A shade under ten years ago I blogged
this blog entry, a horrific list of neglect
and American state legal avoidance.
Who realises that Guantanamo Bay
was opened 21 years ago yesterday?
Who knew that in that prison
America imprisoned 780 Muslim men,
and not one person of any other faith or gender?
Who knew that nine prisoners died on the site?
Who knew that by detaining them
as 'unlawful combatants' the Bush
administration gave itself exemptions
from all known conventions
on the treatment of combatants in war?
Who realises that even if the last three
living 'unlawful combatants' there were released today,
and the prison camp was empty apart from the staff
then because the camp was created in a legal vacuum,
where so many laws were avoided in it's creation,
the legal process for closing the site down,
and returning it to the Cuban government,
and ending the stain on the American legal system,
would cost more in lawyers fees than it had
when it held prisoners, and be that protracted
that President Joe Biden would be a centenarian
before the process was complete?
Well you know now.....
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