Weekly+Discussion+3+-+Guantanamo

After reading the Update magazine article “After Guananamo”, do you believe closing the detainee camp there will make America stronger? Was establishing a detention center like Guantanamo necessary in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks? In light of what we just studied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, do you think that the civil liberties of suspected terrorists should be protected under U.S. law? Why or why not?

See this recent goerie.com article on a local lawyer's experience at Guantanamo. http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090222/NEWS02/302229928