Guantanamo Closure Hopes Fade As Prison Turns 10 BY BEN FOX 01/10/12 03:01 AM ET
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Suleiman al-Nahdi waits with dozens of other prisoners in a seemingly permanent state of limbo five years after he was cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay.
"I wonder if the U.S. government wants to keep us here forever," the 37-year-old al-Nahdi wrote in a recent letter to his lawyers.
Open for 10 years on Wednesday, the prison seems more established than ever. The deadline set by President Barack Obama to close Guantanamo came and went two years ago. No detainee has left in a year because of restrictions on transfers, and indefinite military detention is now enshrined in U.S. law....................>>>>................>>>>.....................http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/guantanamo-closure-anniversary_n_1195984.html
With the passing of NDAA I'm sure they're looking into expanding the prison.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
Now americans are no different!!! We too can be detained 'forever'! ..........and will! And that doesn't seem to bother too many americans.............scary!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
it will just get 'updates' and 'additions' and then rhetorically have it's name changed so that it becomes palatable to the masses or just plain accepted......
we just better hope we all have a minority report....oh wait,,,,,it doesn't F'EN matter......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
10 years since the first 20 detainees arrived at Guantánamo Bay’s Camp X-Ray 1 year, 11 months, 21 days since President Barack Obama’s deadline to close Gitmo 779 detainees incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay since 2002 600 detainees have been released 242 detainees at Gitmo when Obama took office 171 detainees still held at Guantánamo Bay 89 detainees still held after being cleared for release 92 percent of prisoners were never al Qaeda fighters according to the U.S. government 86 percent of detainees were turned over after payment of a bounty 13 years old, the age of the youngest detainee 89 years old, the age of the oldest detainee 8 detainee deaths since 2002 6 detainee deaths by suicide 3 alleged detainee homicides from “dry boarding” $139 million per year to keep the Guantánamo Bay prison open $800,000 per year to house each detainee 6 detainees convicted by military commissions 6 detainees currently charged by military commission prosecutor 0 detainees released in the past year
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
13 year old was the youngest detainee. We don't detain them anymore; they get the ole hellfire missile up the a** from a drone. And that's what we do to our own citizens.
In the 50's we had the Red Menace. Now we have the Muslim Menace. Good fascism unifies a nation behind a common enemy. And America never runs out of perceived enemies. American citizens are now on the enemies list. The Bill of Rights is GONE!
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