today marks DAY 100 for Guantanamo hunger strike, Americans stand up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qufyfE-I9GA

"It's been exactly one hundred days since detainees at Guantanamo Bay camp started their hunger strike. The official number of inmates refusing food has been increasing on an almost daily basis and has reached at least one hundred

Around thirty hunger-strikers are being subjected to force-feeding a controversial tactic condemned by the UN and the international medical community as inhumane. And all those numbers are only likely to grow.

Because what started as a strike against mistreatment has turned into a battle against indefinite detention and Washington's broken promises to close the prison at the center of America's War on Terror."

My hats off to the courage these men are showing in that nasty torture centre! shame on Obama....

Shouldn't they be dead already since about 2 months?themajormayor

Shouldn't they be dead already since about 2 months?themajormayor

I understand.

Why do you care what the west does?DroidPhysX

Why do you care what the west does?DroidPhysX

[QUOTE="themajormayor"]Shouldn't they be dead already since about 2 months?ferrari2001

i can't find my violin. :(

100 days? Jesus. 

Wait.  Although he vowed to close Gitmo, did he promise to free the detainees?  I thought the plan was to close Gitmo, but move the detainees to a facility in Illinois.

If so, what's the difference really, other than geography?

Wait.  Although he vowed to close Gitmo, did he promise to free the detainees?  I thought the plan was to close Gitmo, but move the detainees to a facility in Illinois.

If so, what's the difference really, other than geography?

VoodooHak

i can't find my violin. :(

VaguelyTagged

Don't worry, I brought one...:(

I didn't even know it was possible to go 100 days without food. Wish I could go even a day or two and lose some weight. I admire their impulse control.

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meh

[QUOTE="VoodooHak"]

Wait.  Although he vowed to close Gitmo, did he promise to free the detainees?  I thought the plan was to close Gitmo, but move the detainees to a facility in Illinois.

If so, what's the difference really, other than geography?

thebest31406

Due process? Are they US citizens?

[QUOTE="VoodooHak"]

Wait.  Although he vowed to close Gitmo, did he promise to free the detainees?  I thought the plan was to close Gitmo, but move the detainees to a facility in Illinois.

If so, what's the difference really, other than geography?

thebest31406

[QUOTE="thebest31406"][QUOTE="VoodooHak"]

Wait.  Although he vowed to close Gitmo, did he promise to free the detainees?  I thought the plan was to close Gitmo, but move the detainees to a facility in Illinois.

If so, what's the difference really, other than geography?

VoodooHak

Due process? Are they US citizens?

[QUOTE="thebest31406"][QUOTE="VoodooHak"] Probably not but what difference does that make?[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"][QUOTE="thebest31406"][QUOTE="VoodooHak"]

Wait.  Although he vowed to close Gitmo, did he promise to free the detainees?  I thought the plan was to close Gitmo, but move the detainees to a facility in Illinois.

If so, what's the difference really, other than geography?

VoodooHak

[QUOTE="thebest31406"] Take a history course. Due process is older than the United States; goes all the way back to the Magna Carta andit happens to be something that non-hypocrites believe in as just a general practice, not a legal privilege for just US citizens. LJS9502_basic

Take a history course. Due process is older than the United States; goes all the way back to the Magna Carta and it happens to be something that non-hypocrites believe in as just a general practice, not a legal privilege for just US citizens.

thebest31406

Just believing in it does not make it law

[QUOTE="thebest31406"]Yeah that doesn't mean shit dude. Each government sets it's own laws. Since we're talking about the US...US law apply. Shouldn't take an Einstein to figure that out.....LJS9502_basic

[QUOTE="thebest31406"]

Take a history course. Due process is older than the United States; goes all the way back to the Magna Carta and it happens to be something that non-hypocrites believe in as just a general practice, not a legal privilege for just US citizens.

lostrib

Just believing in it does not make it law

 Segregation was the law. Anti-interracial relations was the law. Anti-sodomy was the law. See where I'm going with this?thebest31406

Yes you feel that denying people due process is wrong. 

[QUOTE="thebest31406"]

 Segregation was the law. Anti-interracial relations was the law. Anti-sodomy was the law. See where I'm going with this?lostrib

Yes you feel that denying people due process is wrong. 

OP doesn't give a flying fvck about the detainees he's just posting this to try and troll Americans.

I thought the plan was to close Gitmo, but move the detainees to a facility in Illinois. If so, what's the difference really, other than geography?VoodooHak

Pretty divided in this.

In one direction, true justice should be served, and these men should be brough to trial. Make these people and their actions known. Why hide something unless you have something to hide.

The opposite direction, these men found their way into this prison. What terrible, dark circles must they have been a part of? Maybe no sympathy should be spared.

At the end of the day, I would have to say I'm 60/40 towards trial.

InEMplease

Based on "past incidents" the US has been caught with, such as Abu Ghraib, I wouldn't be shocked to find that there were a significantly large number of people who are innocent and/or have absolutely no evidence to begin with to hold them..

Gitmo is tough, the president probably thought it would be easy, but with no where else to put these prisoners, it has to stay open. It's kinda like the drone program. Yes, it's not the best option in the universe, but the alternative is to ignore possible threats to national security. I'm just glad I don't have to make these damned if you do, damned if you don't choices. 

Gitmo is tough, the president probably thought it would be easy, but with no where else to put these prisoners, it has to stay open. It's kinda like the drone program. Yes, it's not the best option in the universe, but the alternative is to ignore possible threats to national security. I'm just glad I don't have to make these damned if you do, damned if you don't choices.

Yusuke420

... Of course there are other places to put the prisoners.. We have maximum security prisons all over the country.. We jail more people then China for crying out loud..

[QUOTE="Yusuke420"]

Gitmo is tough, the president probably thought it would be easy, but with no where else to put these prisoners, it has to stay open. It's kinda like the drone program. Yes, it's not the best option in the universe, but the alternative is to ignore possible threats to national security. I'm just glad I don't have to make these damned if you do, damned if you don't choices.

sSubZerOo

... Of course there are other places to put the prisoners.. We have maximum security prisons all over the country.. We jail more people then China for crying out loud..

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]

[QUOTE="Yusuke420"]

Gitmo is tough, the president probably thought it would be easy, but with no where else to put these prisoners, it has to stay open. It's kinda like the drone program. Yes, it's not the best option in the universe, but the alternative is to ignore possible threats to national security. I'm just glad I don't have to make these damned if you do, damned if you don't choices.

Yusuke420

... Of course there are other places to put the prisoners.. We have maximum security prisons all over the country.. We jail more people then China for crying out loud..

:| Yep uh huh because sending them to a maximum security prison automatically means they are put in general public of the prison population :roll:.. Where the hell do you think Charlie Manson, dangerous gang members and other such people are put? Because it sure as hell isn't general populace.

So you want to isolate them in various super max prisons across the country? How does that do anything to change their situation? It's the exact same thing it is now. 

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"][QUOTE="thebest31406"] Take a history course. Due process is older than the United States; goes all the way back to the Magna Carta andit happens to be something that non-hypocrites believe in as just a general practice, not a legal privilege for just US citizens. thebest31406

Their choice.....LJS9502_basic

It's probably better than the alternative.

OP just mad some of his family is in there.FrostyPhantasm

[QUOTE="FrostyPhantasm"]OP just mad some of his family is in there.GrayF0X786

why?

I love how people seem to assume that the prisoners in Gitmo are really innocent....