Amnesty International has called Guantanamo the "gulag of our time"?
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I think that they are 100% correct!
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This is what the Washington Post says:\n\nA U.N. anti-torture panel today issued a rebuke of Bush administration counter-terrorism policies today, calling for the closing of the Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba and a halt to the transfer of suspected terrorists to countries where they may face torture.\n\n...\n\nThe U.N. committee, made up of nine experts, urged the Bush administration to establish a federal law criminalizing torture and to eliminate some of its most controversial interrogation techniques, including sexual humiliation, the use of dogs to induce fear and "water boarding," a practice that involves simulating the sensation of near-drowning.
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I hope this helps, I am suprised at how many answers you got refusing to even look anything up! http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport
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Amnesty International.\nhttp://www.amnesty.org/
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Yes. These people are being denied their freedom but are charged with no crime. Sounds UnAmerican to me.
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Good question!!!  Weren't we always taught that it was the radical dictatorships where people got tortured and had no rights?
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It should be obvious, considering the fact that the U.S. govt. often distorts the truth to shift blame or to rationalize actions such as "interrogation". According to the United Nations view on what defines "torture", the U.S. has clearly crossed the threshold between interrogation and torture. Examples: Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and even during the Vietnam War.
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Outcry? What, from our liberal media? No, to them torture is having women's underwear on your head or being made to stand naked and have your picture taken. That's the liberal idea of torture.\n\nThe media doesn't want to focus on this because it might strengthen our resolve to kick some terrorist butt. It might remind the general public what animals the terrorists are. The media won't even call them terrorists - they're "insurgents" or some other such namby-pamby term.\n\nThey're terrorists - ISLAMIC TERRORISTS! And they're animals. If we don't stop them over there, they will come here and show us what they really think of our freedom.
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Dont forget to become a muslim terrrorist and try to kill one of our soldiers and they will put you up in a nice so called prison with lemon chicken on the menu,prayer rugs and the quaran courtesy of the us govt and then get liberal attorneys and the ACLU fighting for your non us citizen rights.Sickening isnt it?I dont think too many caught your sarcasim.
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You make a very good point.  Check out the new "the America I believe in" campaign recently lanched by Amnesty International http://believe.amnestyusa.org   AI has launched this new campaign to restore our traditional American values of justice, rule of law, and human dignity.   It even provides simple actions you can take, and ways to raise awareness in your community.\n\nThe America we believe in... leads the world in human rights\nThe America we believe in... does not torture people\nThe America we believe in... does not run secret prisons\nThe America we believe in... would shut down Guantanamo Bay
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As an American, it disgusts me. Not so much that people who are actually guilty of the crimes for which they have been accused are at Guantanamo, but because of the number of people who i'm sure AREN'T guilty and are being held there, without any charges being brought against them. \n\nI understand that a number of these people are evil. I understand that they want to murder me, and those I love, simply because i'm an American. I understand how horrible it is. But I also understand the nation that our Founding Fathers created. And their reasons for doing so. These men need to be charged, or let go. They should get their day in court. The ones who may NOT be guilty deserve that. \n\nAs an American, I like to look to our Founding Fathers for an example. They are the spirit of the United States of America. These men went to war, a war they knew they could very well die in and lose, for liberty. For freedom. For basic FAIRNESS. They were more afraid of living with no rights, living with injustice then they were of death. \n\nIt makes me ask myself, what's wrong with Americans these days? Are we so afraid of death that we are willing to give up what MAKES us American. just to gain a few more breaths on this Earth? I'm more afraid of what our own government can do if given too much power then I am of what any al qaeda could ever hope to do. A terrorist can kill me, but the loss of our spirit, the spirit of freedom and fairness, would break me.\n\nDeath doesn't scare me as much as the thought of what kind of "America" is going to be left for my daughter, and future grandchildren, if we keep going down this dark road Bush has led us down. History has proven where this road leads. And it isn't to happiness.
