Comments on: Seven Years of Guantánamo, Seven Years of Torture and Lies

By: Connie L. Nash

Connie L. Nash — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:16:23 +0000

Here is the link to the item on the Coalition of 4 Human Rights groups who are working steadfastly together to stop the detaining and abuse of Child Soldiers.

http://oneheartforpeace.blogspot.com/2009/01/human-rights-coalition-to-stop-use-of.html

In reference to the comments above mine, whether we are agnostic, atheist, Buddhist, pagan, Christian, Jewish, Muslim of whatever…

The Golden Rule stands….

Do unto others (& their children, their spouse, their mother, their father, their brother, their land, their nation, their generation) as you would have them do likewise to you…

Connie

By: Connie L. Nash

Connie L. Nash — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:45:12 +0000

See just posted

Human Rights Coalition (including Amnesty, ACLU) to stop the detention & abuse of Child Soldiers –refers particularly to GTMO & Omar Khadr who’s case is scheduled to be addressed soon….

Just posted on oneheartforpeace weblog

By: Dan V.

Dan V. — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:42:47 +0000

Superb article, Andy. Telling it like it is, without hyperbole. If only more people would listen.

By: Gary Baumgarten

Gary Baumgarten — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:36:30 +0000

Blogger and human rights activist David Swanson will be my guest on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com at 5 PM New York time Wednesday January 14 to discuss president-elect Obama’s pledge to close Guantanamo Bay and whether the U.S. human rights policies will improve under the new administration.

To talk to Swanson please go to http://www.garybaumgarten.com and click on the Join The Chat Room button.

Thanks,

Gary

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:26:08 +0000

Torture is worse than useless for extracting information because people spout any old crap and you go on wild goose chases.

Torture is good for obtaining confessions for show trials.

Torture is good for controlling the masses. If you have a good intelligence network it discourages people joining the rebels. If you have a bad intelligence network (so people get tortured whatever they do) then it encourages an insurgency.

Legally, the US cannot leave Iraq until it has a stable gov’t that can provide essential services. Keep the insurgency fuelled and you don’t have to leave. Cheney wants the US there until the oil runs out.

By: Frances Madeson

Frances Madeson — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:38:30 +0000

What are worms doing in a can in the first place?

By: Vigilante

Vigilante — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:27:48 +0000

OK, Let’s open this can of worms.

What if there was an enduring need for indefinite custody of certain perps (or suspected perps) of international terrorist stripe.

What if the issue of Gitmo could be separated out from the issue of rendition and torture?

What if Gitmo could be turned into some kind of resort-like holding cell, transparent to the IRC, staffed by international guards?

What then?

Why, Pakistanis, Indonesians and even Columbians could send their bad guys off to Gitmo, confident that they would not be sprung by local militias.

If there were such a secure sure-fire international bank for felons, it might mean that a dent could be made in capital punishment throughout the world..

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:26:10 +0000

Ken, you’re entitled to your opinion, of course, but why post a comment about my article when you clearly haven’t read a word that I wrote?
Just wondering …

By: Ken H

Ken H — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:52:04 +0000

Keep them all locked up and throw away the key! You people live in a dream world. These people will kill you given the chance! Wake up to the real world before its to late.

By: Frances Madeson

Frances Madeson — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:09:36 +0000

I think of Anne Frank who died not of xylon b in Auschvitz but of typhus in detention in Bergen-Belsen. If we could travel back in time is there anything we would not have done to liberate her?