Comments on: ACLU podcast: Andy Worthington discusses Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:40:54 +0000

Thanks, Jerry, Frances and Connie.
I’m glad you’re watching my back, Jerry, and Frances, the eye of the world could well be as you so poetically describe — or the cataracts that we in the West ignore, or Omar Khadr’s shrapnel-damaged eye, or the eye that Omar Deghayes lost during an assault by an ERF team in Guantanamo.

By: Connie L. Nash

Connie L. Nash — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:56:15 +0000

How timely for you, Andy, to be featured on the ACLU podcast! Any who wish to continue to press for a Special (independent) Prosecutor can do so quite easily by signing the letter offered on the national ACLU dot org website. (Of course, this need is all the greater what with the memos finally out – first time in history? Yet with our US leaders offering protection for the perpetrators)

Spokesman for Cageprisoners, Moazzam Begg, said of the publication (of the formerly secret CIA Memos)

“The decision not to prosecute torturers is not only disappointing but it is the projection of illegality which most people would have thought the US administration would have recognised. The lessons from Nuremberg clearly have not been applied and, whilst the belated admission that the previous US administration sanctioned and practiced torture is welcome, prosecuting those responsible is an international obligation that remains unfulfilled.”

By: Connie L. Nash

Connie L. Nash — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:16:55 +0000

The CIA Memos Just Revealed

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/politics/20090416_memos.pdf

Find the best I’ve seen in terms of commentary on World Can’t Wait by Debra Sweet or go to oneheartforpeace dot blogspot dot com

All your documented torture & harassment will surely come back to haunt the West & the treatment of our own military detained by other countries, innocent or not, unless the Obama administration will be pressured to prosecute!

By: Frances Madeson

Frances Madeson — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:54:40 +0000

Predators prey on the weak–the lamb before the ewe, the ewe before the ram–and shatter everyone’s heart in the process.

I don’t know about the eye of the world, Andy. Is it shut sometimes? Does it tear? Get infected? Spasm? Cloud over? Simply refuse to see? Refuse to transmit the messages it does see to the mind like a malfunctioning camera? Have pirates covered it with a patch?

In 1973, when I was visiting wounded soldiers in Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, there was one boy whose eyes had been scorched by sand in an artillery blast in the Sinai. So much sand had entered his eyes in the nano-second before he reflexively closed them that months later the grains were still working their way out. He could still see, and we were all grateful for that, but only through a chronic haze of saline and grit.

Was his the eye of the world?

By: Jerry Northington

Jerry Northington — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:14:05 +0000

Thanks as always, Andy, for your continuing hard work. Jonathan was right in his description of you as “an important chronicler and commentator.” Where else would we turn for this continuing information?

Keep up the good work and many of us will watch your back.

Peace.