MORNING NEWS NOTES: Haiti and Steve Bannon
HAITI
Notes from Friday’s AMVO (Steve Bannon)
• Steve Bannon and his ilk are on AMVO television yapping on about hundreds of thousands of Haitians being essentially smuggled to this country by the federal government. It’s the same “immigrant scare” theme they have been pumping for years. A guest on Bannon’s show is talking about Haitians are being flown out of Haiti (where the airport is closed) and taken either to this country or to Guantanamo.
• Bannon begins to rave on about Haitians being able to claim amnesty because at Guantanamo they would be on US soil. The guest corrects Bannon and points out that Guantanamo is not considered legally US soil. Bannon is so ignorant he does not remember that Guantanamo was established as the place the Bush administration put all their captured “terrorists” (most of whom are still in custody because they can’t convict them) because it wasn’t on US soil.
• The fact that Guantanamo was outside US soil was the reason it was chosen because with prisoners on Guantanamo, the federal government didn’t need to give “enemy combatants“ the same constitutional rights granted to those in the US.
• Perhaps Bannon is distracted by the imminent threat of his own trial.
See https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/politics/steve-bannon-trial-date/index.html
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