The Disgrace of Guantanamo Bay

At long last, the Senate was poised to enter into a committee level investigation into our national disgrace at Guantanamo Bay. They even had a whistle blowing witness from the Pentagon on the schedule.

Col. Morris Davis was the chief prosecutor for the terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay until he resigned because of his objections to the politics behind decisions on who should be tried in what order. Those decisions, he said, were politicized to the point that prosecutable cases were to be ignored while higher profile cases whose successful prosecution could possibly garner votes in the 2008 elections were to be moved up on the court’s calendar.

The Pentagon, however, ordered him not to testify. Instead we got the apologist Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann who said the military commissions are an "honor to the American justice system of which Americans should be very proud."

It’s just another case of the lack of ethics on constant display by the administration. Because the military is involved and the president is the commander-in-chief this is less visible, but the tactics are exactly the same as those employed by Alberto Gonzalez in the Department of Justice. The idea there was to determine which way investigations into voting fraud would go as well as prosecutions with political import. In the case of Guantanamo, it’s purely political.

Not only did the administration want to decide on a political basis which cases to prosecute, but also has a real need not to prosecute those cases in which plausible evidence of terrorism is lacking. In other words, they want to continue to hold prisoners against whom no evidence exists, but whose release would reflect badly on the entire Guantanamo prison system.

In short, we have an administration that is much more concerned about the outcome of domestic elections than about the rights human beings. Their concern is concentrating and holding onto all the power they can garner. Beyond that nothing matters to them.

To see them strutting about the stage in their “moral values” plumage is one of the most sickening aspects of being an American these days.

It would be nice to think that we have the chance to vote the *#@&#(!!s out of office next fall, but watching the Demorats fall all over themselves this week to give BushCo all they are asking for to continue our mad war in Iraq doesn’t exactly fill my heart to overflowing with hope.

Given the way our politicians and preachers have of twisting God into a monster suited to their wishes, we can’t even ask Him to bless us out of this mess. We’ll just have to do it ourselves.


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Individually we have little voice. Collectively we cannot be ignored.
But in silence we surrender our power. Yours in Peace -- BR

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