Comments on: Uighur Protest In Guantánamo: Photos http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/06/06/uighur-protest-in-guantanamo-photos/ Author & journalist Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:47:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: ellen sweets http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/06/06/uighur-protest-in-guantanamo-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-39470 ellen sweets Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:44:02 +0000 http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/?p=3239#comment-39470 there is something achingly awful about seeing our country, a nation that ostensibly espouses freedom, the dignity of man, the right to be judged by a jury of one's peers, the right to a speedy trial, the expectation of being innocent untl provden guilty -- to see all of this vaporize in a cloud of irresponsible political hysteria. our guantanamo position is sickening. i am profoundly disappointed in this administration for being as goofy as the preceding one. just plain goofy. i echo those who contend that if these prisoners were not radicals before, they have earned the right to be now. 9/11 didn't cause this abdication of democratic principles. goofy decision-making did. there is something achingly awful about seeing our country, a nation that ostensibly espouses freedom, the dignity of man, the right to be judged by a jury of one’s peers, the right to a speedy trial, the expectation of being innocent untl provden guilty — to see all of this vaporize in a cloud of irresponsible political hysteria. our guantanamo position is sickening. i am profoundly disappointed in this administration for being as goofy as the preceding one. just plain goofy. i echo those who contend that if these prisoners were not radicals before, they have earned the right to be now. 9/11 didn’t cause this abdication of democratic principles. goofy decision-making did.

]]> By: Frances Madeson http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/06/06/uighur-protest-in-guantanamo-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-39267 Frances Madeson Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:20:43 +0000 http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/?p=3239#comment-39267 "We need to freedom." There's something endearing about freedom as a verb. I have freedomed; I will freedom. You have freedomed; you will freedom. He freedomed; he will freedom. She freedomed; she will freedom. They freedomed; they will freedom. They will! “We need to freedom.”

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]]> By: Andy Worthington http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/06/06/uighur-protest-in-guantanamo-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-39266 Andy Worthington Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:33:55 +0000 http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/?p=3239#comment-39266 There's a great editorial about the Uighurs in the Washington Post today: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060503484.html This is the final paragraph: "Mr. Obama did not create the mess that is the Guantanamo prison, but the mess is now his to clean up. If he does not act soon to grant at least some Uighurs a home in the United States, then the Supreme Court should step in to determine whether the judicial branch has any legitimate role to play in this extraordinary and extraordinarily disturbing matter. One day of wrongful imprisonment is unfortunate; years of knowingly wrongful incarceration is an abomination that cannot be tolerated if the rule of law and justice are to have any meaning." There’s a great editorial about the Uighurs in the Washington Post today:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060503484.html

This is the final paragraph:

“Mr. Obama did not create the mess that is the Guantanamo prison, but the mess is now his to clean up. If he does not act soon to grant at least some Uighurs a home in the United States, then the Supreme Court should step in to determine whether the judicial branch has any legitimate role to play in this extraordinary and extraordinarily disturbing matter. One day of wrongful imprisonment is unfortunate; years of knowingly wrongful incarceration is an abomination that cannot be tolerated if the rule of law and justice are to have any meaning.”

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