Posted on 01/21/2010 6:07:42 AM PST by La Lydia
WASHINGTON - Activists plan to protest what they consider President Barack Obama's broken promise of closing the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay. Organizers with Witness Against Torture say they will gather outside the White House Thursday morning and march to the U.S. Supreme Court for a vigil. The group says Obama has failed to live up to a pledge he made after taking office - that Guantanamo would shut down within a year. Members say they've been fasting for almost a dozen days to remember more than 200 detainees still being held...
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Right, I'm sure they actually witnessed it. What a bunch of idiots.
My daughter and her school will be heading to DC tomorrow for the “March for life”.
Hope the weathers good for them. Catholic school?
I’d love to march with them, my sign saying “CLOSE GITMO, KILL THE TERRORIST INMATES” on one side and “CLOSE GITMO, STOP TAKING PRISONERS” on the other. Think those peace-lovers might try to put a beatdown on me?
;0)
“This should be interesting. Wonder who these “activists” are? “
Might be John McCain and his supporters...
April 2008
The three political candidates want to close Guantanamo. Sen. John McCain wants to move the detainees to the federal prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/29/guantanamo-security-courts-oped-cx_jdz_0429gitmo.html
“I believe we should close Guantanamo,” McCain, who spent six years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, said in a foreign policy address in Los Angeles, where he argued that the United States cannot go it alone in the world and must respect the views of valued allies.
“Our great power does not mean that we can do whatever we want, whenever we want,” said McCain, 71. McCain’s comments marked a sharp departure from the Bush administration’s policy of acting unilaterally when it believes US interests are at stake. “We need to listen to the views and respect the collective will of our democratic allies,” the Arizona senator said, calling for the creation of a League of Democracies and a trans-atlantic common market.
“There is the powerful collective voice of the European Union, and there are the great nations of India and Japan, Australia and Brazil, South Korea and South Africa, Turkey and Israel, to name just a few of the leading democracies,”
http://rinf.com/alt-news/politics/mccain-says-he-wants-guantanamo-closed/2842/
They are left wing, anti-American, unemployed “activists”.
Obama isn’t the change they were hoping for.
Yes!
Thanks!
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