Former MN Guard Member Suspected Terrorist

30 Reader Comments

We can neither confirm nor deny that he is being tortured in Gitmo. Now, if you don’t mind, we have to go do some “assertive interviews” of an “unnamed suspected terrorist” somewhere in the Carribean.

Is Tbartel also Sanpablo? Or did Sanpablo sign this post as TBartel?

I am also not bothered.

kcmarshall Feb 8 2006
2:22 pm

Bothered? I thought that everybody knew that Europa has always been at war with Oceana.

not one bit!!!

hey, they wouldn’t hold an american citizen in secret custody if he didn’t have something to hide, right?

right?

I think there should be a new category for all sanpablo posts: wtf?

Not bothered by this at all. It’s the government that has to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity… not we the people.

Judging from the illustration in TFA, he’s also some sort of giant!!!!

Mpls Simpleton Feb 8 2006
3:05 pm

Or they use rabbit fencing for the cell

It was Sanpablo’s post. I am not sanpablo. I just added the little bit of comment because sanpablo only offered the link without any explanation.

It was Sanpablo’s post. I am not sanpablo.

That’s exactly what sanpablo would say!

I’m more concerned that “Non-citizens can serve in the Guard as long as they obtain citizenship within eight years of joining, Purvis said.”

What happens if they don’t?

If I were going to adopt a name starting with San, I think I’d have to go with Sancho Panza.

hopped up on goofballs Feb 8 2006
3:48 pm

why would he need a lawyer, or need to be formally charged with anything–indeed, why would the constitution even apply to him–if he weren’t obviously guilty?

duh! doesn’t anyone watch “24″ around here?!

I am Sancho. Are you Sancho? No you are not. Neither is Scott Baio Sancho. Frank Gifford is not Sancho. But I…

Kevin from Minneapolis Feb 8 2006
4:30 pm

I don’t recall Daniel Pearl or Jill Carol getting access to a lawyer, and as far as we know all they did was be western, so I’m fine with it. I’m actually more pissed that things like this keep showing up in the news. Keep a secret people!

kevin, i guess i thought that what with our constitution, our history and our basic respect for democracy, we were actually somehow better than the terrorists…

Jack Bauer Feb 8 2006
4:52 pm

Speak for yourself, gerg.

You’re not the real Jack Bauer… This is what the real Jack Bauer would have said:

“SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, GERG!!!! I’M IN A HELICOPTER!!!!”

Spartacus Feb 8 2006
5:37 pm

I don’t know who the real San Pablo is, but if I did I’d certainly let you all know.

Spartacus Feb 8 2006
5:39 pm

I’m Spartacus, by the way.

M Lucinius Crassus Feb 8 2006
5:51 pm

And I’m the guy who got off watching you and Tony Curtis roll in the dirt.

Is it just me, or has this thread gone way off the rails? Although it’s true that Crassus and W do have some things in common–just think of Gitmo as a modern day Appian Way and Crassus as Julius Caesar’s Dick Cheney.

Sometimes I think I may have wandered into one of those Roman era movie circuses where the real fun is watching the chariots crash.

Today we are all San Pablo.

Uncle Sam Feb 8 2006
6:26 pm

Making a list of all those not bothered a bit…you’re on the next plane to Iraq. Your country’s rulers thank you.

I’ve been off the rails all day after seeing the Vanity Fair Scarlett Johansson foldout.

Kevin from Minneapolis Feb 8 2006
7:57 pm

I don’t have a ruler, sorry. You must be talking about some other country.

“Bothered? I thought that everybody knew that Europa has always been at war with Oceana.”

nice.