The Unending Torture of Omar Khadr (Rolling Stone) [View All]

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I don't even have the words. I would rather not know. But if you want to know why your country-America-is no better than a third world hell hole-here's your answer-what's happening to the people in Guantanamo Bay. Reading this article is about the worst forty minutes you can have. I cannot imagine living it.

The guy has been tortured since he was fifteen years old. Beyond the fact that according the the article they waited until he was sixteen to have the status of an "adult" and could hold him-he has been in a solitary cell without sunlight or heat or enough food or a even a blanket and almost no exercise for the last FOUR years. He has been routinely beaten, starved, and not been allowed to sleep. This is what is being done in YOUR name. When he and other prisoners tried to have a hunger strike-it was ending by force feeding food through a tube in their noses and then, they were beaten.

For all the endless outrage about Israel-I wonder where the endless outrage is about the torturing of people in Guantanamo. Democracy Now spends endless hours on Israel and Palestine. I know they have covered this-but not enough. This is something OUR government is doing right now this second in your name to protect you. They mentioned someone-some man that is an Australian citizen that has been held for four years without trial that there were protests about this morning.

It's not abstract. It's not one side or the other. It's torture. And it serves no purpose and it doesn't have to happen.

I don't care if they are guilty or innocent. The estimate-by a military officer no less is that 75 percent are innocent. They were cab drivers, shepherds, kids-picked up in Afghanistan and sent to this hell hole for the rest of their life without trial or any common decency.

I don't think I will ever believe in America as a decent place again.

I feel like someone from Argentina, or Saudi Arabia-somebody that loves the place I actually live-and the people I know, the trees, the flowers-but that those that are supposed to represent me and are supposed to speak for me-are allow pure evil to happen in my name. I've know it was there. I haven't done anything. I'm ashamed to be an American.