Genocide Joe Biden was the VP of the president who was going to close Guantanamo, Day 1. Twelve years later, as President, he mumbled something about closing it some day. How’s that going? Thirty men still imprisoned there, most without charges. Sixteen of those “cleared” for release years ago, still there.
Now, Democracy Now reports, “the Biden administration is reportedly considering housing Haitians in Guantánamo Bay if there is an influx of migrants,” recalling the outrage of the 1980s when Haitians were imprisoned there due to prejudice related to HIV, kept in dirt-floor shacks.
Why do we keep coming back to the ongoing crimes of the U.S. at Guantanamo?
Start here: Not even those accused of the worst war crimes – billionaire arms dealers, leaders who organize genocide and starvation – should be held without charge, deprived of due process. The U.S. torture prison, to date, has held 779 men from the Muslim diaspora, very few of whom have even been criminally charged; and thousands of Haitian citizens treated as criminals for escaping the horror created by European and U.S. exploitation of their country.
We continue to share Andy Worthington’s series about the “cleared” prisoners: Held for 600 Days Since Being Approved for Release from Guantánamo: Khaled Qassim, a Talented Artist.
- From our friends Rebecca McKean & Alan Winson of Bar Crawl Radio: We Are Guantánamo: 7 Voices – Season 10, Ep. 217 | Friday, March 8, 2024 – in other words – you and I – all of us identifying as “American” are complicit insofar as the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp remains an active U.S. military and illegal entity – it belongs to us. Debra is one of the seven who testify during this broadcast.
Attention NYC area friends: There are a limited number of tickets offered by the “I Am Gitmo” producers to NYC activists for the screening this Saturday evening March 16 at 9:10 pm at the Socially Relevant Film Festival at Cinema Village in Manhattan. If you would like 1-2 tickets please fill out this form.
