Re: [Marxism] The Slavery Amendment and the Guantanamo prisoners

["Stuart Lawrence" <stuartlawrence@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What about the Guantanamo situation suggests "servitude"? I haven't
heard about Gitmo prisoners being subjected to forced labor or assigned
to any form of work detail, for that matter.

Stuart Lawrence

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Shannon" <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>


13th. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their
jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.

[. . .]

However, an even more powerful legal case might be made for the 13th
Amendment, the amendment that outlaws slavery. The words are an exact
fit for the prisoners at Guantanamo. There is "involuntary servitude",
"duly convicted ... for crime", and "any place subject to their
jurisdiction." However, one may describe the legal status of the U.S.
occupation of Guantanamo Bay, there is no doubt that it is "subject to
[the United States] jurisdiction."


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