Wrap it up and swim in it until I drown

[cyrano]

So... according to this article, Appeals Court Judge Raymond Randolph says "Cuba -- not the United States -- has sovereignty over Guantanamo Bay."
I think that Fidel would be delighted to hear this news. I must be misunderstanding the ruling, because it's being lauded as a victory for the administration. Giving legal control of a US base to one of our longest, least enemific enemies would keep those terrorists from getting into a US court of law, but I'd think that a Cuban court of law would be far more sympathetic to them.

Lots of projects still not getting done, and I threw a couple of others on top of the bin while I was at it. But that TiVo certainly knows who's boss. And I watched GlenGary Glenn Ross again, which made me want to reread Speed the Play while watching Scarface.

EDIT:
Today I got spam with the subject "He So Karamazov". It's like Martin Lawrence read a book or something. I like it.

Comments

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Why do you get all the interesting spam? Mine is *so* mundane!

I believe you are misunderstanding things. Technically Cuba does have sovereignty, always has. They chose in 1896, as part of the treaty to end the Spanish-American War, to lease the land in perpetuity to the U.S. the Castro brothers reject the treaty, so I doubt today's ruling causes them any extra joy.

That lease causes a gray area that the current administration is exploiting to its fullest. (And the court is supporting.) While the U.S. controls the land by means of the lease, the territory itself is still Cuban, thus prisoners have no right to have their cases tried by U.S. civilian courts. Cuban courts won't take the case for the same reason, and the incredible risk of starting an outright war with the U.S. That would be suicide for the Castro brothers.

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Slight error. Read 1898 not 1896.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Maybe that means Cuba can try Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld for violations of the Geneva Conventions and the International Convention Against Torture. We just need to ship them all to Havana to stand trial.

I think Fidel might get out of his hospital bed to play judge in that case.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Aaaaah. So they surrender the power but since they know that the cedee is in no position to actually take said power they actually gain further power. *That* makes sense. I was always far better at technicalities than realpolitik.

[drdorothy.livejournal.com]

OOOooo... I like that idea!

That's actually been going on a while

[luagha.livejournal.com]

Germany for example - a low-level judge put in an indictment for Cheney.

Basically; Bush, Cheney, and the gang aren't going to be doing a whole lot of jet-setting around the globe going to conferences in 2009 because of stuff like that.

Re: That's actually been going on a while

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of hoping they travel and are picked up using extraordinary rendition and flown to Italy or Germany, (tomorrow would work for me.)