Tear Down Guantanamo
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THE PLEDGE:
"The America I believe in doesn't torture people or use cruel, inhuman treatment; doesn't hold people without charge, without fair trials, without hope, and without end; doesn't kidnap people off the street and ship them to nations known for their brutality; doesn't justify the use of secret prisons; and does not rob people of their basic dignity."
Did you know:
-There are still 355 people being held in horrific conditions in Guantanamo, only 15 of which are considered "high value detainees."
-Only 10 have ever been charged with any crime.
-there were 110 incidents of harm/suicide in 2006 alone.
-55% of detainees have not been determined to have committed a hostile act towards US.
-The US offered large bounties for the capture of suspected enemies. 86% were not arrested on the battlefield, but by Pakistani or Afgan authorities, who then turned them over US authorities.
-23 PRISONERS ATTEMPTED TO HANG OR STRANGLE THEMSELVES IN AUGUST 2003 ALONE.
Should Guantanamo Bay Prison be kept open indefinately and continue to imprison those there forever without charge?
Peace
"The America I believe in doesn't torture people or use cruel, inhuman treatment; doesn't hold people without charge, without fair trials, without hope, and without end; doesn't kidnap people off the street and ship them to nations known for their brutality; doesn't justify the use of secret prisons; and does not rob people of their basic dignity."
Did you know:
-There are still 355 people being held in horrific conditions in Guantanamo, only 15 of which are considered "high value detainees."
-Only 10 have ever been charged with any crime.
-there were 110 incidents of harm/suicide in 2006 alone.
-55% of detainees have not been determined to have committed a hostile act towards US.
-The US offered large bounties for the capture of suspected enemies. 86% were not arrested on the battlefield, but by Pakistani or Afgan authorities, who then turned them over US authorities.
-23 PRISONERS ATTEMPTED TO HANG OR STRANGLE THEMSELVES IN AUGUST 2003 ALONE.
Should Guantanamo Bay Prison be kept open indefinately and continue to imprison those there forever without charge?
Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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Yeah.
Just fucking great buddy.
Lets imprison everyone that doesn't have blonde hair and blue eyes.
That will show 'em!
If I opened it now would you not understand?
I don't get the feeling that people, even those here, "don't care" about gitmo.
I think the problem is just that Guantanamo is such a specific piece of the total bullshit-pie that is this administration's policy and war, that most who are enraged have acknowledged the injustice of it, but are focusing more of their energies on the bigger picture.
In other words, yes - i am sickened by gitmo, but to me it is just one of the many symptoms of this administration, and the war specificaly. Possibly for many, a focus on just that small piece is hard to manage. They are constantly distracted by all the other rage they feel, and find it easier to focus on "the war stinks" or "i hate bush".
Just a thought.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
really fucking nice...
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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And yet I wonder why so many other countries don't seem to like us all that much after seeing the good we do in the world.
I'd love to ask all those in the Bush administration that think that keeping prisoners at Guantanamo Bay is some kind of necessary evil when in the hell did evil ever become something that is remotely necessary?
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