NPR's THIS AMERICAN LIFE has a devastating episode on Guantanomo today

[yurbud]

Normally, this show does human interest stories, but when it turns its attention to political stuff, it is just devastating.

I didn't understand what the big deal was with Hurricane Katrina at first. They have hurricanes and tornados down there every other year I thought.

Then I had the THIS AMERICAN LIFE on in the background as I was doing something else and it was about what happened after the flood. When it got to the sheriff turning back blacks at gunpoint while letting whites pass over the bridge out of town, I dropped everything else I was doing to listen to the rest.

Today, the show is about Guantanamo. Besides having one guy's complete story of what he went through there, apparently, the British filed a friend of the court brief in one case saying we are nuts for suspending habeas. Then it tells the story of the last time that happened in Britain in the 1600s after the Puritan Revolution. After the Puritans were defeated, heads were on sticks all over town, but even so, people were outraged that some prisoners were disappeared to outlying islands without being publicly accused without a chance to respond.

You can download the show from itunes or get it here free:
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=310

Or if you are old school, listen to NPR until they play it again, which should happen about a half dozen times or more over the weekend.

[DawnIsis]

1. It was great everyone should listen to it!

[greenman3610]

2. everyone should listen to this!!!!

I predict this will crack the mainstream media.

[yurbud]

3. After I posted the link, I realized it was an episode from last year.