Here is one of a zillion things that good people are doing world over, in small and big ways. Torture/POW is already written in the Geneva Convention. It dehumanizes us all. Soldiers in the US are
also in a weird predicament, where they are tried by the military, which leaves things rife for corruption, inside 'justice' jobs.
Consider the recent resignation of Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, a US military prosecutor at Guantanamo, who said the trial system there is 'a creeping rot.' When prosecutors are revolted, I'd say there's a problem. Law is nothing more than agreements among peoples; it's a w'rite of what we commonly think is important in a society.
Center for Constitutional Rights - Guantánamo, Jan 20-09
"There is a great deal of discussion about the difficulty of closing the base. In fact, as the Center for Constitutional Rights has laid out in a clear and concise report, closing Guantánamo is easy. There are three simple and necessary steps to close Guantánamo:
1. send those who can go home home,
2. secure safe haven for those who cannot, and
3. charge those who can be charged then try them in ordinary federal criminal court.
"President Obama should commit to dismantling the military commissions, not just suspending them, and to prosecuting any cases before federal criminal courts - real courts with real laws.
"Please join us today to write to President Obama, and let him know that the people of the United States are calling upon him to seize this historic opportunity and to show true leadership in closing Guantánamo swiftly and effectively, closing the book on this dark chapter in the history of the United States. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/383/t/4089/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26448"]You can write President Obama here."
If you knew the ways in which humans were degraded at Guantánamo, without access to any means of defense, caged, degraded and whatnot. Lots of wrongs just make another wrong. We believed America was a shining light, once. Democracy doesn't happen by itself, as a concept. Cowboy 'justice' was OK for cowboys, then. Take Your Light - share.
Please understand how this ties in with the whole 9/11 truth commission. Who exactly should be where??????????
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