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Guantanamo military lawyer breaks ranks to condemn 'unconscionable' detention - Independent Online Edition > Americas (http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3101949.ece - broken link)
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The whistleblower's testimony is the most serious attack to date on the military panels, which were meant to give a fig- leaf of legitimacy to the interrogation and detention policies at Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay. The major has taken part in 49 status review panels.
Creepy... so I guess, for all we know, Cindy Sheehan or Ralph Nader or Noam Chomsky or Paul Krugman or Keith Olbermann, or that Australian guy on CNN who gives the pessimistic Iraq war reports could end up down there.
Then again, probably not, but it probably wouldn't be too difficult for them to enemy combatantasize their foreign equivalents.
We know so little of this crime against humanity that it's hard to come up with a response other than shock and disbelief. I can't think of anything that more easily erodes one's sense of patriotism. We go about our business, pay the bills, walk the dog, feed the kids, fight the traffic, etc. and we forget that these innocent people have been held prisoner by the government that screams democracy the loudest. They are guilty of no crime because they haven't been charged. They are not allowed lawyers or family visitation. Hell, they aren't even allowed to kill themselves without being tied down and force fed. I guess this sick government feels that it's more important to keep torturing people than to ever admit a mistake or defeat. We, the people of this country, turned our back on the most obvious breach of justice in the last hundred years. Maybe the reason we know so little of these crimes is because we already feel the guilt and recoil in shame at its mere mention. May the inevitable justice fall on those among us who are truly guilty of being there and failing to speak up. Any one of us could be next.
Understand that the neo-cons would do this anyway, even without having available the pretext of the "moral imperative" or "moral justification" given to them by the U.S. being the recipient of a major terrorist act. And the stupid, blood-thirsty, and oh so Christian American People go along with it. It's like the Israelis with the Holocaust; they must believe that there is nothing sufficiently immoral that they can do for their own sake that would be worse than the Holocaust. It's their own irrevocable "get out of jail free" card, you know.
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