Get Out of Gitmo!
So for the passed few years I've been amazed how the U.S. has been able to sweep the bullshit that's been happening at Guantanimo under the rug. How do we just sit here and allow, what in my mind can be equated to a concentration camp, slowly destroy all the basic morals that I've always thought this nation was based on. No matter who the people are being held there, I believe our pledge of allegience states "for freedom and justice for all". Literally cooping up humans (many simply picked up for no other reason then being in the wrong place at the wrong time) in giant cages for over 4 years with no resolution to their predicament is probably the worst of all the presumed tortures they have endured.
I recall a Sartre story called The Wall where a prisoner is held in jail with the idea of his death constantly looming over his head. He finally comes to terms with the idea of his imminent death, only to finally be set free at the last minute. He know longer knows how to face the concept of survival and life is his fear.
These people haven't the luxury of knowing their fate. So many of them have decided to take it upon themselves by committing suicide. Today, they rebelled, and the US attempts to use this event to demonize the prisoners further. I certainly don't mean to suggest that I perceive all of these people as saints who haven't potentially done great harm. I'm sure many of them have. And the US has every right to keep us safe from tyrants. But if they have, then lets prosecute them for their crimes. And if we've made a mistake, we should let them go.
My god, even the humor found in the fact that this place is located in Cuba (those evil cigar smoking communists) seems lost on most of us.
Wars against concepts that can't be won. Force feeding Democracy. Jailing those who haven't been tried. Invading the privacy of our own citizens under the guise of protecting our freedom. Man, its all just exhaustingly absurd.
What do we do about it. I haven't a clue. But if we don't all recognize the problem, we have less of a chance to create the solution...and someone else just might find one for us, and it’ll just end in an ugly circle of destruction.
I recall a Sartre story called The Wall where a prisoner is held in jail with the idea of his death constantly looming over his head. He finally comes to terms with the idea of his imminent death, only to finally be set free at the last minute. He know longer knows how to face the concept of survival and life is his fear.
These people haven't the luxury of knowing their fate. So many of them have decided to take it upon themselves by committing suicide. Today, they rebelled, and the US attempts to use this event to demonize the prisoners further. I certainly don't mean to suggest that I perceive all of these people as saints who haven't potentially done great harm. I'm sure many of them have. And the US has every right to keep us safe from tyrants. But if they have, then lets prosecute them for their crimes. And if we've made a mistake, we should let them go.
My god, even the humor found in the fact that this place is located in Cuba (those evil cigar smoking communists) seems lost on most of us.
Wars against concepts that can't be won. Force feeding Democracy. Jailing those who haven't been tried. Invading the privacy of our own citizens under the guise of protecting our freedom. Man, its all just exhaustingly absurd.
What do we do about it. I haven't a clue. But if we don't all recognize the problem, we have less of a chance to create the solution...and someone else just might find one for us, and it’ll just end in an ugly circle of destruction.
posted by lakeside at 9:30 PM
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