After 23 Years, Prisoners Remain in Guantanamo Without Charges
After 23 Years, Prisoners Remain in Guantanamo Without Charges
January 11 marked the twenty-third anniversary of the opening of the US military prison on occupied land in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Clearing the FOG speaks with Andy Worthington, an investigative journalist and author of The Guantanamo Files. Worthington explains that the United States opened the pris...
And I've been saying for 23 years that a country that allows that to happen cannot be called a democracy anymore.
The fact that nobody - and I mean literally NO-FUCKING-BODY - even thinks about those men, their ruined lives and that of their families, and that there hasn't been a demonstration every day about it for the past 23 years in the United States also says a lot about Americans too. And what it says is: as long as my belly is full, that's all that matters.
American Democracy works simply by ignoring all evidence of it not being a democracy and calling them exceptions instead of the rule.