Happy Birthday, Guantanamo! Many more to come?
Today marks 10-years since American authorities began detaining enemy combatants and other prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. A decade since the doors opened, why are people still held there, even after Obama vowed to close the facility?“We’re hypocrites,” Jason Leopold of TruthOut.org told RT. President Barack Obama said time and time again both during his campaign and during the early days of his administration that he would close down Guantanamo after a series of human rights scandals rocked the institution. Obama went on the record to say he would restore habeas corpus in the country, reminded Leopold, but “the administration has actually fought every habeas corpus case that has appeared in a DC courtroom,” he added.
“We’re very good at preaching but not practicing what we’re preaching.”.... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/guantanamo-obama-leopold-ten-325/
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sampung taon na pala ang guantanamo. 'god bless america!'10 years of the best show of the bald eagle's respect for democratic ideals and human rights...in the brains of the zzzzzzzombies de tuta de kalbong agila, that is. lol.
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