This January 11 marks the 11th anniversary of the date the U.S. captured patriots on their own property who were attempting to expel a more powerful invader… and imprisoned them in a disgusting P.O.W. camp.
Here are some facts about the shameful North Vietnamese (oops, I mean U.S.) Guantanamo P.O.W. concentration camp:
86% of the detainees housed there were never captured by American forces but rather handed over to coalition forces by Afghani or Pakistani villagers in exchange for a bounty. How would you like to go to jail for years based on the testimony of someone who profits from that testimony?
Our own government estimates 92% of the detainees have never fought for al-Qaeda. They fought to expel a more powerful foreign invader who came 1/2 way around the world to occupy their homeland. They are patriots for their country just like you and I would be for our country if the U.S. was invaded. They are their country’s heroes.
Some of those captured and taken away to the U.S.-run concentration camp were children as young as age 15, fighting to defend their home towns from foreign occupancy.
The International Red Cross has condemned the prolonged detention of prisoners at the concentration camp.
Britain’s third most senior judge, Judge Johan Steyn, criticized the U.S. for holding people in Guantanamo, calling it a “monstrous failure of justice.” “By denying the prisoners the right to raise challenges in a court about their alleged status and treatment, the United States government is in breach of the minimum standards of customary international law.”
Of the 779 people detained at Guantanamo since it opened in 2002, more than 600 have already been released without ever being charged with a crime, because our government couldn’t find any evidence that the people in question had ever been involved in terrorism. The 600 and their families have never been financially compensated for their prison time.
In February 2006, a United Nations human rights report called on the United States to immediately close Guantanamo, saying that some of the treatment meted out to detainees there amounted to torture.
Seven U.S. military prosecutors assigned to Guantanamo have resigned or requested reassignment due to concerns that the military trials being held there are unjust. The youngest prisoner, captured when he was a child, was given a prison sentence that is 15 years longer than U.S. prosecutors recommended! WTF?
Each year, the U.S. government pays rent to the sovereign country of Cuba for the land the Guantanamo base is on. Cuba has never cashed the checks and also views the base as a foreign invasion/occupancy of their country.
Not a single U.S. serviceman who worked at this concentration camp has ever been charged with crimes against humanity, despite their participation in operating the Hitler-style secret prison.
If you have family members serving in the U.S. military, you don’t want the enemy to point to Guantanamo as a justification for keeping your loved one in perma-captivity… should they ever be captured. Doing so is a violation of international rules of war.
Please keep this in mind whenever you see one of those silly, black POW-MIA YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN flags. It is the U.S. that dishonorably keeps P.O.W.s in perma-captivity. And they are not forgotten.
Obama can’t run for a third term. He should fulfill his campaign promise and close the concentration camp… and then arrest the war criminals who operated it.
Oh, and in case you didn’t know, Obama wants to send the gitmo folks to Illinois, a little over 125 miles from me. What does he care? He’ll be in his free Hawaiian estate.
Islamic radicals in your own back yard, brought to you by Obama and Illinois senator Dick Turban. That’s how desparate for cash our liberal controlled state government is. Send the terror suspects to the one state without a concealed carry law.:roll:
Well, it isn’t very “radical” to attempt to expel a foreign invader from your homeland. I want my team to win… but it’s the opponent’s prerogative to resist.
If the Afghan Army ever sets up a military base in Boulder, Colorado… I’ll be a road-side bomb settin’, hostage-takin’, machete swingin’, face handkerchief wearing, video makin’ patriot myself. And if I am captured by the enemy and taken 1/2 way around the world to a P.O.W. camp… I would hope to be treated humanely and to one day be released so that I can return home to Colorado.
I bet the detainees are not complaining. Free food, soccer fields, TV, internet, medical care, clothing, medical; they have it better there than in their own country.
The invaded people have a right to resist occupancy by shooting back. If that makes them “murderers” in your opinion, what does that say about your opinion of those on the invading/occupying side of the battlefield? Something worse than murderers? There is no such thing as “murderers” on a battlefield… only warriors (on both sides).
That is historically true, however, these “religious soldiers” are intentionally targeting innocent children and unarmed civilians. That is not a warrior, that is a coward, and that is a terrorist.
That link is from 2009, during Obama’s carte blanche. What was the bill in which Mitch McConnell’s(Senate MINORITY leader in 2009:roll:) deciding vote blocked Obama’s heartfelt attempts to close Gitmo?
