We elect them. They are us.

Are you claiming that the US is not a democracy?

> See what gross inconsistency is tolerated. I have heard some of my townsmen say, “I should like to have them order me out to help put down an insurrection of the slaves, or to march to Mexico;—see if I would go”; and yet these very men have each, directly by their allegiance, and so indirectly, at least, by their money, furnished a substitute. The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war; is applauded by those whose own act and authority he disregards and sets at naught; as if the state were penitent to that degree that it differed one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a moment. Thus, under the name of Order and Civil Government, we are all made at last to pay homage to and support our own meanness. After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made.

-- Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" (1849)

If you're saying that Guantanamo is remotely useful for Canada's national security and economy please don't operate heavy machinery. Do not put your war crimes on us.

If they actually was war prisoners US wouldn't have been able to treat them like this. The 'enemy combatant' swindle made it possible to treat them with no rights.

That's an awful lot of legal conclusions. Are you licensed to practice law? What's the case law that forms the basis of your analysis?

> One of the former detainees who received compensation, Binyam Mohamed, claims Britain knew he had been sent by the U.S. security agency to Morocco where his genitals were sliced with a scalpel during interrogation.