Gitmo: Uncle Sam’s half billion dollar gulag for 40 political prisoners

President Biden announced a review of America’s military prison at Guantanamo Bay, with the aim of closing it.

Good luck with that Joe. Your former boss Obama announced the same goal upon entering the White House 12 years ago. Congress said ‘absolutely not’, terrified that some of the 781 imagined bad guys scooped up in criminal U.S. war zones and sold to Uncle Sam for bounty, might terrorize America’s Super Max prisons. Or worse, be sent home to plot another 911 style attack.

Gitmo was set up by President George W. in 2002 in response to processing all those poor Muslim souls sold to Uncle Sam for greenbacks. In a bitter irony it was located on the Cuban land we stole after ‘liberating’ the Cubans from Spain in 1898. Such land grabs after senseless wars are now illegal but America simply shrugs and continues its theft. Better to keep undesirables on stolen land off shore far from the Homeland.

In 2006, the Supreme Court declared that the military commission set up to process the prisoners violated the Geneva Conventions and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Congress did a workaround with its Military Commissions Act, allowing our gulag to go on.

That doesn’t satisfy the world community of human rights and humanitarian organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Red Cross and the UN who all condemn America’s descent into grotesque treatment of suspected undesirables.

Nineteen years on America continues its debasement of every precept of justice for the 40 remaining prisoners. Just one has been convicted of terrorist activities. Eleven have been charged but will never be tired. Twenty-eight have never even been charged.

For this madness we taxpayers pay $530 million per year. The congresspersons and their allies supporting Gitmo should pay every dollar. If so, they might miraculously grow a conscience and close Gitmo.