There has been torture at Guantanamo; we know that .. lawsuits have been filed about it.
There is a prision block no one is given admittance to investigate.
There is at least one child solider being held there.
He didn't speak to one single solitary "detainee".
We know that many that go there are totally innocent.
The prison is located in another sovereign county.
Constitutional attorneys are up in arms about Guantanamo.
Holding people against their will, without charges and no trials is a war crime.
A known torturer is the administrator the camp
AND
even the US State Department says it should be shut down.
But look at what the first Muslim who is elected in the US House of Representatives has to say about it.
denial
(of war crimes)
minimization
("it's not that bad" - only he ain't the one in there. Wonder how he'ds like in there day after day, year after year when perfectly innocent!!)
rationalization
(the security interests of the US must come first, yeah, right!)
delusion
(not recognizing that this sets up all for us for the same fate? Including members of his own family - after all we are all potential "terrorists" and can be finger for bounties to be paid, too.
Think Keith! Think! History is watching you!!
I am so very sick of democrats who play politics
with human rights
listening to advisers who tell them
don't look soft on "terrorists"
Psst! Keith! There are three types of prisoners
those not guilty in anyway are in there, too
and you know that
FOR SHAME
Ellison: Conditions at Guantanamo Bay better than expected
Conditions at the U.S. prisoner camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are better than he expected, but U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said today that he is more concerned than ever about the lack of due process and legal rights afforded the men detained there.
Ellison reported on his whirlwind trip to Guantanamo to students at the University of Minnesota Law School's annual Martin Luther King Raise the Bar community service event.
The Minneapolis congressman visited Guantanamo Thursday on a whirlwind trip arranged only this week. Another congressman, U.S. Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), also toured the camp at the invitation of Defense Department officials.
In his 45-minute talk, Ellison said that the nation's security interests are vital but that they must be balanced with a steadfast commitment to human rights.
Ellison said he found conditions at Guantanamo comparable to those that might be found at the state prison in Oak Park Heights. Detainees have access to medical facilities, are well fed and get at least two hours of recreation each day. He didn't see any thumbscrews or hear any howling, he said.
"But what I did see was a whole lot of people who have no process to change the condition that they're in," he said.
Ellison said he asked to speak to some prisoners, particularly a Sudanese reporter for Al-Jazeera, but was refused. Attorneys representing some of the men being held at Guantanamo have told him that they're not able to establish privileged relationships with their clients, he said.
Ellison said he's not certain that he still wants Guantanamo to be closed, but he said the facility should be more open to inspection and that the U.S. guarantee basic procedural rights that will separate those guilty of heinous crimes from those being held simply because they may have useful information.
"I'm very concerned about what we don't know ... this level of secrecy is problematic," he said.
Kevin Duchschere • 612-673-4455
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