There is precedent for bring POW’s here. But they were under the control of the military, and were here for the duration of the war. I also don’t think the ACLU wielded the power they seem hold now. Also, most of the news media was in favor of the US winning that war.

Are they now undocumented combatants?

For example, there is a set rhythmn to high security prisons, and clever criminals can take advantage of such, given that their freedom of movement is restricted. Since they know that, they find other ways to be on the active operant side of things, like making weapons and forcing the COs to search for them. Often they can produce a lockdown on demand simply by starting a fight and taking advantage of the set rhythmn and order of the ‘book’. This is analogous to terrorists using our laws against us, because it is so predictable. It is also analogous to how insurgencies are flexible but the occupation isn’t, by dent of the difference in force. Small groups have less force and thus must use more intelligence and cleverness. Big forces don’t have such need so don’t train for such.
 
It was interesting to see the numerous fights for territory, status, and also the rage riots. Interestingly enough, there is a social dynamic but it’s modified by the exact private institution, the state law, and the little cliches inside the prison. Sometimes they have race wars, for example, other times somebody starts a fight and everybody joins in for ‘solidarity’ against COs.
 
Surprisingly, in one of the documented riots the COs said that they tried very hard to keep upright, otherwise they knew they were going to die if they fell to the floor. I saw a photo of the after-conflict in question, and there was no question that numerous abrasions, lacerations, head cuts, and bleeding was the result. But few if any fatality. The prisoners would, again I would note with interest, immediately stop fighting once a shot was fired, whether at the air or to kill didn’t seem to matter. Once the gun came out, now they knew it was life or death.

What is strange is why they think it wasn’t so before.
 
Prisoners are big on home made weapons. They try to study anatomy to make each blow count. Still, actual footage shows quite clearly that it takes a lot of work to kill a human being. Even with these homemade shivs.
 
None of it compares to what I’ve been given access to. If you are trained exclusively in firearms, then you are disarmed should you be without it. If you are trained in stick or knife fighting, then you are disarmed should you be without your stick or knife.
 
One of the modern stories in America is the danger of getting sent to prison. Thus creating the belief that prison is there to protect society from the criminals, the dangerous people. Anything that happens in prison stays in prison, so to speak, not affecting the real world Not counting why good people should be less dangerous than evil people, in the world of objective martial fact, it is simply the public perception. Lock em up and forget the keys. The Left tries very hard to change this in their favor.

What I noticed about prison is that things are rather inefficient. Even with the best intent in the world, it takes a lot of tries to kill a selected target. TAnd while prisoners are very cunning in how they manipulate circumstances to favor them, few are cold, hard, killers of the serial killer level. Even with a maximum time slot to kill, they try and still fail to when the COs come in. Many need to be enraged or be given an excuse to use violence. Even if that excuse is something they tell themselves at night, in preparation to kill a target in the morning.
They are neurotic in the sense that their sense of self is bundled tightly around something called ‘respect’. Since they have little for themselves, they need it from everybody else. They believe the world owes them something. Like most corrupt and tyrannical nobles of human history, they believe the world owes them luxury and services, rather than the other way around. This gives them the excuse of abusing others, for one thing. Many, because they aren’t happy, try to amuse themselves by making everybody else miserable. While this is uncomfortable in a civil society, it is downright dangerous when you meld it with pathologies such as anger management problems.

Most murderers kill because of emotion. Because they feel that they were wronged. Islam gives them a rational answer for why they were wronged, so to speak. A reason that they can feel comfort knowing other, more influential and power folk, also believe in.
 
A training methodology that focuses on being calm and assertive, rather than aggressive, is the anti thesis of the criminal and pathological mindset. As you can see in Obama, when questioned, he automatically talks about how Bush was wrong for being ‘triumphant’, as if Obama criticizing Bush defends Obama’s tone at West Point. This is how these people think and feel. This is what they are. The reasoning is rather simple. They do these things because they are controlled by their emotions. They flare up in violence because they feel threatened. They attack others because they doubt themselves, they lack self-confidence, they know they are not worth anything. Obama knows he isn’t a good and confident leader so he has to bash Bush to make himself feel better. The attacker is often perceived as the stronger, but that is only an illusion in the monkey dance. If you know the physiological triggers that must be overcome before violence can be done, then you can override them. Essentially, you can train a person to act the same way a serial killer acts, somebody that is a full sociopath, to kill without emotion, simply because they wished to. Not because they felt wronged. Not because they felt threatened. Not because they thought they were going to lose money, status, women, or what not. Only because they decided to. And you can train a person to have the same physiological triggers in the sense of how their mind thinks and how their body works.

People pump themselves up with alcohol, rage, or bitterness as a way to justify violence. To get them past that hurdle. But it is inefficient and not very predictable. Anger tears away the social inhibitions normal socialized human beings have against killing. Even semi-socialized barbarian cultures like prisons have some kind of bar against indiscriminate killing, if it threatens the survival of the group. Thus, before a violent conflict, there is always the lead up. Even if it is done at the dead of night, where no physical interactions play out. (Prisoners use signs and hand gestures to communicate in full lockdown silence). If a person is trained to go right to the doing, the killing, rather than the thinking about the killing and its consequences, that person will have a definitive advantage over somebody still gearing up, in their minds, the excuses needed to commit to violence. In military strategy parlance, it’s getting inside your opponent’s decision loop.
In a sense, criminals commit to violence by thinking about how they can benefit and how they can feel better about themselves. Warriors commit to violence by training beforehand, so that they show no hesitation in battle to kill anybody in the way,

Ironically, in an armed society, prisons are there more to protect the prisoners than the populace. Since any single criminal or even pack of criminals will start dying on the streets pretty soon should they be released. America is an interesting hybrid of a lot of systems, that one included.
 
Obama destroys people because they made him feel bad and insecure. So he unleashes the violence on them, and in Obama’s eyes, it is just of him to do so cause those others said hurtful things about his ego.
 

I usually have to spend a day or two just to get up nerve to drive the 4 miles and traverse the two stop lights to get to the Rack at my local Walmart!

I remember going to a circus in Copenhagen that was quite good. I had only been exposed to the typical traveling circus that frequented small-town America– you know, the ones that had two elephants and a horse. One of the many cultural deprivations of a rural community. 

As to our terrorist guests, I’m with SueK– it sounds pretty cruel to make anyone move to Illinois in the winter, especially given the tropical bungalows at Gitmo. Maybe Obama isn’t as much against torture as we think. After all, he lived there for 20 years, so he can’t claim he mis-remembered.