{"id":3615,"date":"2012-01-11T15:04:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T22:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2012-01-11T15:04:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T22:04:55","slug":"guantanamo-gulag-10th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/guantanamo-gulag-10th-anniversary.html","title":{"rendered":"Guant\u00e1namo Gulag 10th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 11, 2011 marks the 10th anniversary<\/a> of the U.S. detention camp at Guant\u00e1namo Bay, Cuba. The prison was authorized by former president George W. Bush as part of his “war on terror”. In 2005 Amnesty International called Guant\u00e1namo the “Gulag of our time<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

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While running for the presidency, Senator Obama said during a CNN televised debate<\/a> broadcast on 6-03-07; “Our legitimacy is reduced when we’ve got a Guant\u00e1namo that is open, when we suspend Habeas Corpus, those kind of things erode our moral claims that we are acting on behalf of broader universal principals, and that’s one of the reasons those kinds of issues are so important.”<\/p>\n

In an interview conducted by 60 Minutes and broadcast on 11-16-08, President Obama proclaimed; “I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guant\u00e1namo and I will follow through on that, I’ve said repeatedly that America doesn’t torture and I’m going to make sure that we don’t torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America’s moral stature in the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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