Calling Opaque Clear - Gitmo Glossing

"Transparency in Government" is one of those terms that always means the exact opposite of what the words mean. Every new hopeful uses this term to try and convince the population that they have some kind of ethics. Perhaps they do but for some reason they must get some kind of injection as soon as they are elected because it is the very first thing to go.

Kevin Rudd promised it and immediately hid everything behind a screen of rhetoric. Obama fell to it a scant few days after being elected. Guantanamo Bay Naval Base or Gitmo holds terrorists and Obama is going to close it. He, or his representatives, are also holding back a recent report that looked at over 100 detainees that were released and tracked their recidivism rate.

It turns out that just under half, as tracked so far, returned to militant Islamic practices like blowing up people with bombs and leading Al Qaeda cells. Remembering that these were the ones they released so far, presumably because they had poor evidence on them, that leaves the rest.

Those still remaining in Gitmo are the ones they believe or can prove to be terrorists and they are going to be released. There is a high level of certainty that most of these will go back to doing what they do so well, blowing up innocent civilians. Why are they being released? Simple, the 'Do Gooders' say they have not been treated fairly under due process of law.

So perhaps this is why governments are never transparent. They don't want us to worry about their terrible decisions, the ones that put our lives in greater danger through abject mismanagement and folding to the opinions of wolly headed people who have no base in reality.