Posted on 07/02/2008 1:53:36 PM PDT by bs9021
Welcome to Guantanamo Bay
by: Emily Miller, July 02, 2008
Guantanamo Bay prison is coming to a city near you, courtesy of the Cell Tour, an offshoot project of Amnesty International. The Cell Tour is transporting a replica of a Guantanamo Bay prison cell across the USA, and set up shop in the Nation’s Capitol last week, demanding that the U.S. government shut down the controversial prison due to alleged human-rights violations.
The bright orange cell was plopped down a mile or two from the Washington Monument and a block away from the Washington Folk Festival, attracting over 1,000 curious tourists and raising eyebrows from local D.C. residents.
Some people were uneasy seeing the prison cell so close to the monuments, Cell Logistics Assistant Meghann Ellis said, but she also noted that many were receptive to hearing the Tour’s message, which was “counter terror with justice” and “protect human rights in the fight against terrorism.”
The exhibit features one life-size Camp 5 maximum-security prison cell replica, apparently similar to the prison cells at Guantanamo Bay where terrorist suspects are held. Inside the 10.17 x 6.89 foot cell is a toilet, a seat and a Cell Tour guide spouting off supposed facts about the conditions in which detainees live—like the fact that they are held in isolation in the cell for up to 23 hours daily.
Although semi-anti-climatic, some observers thought the prison cell was a powerful, creative way to protest the conditions of detainees. D.C. resident James Sheehan thought it provided “shock value,” and said the cell “engages people and brings them in, and, hopefully, it will have an impact.”...
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I should go to one of these “shows” and loudly question why we have not built more of these and put more terrorists in them.
“creative way to protest the conditions of detainees.”
I’d like to protest the conditions of detainees, too: WHY ARE THEY NOT ROOM TEMPERATURE?!!
Their always fair about Gitmo...aren't they?/s
Sell Sell Sell their product!
They need a sign: Caution! Professional protesters at work!
Please bring it to my town.
My granddaughter would love some pictures of Gitmo.
I would like some pictures of the wife and I standing in front.
We could make then into Christmas cards and mass mail them to the Iranian, Syrian, Saudi, Yemini and a few other Governments that need to have an understanding of what awaits them when the screw with U.S.
Are they selling T-shirts. Cool gifts......
What would happen if I came to their display wearing 12 sticks of TNT and shouting “Allah Akbar”?
(What would happen if I came to their display wearing 12 sticks of TNT and shouting “Allah Akbar”?)
You would immediately be arrested for “hate crimes”.
That title will look good on her resume.
They are detainees.
No they wouldn’t like going to Texas.
I’d like to go see this. I wonder if I’ll be able to pry the footpad off of the toilet and beat the guards.
Or if they’ll let me throw a feces cocktail on the guards.
Perhaps I could just yell, “MP Donkey!”
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