John McCain can drape himself in the American flag all he wants, but as long as he thinks violating every American constitutional principal of freedom and civil justice if just fine, he remains nothing but an unprincipled Republican hypocrite!
I challenge anyone to listen to this interview with Candace Gorman, an attorney representing two of the detainees being held at Guantanamo. Listen and see if you are proud of what this country has done to the lives of these men who have been imprisoned for years and have never been charged with anything! If you are angry at the way the moron at the Social Security Office or the Tag Office treat you, you should be enraged at what is going on in Guantanamo, Cuba. If you are fine, like McCain is, with a government that ruins the lives of innocent people, I feel sorry for you. (Actually, that is not how I feel, but it is the only thing I can write without shaming my mother!)
Candace did not get involved with Guantanamo detainees until 2005. At the time she thought this would take a few months of her time. Since then she has closed her private law practice and is engaged full-time in trying to get her clients out of Guatanamo. At the time of this interview she was in the Netherlands.
Did you know that of the 900+ detainees at Guantanamo, there are only 200+ left? Where did they all go? Only a handful have ever been charged or tried, including Saddam’s extremely dangerous driver. What happened to them? After holding these people for years the U.S. is sneaking them out of Guantanamo under the cover of darkness and putting them on planes to places that will take them.
What is absolutely criminal is the treatment that one of Candace’s clients has received. The client, an Arab, a baker from Afghanistan, is ill and although he has been held for more than 4 years, still doesn’t know what he is accused of. One tribunal found there was no evidence to hold him. A second tribunal reviewed the same evidence and declared him an enemy combatant. The strange thing is that if Candace could find a country that would take him, the U. S. would let him leave, as well. You would think that would be easy.
Candace convinced Switzerland to accept him. The U. S. response? If Switzerland will ask for him, he can go. Problem? Switzerland doesn’t “ask” for people seeking asylum, they “accept” them after someone else asks. Thus, the U. S. won’t let him go. Now, Candace is looking for another country to “ask.”
How anyone running for president can condone this travesty of American justice is beyond me, but I sure as hell won’t be voting for McCain!
This is a joke, at the expense of real humans who have done nothing to us, certainly nothing deserving this kind of treatment.
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