Gitmo

I read a headline today that read, “U.S. government vows not to use “waterboarding.”

It is sad that our world has come to that. We need to announce that we no longer endorse torture. Torture. Isn’t there something in the Geneva Convention that tells us we can’t torture people? Does the fact that we were attacked eight years ago give us the right to drown America’s moral values? We have a Patriot Act that basically ignores the freedoms given to us by the Constitution and embraces the future given to us by George Orwell.

There are people out there that are upset about the fact that the Obama Administration is shutting down Guantanamo Bay. Guantanamo Bay is a detention facility in Cuba were we store Afghanistan and Iraq citizens that we assume are terrorists. Now, if there was an island off the coast of Iraq were American citizens were taken after being drug out of their houses in the middle of the night, then were tortured by simulated drowning, held without trial, and forced to watch guards rip pages out the Bible that were then flushed down a toilet: do you think American’s would be angry about this and want this stopped? What gives us the right?