Golden Cage: US blows $800k per Gitmo inmate each year

[DeSwiss]

RussiaToday·Published on Apr 10, 2013

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Guantanamo's hunger strike has passed the two-month mark - and its got psychologists and lawyers deeply worried. One prisoner of 11 years who's refusing food even tried to kill himself last month. His lawyer says the inmate was taken away by ambulance - his condition's unknown. U.S. officials are telling attorneys whether their hunger-striking clients are being force-fed. Officially, 42 inmates are protesting, but their lawyers say it's many more. Demonstrations are planned on Thursday across the U.S. in support of the Guantanamo inmates, and to push for the notorious facility to be shut down. But, as Gayane Chickakyan reports, the Pentagon's only pumping more cash into keeping it open.

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[center]There be no meals-on-wheels.
Blue Angel's wings get clipped.
Bridges do fall, and unemployment pay stalls.
But there's no sequestration at GIT.[/center]

[indepat]

1. But with the comfort of knowing we are made safe from foreign terra, we all should be willing to

accept a much higher risk of dying needlessly from lack of adequate shelter, warmth, or medical care, not to mention the mal-nutrition provided through a diet of cat-food, or violently by some domestic right-wing extremist or other pistol/AR-15-toting gun enthusiast or by an environment blighted through industrial greed.

[Turbineguy]

2. The prisoners are doing their job

with the help of the US Government.

[AAO]

3. Can we give them each 10mil to just go retire somewhere?

[Moostache]

4. But, but, but....TERROR!!! FEAR!!!! (BTW - thanks grandma for your food money...too broke ya know!)

Shit like this makes me want to punch puppies already...goddamn it, we are seriously discussing cuts to social programs that are budget neutral by fucking law and at the same time we are pissing away MILLIONS a year on illegally imprisoning and holding people without trials?!?!?!

The fucking Tea-baggers were right about one thing - I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK ALREADY!!!

We are the United States of America. For fuck's sake, we were able to put a man on the moon and send probes out of the solar system and build the most potent armed force ever seen on the planet, yet we can't hold a fucking trial and carry out sentence on the people from Gitmo after 11 YEARS?!?!?!

President Obama, you have already lost my respect for your word, but if you want to salvage at least a shred of dignity for your name and record on human rights you will END THIS NOW! No more bullshit about how hard it is or anything else, and if the wingnuts want to whine, tell them you need a tax increase over $5M a year to continue paying for detainees, otherwise the trials start in New York City next month and sentences will be carried out in the empty super-max prisons in North Dakota and Illinois immediately. Have some balls and do the right thing.