Guantanamo Detainees Offered Classes, Movies in Push to Stem Frustration

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Seeking to ease conditions for angry and frustrated detainees, the commander of Guantanamo's prison camps has instituted language classes and a literacy program, plans humanities courses and wants to open communal areas for men now held in isolation 22 hours a day.

...Zachary Katznelson, an attorney representing detainees, said he welcomes planned changes.

"Right now the men in Camp 6 sit in steel boxes without windows for at least 22 hours a day," he said. "They have no mental stimulation, nothing to do.

"But the real issue remains the fact that the men are being held without charge or trial. English lessons do not equal a return to American values like due process. It's just putting lipstick on a pig."

Due process. Hmm. You just might have something there, Zach.

Okay you've got me convinced. Let's do what we have always done with enemy combatants who refuse to follow instructions.

Firing squad at dawn. See you there, Zach. Oh, and be good enough to bring coffee, enough for everyone. I'll pitch in with some crullers and the ammo.

And before the emails start a'comin', yes; I'd do the shooting without batting an eye so don't ask.