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Urgent: Close Guantanamo prison

samedi 19 janvier 2019 à 01:00

Everyone: call for closing the Guantanamo prison and releasing the prisoners, in particular Toffiq al-Bihani. Here is what I said.

I urge you to immediately transfer Toffiq al-Bihani, who has been imprisoned without charges by the US since 2003, and apologize to him for our country's shameful act of imprisoning him without trial. He also deserves compensation in the form of providing his needs for life as a free man for the rest of his life.

I urge you also to close the Guantanamo prison and put an end to the various unjust Guantanamo-linked practices including imprisonment without trial, unfair kangaroo courts, and torture. And anything else that is unworthy of our country and has to pain the heart of Americans that love their country.

Some of the prisoners in Guantanamo may have committed great crimes. They have also suffered great crimes, including 17 years in prison without a fair trial, and torture. That is surely punishment enough; we have to right to commit crimes against them in the name of punishing them even more. They can't inspire terrorism more outside than they do now in Guantanamo. Most of them won't even try. If any of them gets involved in future terrorism, he will be one more among thousands — making little difference — and we could catch him and prosecute him honestly next time.

Those responsible for torture and enforced disappearance must be brought to justice in fair trial without recourse to the death penalty.

Misusing the word clown

vendredi 18 janvier 2019 à 01:00

A clown asks that we not use the word "clown" to refer to the incompetent.

Drone assassination rules

vendredi 18 janvier 2019 à 01:00

The bully has given the CIA much looser rules for drone assassinations, building on what Obama permitted.

Airbnb and housing prices

vendredi 18 janvier 2019 à 01:00

Airbnb increases the price of houses — and the rent for a place to live.

Facebook Amazon deal

vendredi 18 janvier 2019 à 01:00

Facebook made a secret deal with Amazon to give Amazon access to Facebook's data about users. A plague on both of those companies!