U.S. concentration camps

So, Obama will close Guantanamo torture camp and Abu Ghraib in Iraq is now humane prison... Like nothing ever happened. Well that is so cute... but it's WRONG!!! Closing these camps is just not enough! More than 600 prisoners have been kept in Guantanamo Bay Concentration camp in small cages for years. They are kept there, with no charges against them, without access to the courts to challenge their confinement. The United States government illegally occupies that part of Cuba's territory. It is held under a lease negotiated between Cuba and the U.S., which gave the United States the right to use Guantanamo Bay "exclusively as coaling or naval stations, and for no other purpose." Fidel Castro, who calls the Guantanamo base "a dagger plunged into the heart of Cuban soil," refuses to cash the rent checks the U.S. government sends annually. He says: "An elemental sense of dignity and absolute disagreement with what happens in that portion of our national territory has prevented Cuba from cashing those checks." The United States, according to President Castro, has transformed Guantanamo base into a "horrible prison, one that bears no difference with the Nazi concentration camps." Australian lawyer Richard Bourke asserted on ABC Radio that prisoners had been subjected to "good old-fashioned torture, as people would have understood it in the Dark Ages." The Red Cross reported that "the US authorities have placed the internees in Guantanamo beyond the law. This means that, after more than eighteen months of captivity, the internees still have no idea about their fate, and no means of recourse through any legal mechanism... Barack Obama has ordered the closure of the Guantanamo Bay torture camp. He also ordered that all prisoners still in Guantanamo be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention.

The horrors of Abu Ghraib. I can think of no better recruiting boost for Al Quaeda than prisons like Abu Ghraib. During the time of Saddam Hussein’s rule, Abu Ghraib, located in a predominantly Sunni Muslim neighborhood on the western outskirts of Baghdad, was notorious for torture carried out by the regime. After the American invasion, it changed hands, but served essentially the same purpose. It became a holding center for opponents of the American occupation and others swept up in arbitrary mass-arrests of Iraqi civilians. In the fall of 2003, with opposition to American forces intensifying, more "aggressive" interrogation techniques were introduced into the prison, under the direction of top American military and political officials. It was at that time that the notorious photographs and videos of torture were taken, and since the initial photographs were released in 2004, Abu Ghraib has become, for masses of people around the world, a symbol of the brutality and ruthlessness of the American military.

What about that bitch (Infamous Lynndie England) and a motherfucker smiling and pointing their thumbs up in those photos? You know, one of the (so called), Christian soldiers sent by George Bush & Co from the United States — supposedly to set the poor Iraqi people free from their sufferings under Saddam? What happened to them? That's called American justice.

So the pictures taken in German concentration camps remind us of American crimes in our day? Well, we don’t want to compare numbers. Every nation has a few bad boys who get carried away once in a while, doesn’t it? In a civilised world the rules of law should be applied equally. So far, the ‘international community’ has failed to hold those responsible for war crimes against the Iraqi people accountable for their crimes. Just remaining in Iraq, breathing its air, is a war crime! Sadly, despite the overwhelming evidence, those who are responsible for these international crimes have been either promoted to higher positions or re-elected to high office. What about their crimes in Afghanistan? What about U.S. crimes against people of Serbia? What about camps that World never heard of (like Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo)? Various countries have signed agreements with the U.S. not to prosecute Americans for war crimes at all. Just to make sure...