Solidarity against Gitmo
January 6, 2008 by Fran · 3 Comments
“They’re living in the tropics… They’ve got everything they could possibly want.”
- Dick Cheney
Torture and indefinite detention are shamefully un-American, inhumane, unconscionable.
WEAR ORANGE January 11 and protest the shame that is Guantánamo Bay.
To me, the guantanamo prison is an especially low spot in US history. What would be the need to have a prison housed in another country, that does not follow our own laws of due process, other than to circumvent the law? Denying Habeus Corpus rights- to even present the reason why a prisoner is in jail– what they are charged with. The US has not declared war in Iraq, and calls the prisoners “detainees”, so that they don’t have to follow prisoner of war protocol. We don’t even know the extent of abuse & torture that goes on there.
Enough!
JANUARY 11, 2008, is the six-year anniversary of the first arrival of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay.
On January 11, we are calling on everyone opposed to torture and indefinite detention to WEAR ORANGE to symbolize their sadness and disgust with the national shame that is Guantánamo Bay.
January 11, 2008 will mark six years since the first 20 prisoners arrived at Guantánamo Bay Cuba. Since then, 775 prisoners have passed through the gates and no trials have been completed.
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