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It is atrocious to jail people without a trial, a lawyer or even one phone call; how can the US say that they are a "free" country?\n\nI am completely fine with locking up criminals but there has to be a process and evidence or the US just becomes a dictatorship.\n\n\n\nWe can not appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.\nCarl von Ossietzky
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Guatanamo Bay should be shut down immediately.  It is illegal and it is immoral.\n\nWe know for a fact people are being tortured there, thats not even debatable. \n\nIt is not justified because the people we tortured not only did not give up any information about any hypothetical, extremely low probability scenario of a "ticking bomb".  \n\nRead the documents recently released, many of these people were simply swooped up in dragnet style raids by ignorant people who didn't know what they were looking for in the first place, total incompetance. \n\nAlso, consider how the use of torture of innocents playes out in the theater of war.  It is used as a psychological weapon on people, just like good cop bad cop, they get people to inform (or they thought they would, they didn't) on supposed Taliban, or Osama, or insurgents, it all was a botch... a completely asanine idea.  Now we have people there for years without a lawyer, without due process, without rights being tortured.  The reason we signed on to many treaties against such measures is to create a standard of humanity.  This war should let you know where our Great Leader (the decider) and his confused minions stand on human rights and on morality.  They are not Christians, and that is what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Bushie in the letter.
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2000, when the Supreme Court decided that a fair and accurate recount must be stopped. Read the dissents in that case (see link below).\n\nAnd I think Mr.Danger's title is more accurate, though I prefer "Commander in Sheik". Captures the flavor better.\n\nYou've hit the real problem though. Hypocrisy. This administration would never tolerate another country doing what they claim is justified. \n\nRegardless of whether we like North Korea or Iran or not, if Germany or England or Brazil tried to tell the US that it could not engage in particular research or test weapons in international waters, the US would tell them to go bleep themselves. And then defend their rights with force.\n\nAnd every other country that has invaded another sovereign nation because they didn't like the way things were being handled has been denounced as tyrants. But it's alright for the US to do it?\n\nAnd the US denounces other countries (well, they used to last decade) for torturing people or violating civil rights. But the current administration can ignore not only its own Constitution but many international treaties (signed and ratified), because it feels like it?\n\nHypocrisy has always bothered me. And the current US administration is the best case for why in at least the last century.
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WE are a signatory nation in the Geneva Conventions, and reading them, they apply not just to us, but anybody we fight against...pretty much so long as they openly carry a weapon and shoot at us.  Rounding up the local apple salesman of some Afghan village because the local peach salesman took $20 to tip off the local police does NOT make him a terrorist.  It makes us look very stupid for holding him for 4 years.\n\nThough I'm sure there's 3 or 4 really dangerous guys in Gitmo...TRIAL THEM and LOCK THEM UP FOR REAL.  That's how we work, that's how we've always work.  That's what the Bill of Rights says...those first 10 are INALIENABLE RIGHTS.  Rights we can't take away or grant because they inherently exist for ALL HUMAN BEINGS.\n\nTorturing ANYONE and holding ANYONE without trial is a massive violation to our Constitution.  Bush WILL be in handcuffs for this sooner or later.
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it's already being done.  at least 44 suspects have died while in the tender mercies of our army prisons.  and that's just the ones we know about.  who knows how many have been torured to death in those secret renditions to torture prone allied countries?
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First secret prisons, maybe for terrorest who are arrested outside the US,  there are no civil rights people who are not american citizens outside the US.  Only those rights of the Geneva Convenction, (human rights)\n\nWe are trying to judge military prisons or prisioners of war under the wrong idea of what they are, they do not, never did get consititional rights.\n\nEven in WWII, the US took away the constitutional rightrs of Japanise americans and put them in camps and they lost thier property in the US during this time.\n\nAnd no people are not spying on liberals, why they tell more than they know to start with.  The only spying is to track and trace telephone calls of posible terroest links ( and emails and regular mail)  \n\nMerely alot of issues taken out of context by the opposing public party that cares little about destroying our war effort if they can win an election.