Feeling Safer

So they’ve released a few more prisoners from Guantanamo because they “no longer represent a threat to the United States.” I’m glad to hear that being as they must have been terrorists and all. Otherwise they wouldn’t have been in there in the first place, right?

So, how do we know they are “no longer a threat?” Did they promise never to be terrorists again, cross their hearts and hope to die? Did they swear on the Koran and the Bible and the TV Guide that they will be good-for-goodness-sake?

Gosh I sure hope they did because otherwise I might be tempted to think that they weren’t terrorists at all — which would mean we are holding innocent people down there for long periods of time without due process.

Surely, we wouldn’t do any such thing, now would we?