There are different layers to the answer of why we won’t shut up about closing the U.S. torture camp at Guantanamo:
- on the basis of morality, holding people outside the law is utterly immoral.
- on the grounds of the rights of human beings, the prison gets a score of zero.
Guantanamo has set a precedent that the most powerful state and military can get away with depriving people of their rights, torture them and face no consequences; rather, such crimes enforce the invincibility of the empire.
