've killed them... bullets to the head is what should have happened.