This post by Amy Ephron [1] succinctly sums up a horrible situation:
There are so many things that are wrong with Guantanamo, it’s hard to know where to begin. It’s a complicated issue and it’s a bit like defending the wrong side. Unless you look at it from the human rights angle, as a 6th Amendment issue, not to mention the Geneva Convention… Or simply from the point of view of, “We’re going to lock you up forever, we’re never going to charge you with anything, no one in your family will ever know what happened to you, you’ll never any contact with the outside world again but we’re going to give you prozac, so, you won’t mind.”
Of course, you wouldn’t know of any problems from the official U.S. government website regarding Guantanamo [2]. In that fine newspaper, this is the only hint of what’s really going on out at the “naval base”:
During the past year Naval Base Guantanamo Bay has become the host to the Detainee Mission of the War on Terrorism following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
[Emphasis added]. How much does anyone from the government care about what really goes on in Guantanamo and when? Not enough to even update the official Guantanamo website. Well, actually, that’s not accurate. The June 9, 2006 edition of the Guantanamo Bay Gazette reports [3] a recent event: that several of the people who run Guantanamo voluntarily lost weight as part of a weight loss contest. Good for them!
Oh, yeah. And we’ve got several dead prisoners this week. Let’s see if those deaths show up in the next edition of the Guantanamo Bay Gazette.
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