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No Justice Today at Guantanamo
Washington Post ^ | 7/1/09 | Barry Wingard

Posted on 07/01/2009 6:34:33 AM PDT by steve-b

Like his fellow prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Kuwaiti detainee Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari hoped that President Obama's election would finally bring justice. Judges, not political appointees, would prevail and restore the rule of law.

Unfortunately, nothing seems to have changed. The Obama administration is reportedly considering an executive order that would "reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely," and the situation at the prison itself is worsening....

When international media attention on Guantanamo grew, such "enhanced" interrogation techniques stopped. But since Obama pledged to close the prison, cell extractions, slurs and petty persecutions have increased. In some cases, the guards are reacting to antagonism from the detainees. But some guards have also become more aggressive toward the prisoners and even read their mail.

Guantanamo has become a dark symbol of the standard of justice the United States has meted out in the "global war on terror." Protecting American lives is paramount, but it is not true that we can be safe only by ignoring our country's values and imprisoning people for the better part of a decade without their legal rights.

Each time I travel to Guantanamo Bay to visit Fayiz, his first question is, "Have you found justice for me today?" This leads to an awkward hesitation.

"Unfortunately, Fayiz," I tell him, "I have no justice today."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: gitmo; guantanamo; torture

1 posted on 07/01/2009 6:34:33 AM PDT by steve-b
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To: steve-b

The author sounds like he’s found his true love.


2 posted on 07/01/2009 6:38:09 AM PDT by theDentist (qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: steve-b

The writer lawyer is a JAG Lt. Colonel in the National Guard, believe it or not!


3 posted on 07/01/2009 6:41:49 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: steve-b
The guards have become so aggressive that they sometimes read the prisoners’ mail!
The horrors!
4 posted on 07/01/2009 6:42:17 AM PDT by FreedomOfExpression
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To: theDentist

The only justice non-uniformed Enemy combatants and terrorists deserve is a firing squad....


5 posted on 07/01/2009 6:49:50 AM PDT by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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To: steve-b

This author is a whiny, girly, man..


6 posted on 07/01/2009 6:50:07 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Dont Tread on Me)
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To: steve-b

Al Qaeda doesn’t believe in justice, except their own merciless variety.

Some people don’t understand this, and insist on treating these prisoners as victims.


7 posted on 07/01/2009 7:02:19 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The Democrats have returned to their game of supporting totalitarian regimes. Now they're muslim.)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
The writer lawyer is a JAG Lt. Colonel in the National Guard

Yeah; that's why didn't shrug it off as just the usual suspects gibbering and found it worthy of posting here.

8 posted on 07/01/2009 7:05:47 AM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: steve-b
Judges, not political appointees, would prevail and restore the rule of law.

The author is delusional.

9 posted on 07/01/2009 7:24:23 AM PDT by ex91B10 (The only response now is mass resistance.)
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To: steve-b

Give them their freedom. Since no country is willing to take them push them out of a plane right over the point at the exact opposite of the earth from Mecca. There is an Island the French did nuclear testing on nearby.


10 posted on 07/01/2009 8:12:31 AM PDT by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
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