and our awful history repeats itself ...

 For a time at Guantanamo we held detainees in cages.  You can go on line and find photos.

Now we know that people held by our current government in a detention facility in Florida were also held in cages. You can read/hear more

here.

I just want to point out one difference between the abhorrent treatment of the men at Guantanamo and the similarly abhorrent treatment of people in Florida at "alligator alcatraz." The people  in Florida supposedly had (I say Had because the place was closed down recently) constitutional protections because they were here in the U.S. of A.  Many of the arguments relating to Guantanamo had to do with the fact that the men were held offshore and not in the U.S.. We had to fight for whatever rights those men might be entitled to at the offshore gulag. The people held in Florida should have had the protection of our constitution.

Oh, and yesterday was "constitution day."

So much for that.

In other news...

 Individuals from Somali have been kidnapped by my government and instead of being sent back home, as they were told, they are being held at Guantanamo.

read more here.

Maybe a "detention" review for Abu Zubaydah

 

You can read more about this unfortunate man in this blog. He was tortured over a period of months. Water boarded countless times. Eventually the government acknowledged that he was a nobody in the "war on terror". Yet he is still held 25 years now. No charges have ever been lodged against him and never will. I doubt that the military will do the right thing. Especially during this awful time in my government.

That said:

After 20 years at Guantanamo without charges, alleged Bin Laden associate AbuZubaydah faces a rare detention review, exposing the secrecy surrounding post-9/11military justice.

Once portrayed as a senior Al Qaeda figure, Zubaydah was tortured at CIA black sites,left permanently injured and still never charged, raising questions about U.S.accountability.

His lawyers argue he no longer poses a threat and should be transferred under strictmonitoring, as a review board weighs whether indefinite detention can still be justified.

read more here. (sorry I do not have a free link!).