Tear It Down? Whistleblower Says Time to Bulldoze Gitmo

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/22/One_Year_Counting_When_Will_Guantanamo_Close

Guantanamo whistleblower Stephen Abraham defends the White House's proposal to move Gitmo detainees to the Thomson Correctional Facility in rural northwestern Illinois and calls for a public demolition of the Guantanamo Bay detainment facility. "It's not something we should do subtly," he says.

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January 22, 2010 marks President Obama's self-imposed deadline for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, which he set by Executive Order one year earlier, on his second day in office.

This discussion examines the obstacles that are preventing President Obama from fulfilling his promise, when and how Guantanamo is likely to close, and the impact of the attempted Christmas Day airline bombing on the politics of closing the detention facility.

The discussion also illuminates why it is essential that America comply with the rule of law as it continues its efforts to close Guantanamo. - Open Society Institute

Stephen Abraham is an American lawyer and officer in the United States Army Reserve. He is notable because he is the first officer who served with the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants to publicly criticize the operations of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals.

His affidavit was key to the United States Supreme Court decision to hear petitions from Guantanamo detainees regarding their detention, and the subsequent decision (Boumediene v. Bush, 2008) that Guantanamo detainees have Habeas rights.

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[TheGodlessGuitarist]

Yeay to Guantanamo day! tear it down!

[JasonMelancon]

Another good reason to bulldoze Guantanamo is that it will open up the rest of the island to development by its citizens. Currently Guantanamo virtually pinches off the eastern tip of Cuba from the rest, and occupies a major port.

[freidarulz]

another big story the elected president told - we all had great hopes of this country making things right - oops! Fooled again - its worse now! Someday you too will be in a Gitmo and then we will all see how this is wrong. Levin and McCain wrote the bill today. We are serfs and have no chance of escaping the NWO fate...now we know what the body bags are for.

[ACLTony]

@keldius - Yes, sadly many civilians died, HOWEVER, where do you get your figures from? Millions of women and children were not killed by the U.S. Totally false. Every life is precious but the numbers of "women and children" accidentally killed as the result of US actions in Iraq and Afghanistan number in the hundreds. Even the Iraqi and Afghanistan governments confrim this. Don't forget the hundreds of thousands of middle east citizens that American soldiers have saved and helped.

[bush1tman]

@keldius Gitmo in Japan. We could throw Indonesians like Obama in there. Cool .

[keldius]

@bush1tman oh man it's true ... well they are not japanese it's would be worse over there almost everyone has cellphone

[bush1tman]

@keldius You don't want mass deaths on your hands do you? haha

[keldius]

@variablast lol I didn't said we were nigger but some of them were actual foreigner working on american soil iin economy I include muslims as well

[keldius]

@Krifko USA are not invincible that everyone know it of course small "terrorist attack" can't take USA down

but still USA can't take the world down neither(without having repercussion on his own territory or interest for the matters )

[keldius]

@variablast approx 3000 "american" ( I put it between coma because not everyone was actually american )

and the USA went at war in Iraq and afghanistan killing MILLION of people most of them were civilian ( children women and men who did nothing )

it's a repeating history of pearlharbour 1 american = 100 civilians

[keldius]

@ndyt totally agree

[keldius]

@bush1tman a week would be better :D