The Constitution, The Supreme Court, The Geneva Convention, Amnesty International, The Red Cross...And every fucking decent bone in every Human Being on Earth now agree Gitmo is illegal, immoral and unconscionable.
Shut Gitmo Down!
Children as young as ten years old, guys standing on street corners, enemies that have been turned in WITH NO EVIDENCE by their rivals to recieve a BOUNTY paid by YOUR GOVERNMENT.
In the in the time after 9/11, in the blood lust and war fervor and the Rumsfeld Daily PR show, the U.S. got Guantanamo, the Pakistanis got paid and Al Qaeda and the Taliban mostly got away.
Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit, recently told the National Journal that less than 10% of Guantanamo prisoners are high-value Al Qaeda operatives with any knowledge of terrorism. Of those turned over by Pakistan, he said: "We absolutely got the wrong people."
Severin Carrell in The Children of Guantanamo
http://www.uruknet.info/...
SHUT Gitmo DOWN!
YOUR Government, YOUR Employees,YOUR MONEY have been holding men and children in cages, chained to the floor, harrased and tortured, force fed and forced into suicide FOR FOUR YEARS!
SHUT GITMO DOWN!
These Are Human Beings Dammit!
SHUT GITMO DOWN
WHEN DID THAT STOP MATTERING?
SHUT GITMO DOWN
YOUR sons and daughters are being trained to torture
SHUT GITMO DOWN
THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE DOING
SHUT GITMO DOWN
The Supreme court has ruled. Holding Human Beings in cages for the rest of their lives is wrong. FUCKING DUH!
FOUR YEARS!!!!
Momentum is building. The Administration is weakening. Public outcry mounts. This is why its different now, this is why we can make a difference now, why YOU can make a difference now!
Here is the difference, here is why a big push right now can not only free Human Beings from unjust bondage, give a black eye to Bushco that will last til the elections, and hopefully TAKE DOWN RUMSFELD!!!
This is where they are weakest, We all know that they are vulnerable now. The question is how to capitalize on that vulnerability. This IS the most indefensible thing they are doing. This IS where they are beginning to take flak from The Whole World. This IS where we can hit them and make a difference. We have been waiting for a way to hurt these guys where they live...THIS IS IT! A concerted Activist, Informational, Political Pressure (hellloooo all you Dkos posting politicians) Fax and E-Mail campaign on our part, focusing the vast potentiality of Dkos CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE RIGHT NOW!
A record of shame and inhumanity
Witness Against Torture: Campaign to Shut Down Guantanamo
http://www.witnesstorture.org/
Amnesty International: Guantánamo Bay - a human rights scandal (with slideshow and testimony of detainees)
http://web.amnesty.org/...
Cage Prisoners: Guantanamo Moving To Prevent Suicides
http://www.cageprisoners.com/...
The Most Comprehensive Detainee List On The 'Net:
http://www.cageprisoners.com/...
Countries Arranged According To Number of Detainees
Country No. of Citizens at Guantanamo
Saudi Arabia (127-160+)
Yemen (85-110)
Pakistan (82)
Afghanistan (80-100)
Jordan (30)
Egypt (30)
Algeria (19)
Morocco (18 +)
Kuwait (12-16)
China (12)
Tajikistan (11)
Sudan (12-13)
Turkey (11)
Britain (9)
Tunisia (8 )
Russia (8 )
France (7-11)
Bahrain (6-8 )
Chechnya (2+)
Uzbekistan (3+)
Canada (2)
Syria (2+)
Georgia (2+)
Australia (2)
Belgium (2)
Iraq (2-3+)
Libya (2)
Mauritania (1-2)
Germany (1 resident)
Kenya (1)
Sweden (1)
Spain (1)
Qatar (1)
Bangladesh (1)
Palestine (1)
Kazakhstan (1)
Uganda (1)
The Road To Guantanamo (film clips, reviews, blog):
http://www.roadtoguantanamomovie.com/
A Prayer Near the Gates of the Guantanamo Prisoners
http://www.witnesstorture.org/...
The Case of the Cuban Five
http://www.counterpunch.org/...
Free The Cuban Five
http://www.freethefive.org/...
Speech by Felipe Perez Roque, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cuba, to the Human Rights Council on June 23:
http://www.zmag.org/...
Physicians for Human Rights Condemn Brutal Force-Feeding Methods at Guantánamo:
http://www.phrusa.org/...
What's Really Happening at Guantanamo?
http://www.progressiveu.org/...
Doctors and Torture:
http://www.commondreams.org/...
DC Circuit Considers Fate of Habeas Corpus and the Rule of Law at Guantánamo
http://www.cageprisoners.com/...
Global Security: History and Overview
http://www.globalsecurity.org/...
Bagram Abuse (If Guantamo detainees are mass-transferred to Bagram to circumvent U.S. law, as Bush wants, this is a horrifying preview.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Guantanamo Kids at Risk
http://hrw.org/...
Stop. Investigate. Prosecute.
http://web.amnesty.org/...
Orange Jumpsuit Justice (first time Bush stated he would like to close Guantamo)
http://www.cageprisoners.com/...
WAT Responds to President Bush on Guantánamo
http://www.witnesstorture.org/...
http://www.cageprisoners.com/...
Write To The Forgotten Detainees
Please HelpThis is YOUR GOVERNMENT raise YOUR VOICE
Here's How: Read, Learn. Talk to your friends and family. Write diaries. Cry Out, Scream it if you need to SHUT GITMO DOWN.
A list of all Congresspeoples contact info
Media and more
Faxes are more effective than E-mails: Fax from your computer
Petition: Stop American Torture of Enemy Combatants
Senate Intelligence Commitee Members
House Intelligence Commitee Members
Senate Armed Services Commitee Members
House Amed Services Commitee
Some letter templates for your ease of protest
PLEASE list more contacts and info and actions in the comments.
You don't have to get fancy either, VOLUME counts just as much as content. Just write SHUT GITMO DOWN! and press send, please link to this diary if you'd like.
WE ARE NOT ALONE, we are but a part of the rising hue and cry against this illegal and outrageous Official Policy of Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush!!!
http://www.cageprisoners.com/
http://www.witnesstorture.org/
All over the world
REMEMBER!!! If we do it to them They can do it to us
and OUR SOLDIERS!!!
"I was beaten and verbally abused in detention. After a few days, the guards asked me, 'Do you know that your name is all over the Internet?'
After that, I was treated better by the guards before being released. The appeals sent by Amnesty members definitely had an effect on my case." Rehab Abdel Bagi Mohamed Ali
Please join Bloggers Against Torture
SHUT IT DOWN!
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