Shut Guantánamo Down
Tell President Bush to just shut it down.
The Guantánamo Bay prisoner of war camp is a disgrace to all Americans. In a recent report, the International Committee of the Red Cross referred to Guantánamo as the "gulag of our times." Even New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is now calling on President Bush to tear down the prison.
As Friedman wrote, "Guantánamo Bay is becoming the anti-Statue of Liberty." When it's clear both at home and abroad that the U.S. is responsible for the torture and abuse of prisoners -- including those who have been detained for years without being charged with any crime -- our standing in the world community is irreparably harmed and anti-American passions around the world are inflamed.
The longer Gitmo stands, the more likely it is that innocent Americans citizens will be killed in terrorist attacks. Its very existence helps recruit and inspire foot soldiers in guerilla efforts to harm to Americans in the U.S. and around the world.
President Bush, it's time to close Guantánamo. The hundreds of
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http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/petition.cfm?itemid=19123Bush blasts Amnesty report on Guantanamo
President says document is an ‘absurd report’
The Associated Press
Updated: 11:56 a.m. ET May 31, 2005
WASHINGTON - A human rights group's report about conditions at the U.S. military's prison at Guantanamo Bay is "absurd," President Bush told reporters Tuesday.
The Amnesty International report, released last week, said prisoners at the U.S. Navy base had been mistreated and called for the prison to be shut down.
The president, addressing a news conference at the White House, said the Amnesty document was an “absurd report.”
“It’s absurd. It’s an absurd allegation. The United States is a country that promotes freedom around the world,” Bush said of the report, which compared Guantanamo to a Soviet-era gulag.
He said the Amnesty allegations were based on interviews with detainees, who hated America and were trained to lie.
Bush's remarks echoed similar criticism by Vice President Dick Cheney.
“Frankly, I was offended by it,” Cheney said in the videotaped interview with CNN's Larry King. “For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don’t take them seriously.”
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8046041/Edit to add this below:
"This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were freed … were not, as some assumed,inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual prison guards, their deputies, and men who laid violent hands on the detainees."
Rudolf Hoess,
the SS commandant at Auschwitz.
One thing is for certain: There won't be any more mass graves and torture rooms and rape rooms."—Bush, press availability in Monterrey,
Mexico, Jan. 12, 2004
Sign Amnesty International’s petition .
Sign our Petition Letter and Pledge Your Commitment to Denounce Torture
As part of the Denounce Torture: Stop It Now! initiative, Amnesty International USA is hoping to have at least 250,000 people living in the United States sign a special statement against torture. Amnesty International USA will use this petition letter in our efforts to show the Bush Administration, Congress, and others that those living in the United States are strongly opposed to torture and ill-treatment in all circumstances.
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Torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment are despicable, immoral, illegal and always wrong. The highest authorities in my country should publicly denounce these acts in the strongest possible terms, and never utilize them, not least in my name.
Governments around the world should not only condemn but prosecute to the full extent of the law any of these acts by our own agents, whether in this country or anywhere else we have control. No one should be held in secret, beyond the eyes of the law, where such acts can flourish.
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http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/petition/Index.asp?id=30Amnesty International Wants U.S. Officials Arrested and Investigated
By Bob Dart
05/26/05 "Cox News" - - WASHINGTON - Amnesty International USA urged foreign governments Wednesday to use international law to investigate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other alleged American "architects of torture" at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and other prisons where detainees suspected of ties to terrorist groups have been interrogated.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8956.htmRead post 8, please
Letter received from The White House today in response to my
letter about the Torture !
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