Cartoon for October 8, 2009
Strange, but true: The Obama Administration is refusing to release many Guantanamo detainees they know are innocent because they may be embittered due to their long, unjustified imprisonment by the United States.
Labels: Detainees
posted by Ted Rall at
12:01 AM
14 Comments:
Hopefully the desert island can be somewhere outside the scope of international law. It might improve the conditions.
The solution is fairly simple: restitution. Good old taxpayer money placed in the former detainees' pockets. Give 'em enough cold, hard cash and relocate them in Las Vegas. Or Chicago. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Where's your evidence?
After reading this, I immediately thought we should apologize to these people and bring them into the US and give them citizenship; make them into ambassadors for America by letting them see we really aren't the evil capitalists they claim we are...
...But then I realized maybe we should do this anyway, because them these people could see the truth of what they are told by the likes of Bin Laden - the we truly ARE evil capitalists. Maybe they'll be able to discern between the slaves who accept their fate and are just too unwilling to get off their asses and do anything about it (liberals), the inbred-esque right wing nut cases who, like themselves, are bullied by the likes of Glen Beck, into becoming zealots who do whimpy things like go to town hall meetings and disrupt the process of debate in public; or the corporations who really run the show.
Maybe if they can see these things, they won't be so willing to blow themselves up, but maybe, just maybe, they will see what America truly is - a nation of people so engaged in the pursuits given to them by corporate propaganda that they'll stop blowing themselves up and start calling world attention on the real situation.
But then again, what about all the people WE put in prison here in America who are innocent? What about their embitterment? We let these people back out on the streets every day. They don't go blowing themselves up, do they?
Does anyone really think that releasing these people from Guantanamo, and giving them citizenship and a grant to start a new life in America really think these people can become terrorists without the isolated influence of right-wing extremists who believe that getting their agenda across is best done by strapping explosives to oneself? Come on folks, right-wing extremist propaganda in America is limited to organizations watched by the Southern Poverty Law Group, not the FBI.
Where's your evidence?
This confused comment is comical with its anonymous, existential searching...
I don't get it.
Anon 12:04,
Did you just come out of a rock? We still have detainees cleared by the Bush administration in Guantanamo bay waiting for a country to take them.
Seriously get real.
Ted,
They only thing you can fault Obama for is that he's using Bush's same excuse. That's actually more spineless and ridiculous. We expected that from Bush, but to see it from someone who portrayed himself as having a backbone and intelligence is something else.
But hey! Maybe there is something he knows that we don't. Maybe there is some massive conspiracy that only a few people are aware of. Notably the military industrial complex.
It's also funny to see people on TV defending the military industrial complex. How does a billion and by now trillion dollar industry thrive on peace? Si vic pacem parabellum. That's how!
How does this relate? Gitmo is nothing but one of it's aberrations.
Does this logic also hold true for people who have been on death row and are exonerated by DNA evidence or actually should anyone be released from prison as they too might have been "embittered" by the experience?
Also, Ted, maybe you should write an article addressing the evidence issue. Like Anon 10/8, some of my associates don't believe me when I say that there are innocent people in Gitmo. For some reason justice is perfect when it comes to terrorism.
Does this logic also hold true for people who have been on death row and are exonerated by DNA evidence or actually should anyone be released from prison as they too might have been "embittered" by the experience?
Also, Ted, maybe you should write an article addressing the evidence issue. Like Anon 10/8, some of my associates don't believe me when I say that there are innocent people in Gitmo. For some reason justice is perfect when it comes to terrorism.
Completely off topic:
How much is the graphic novel? I want one, and I'll put in my order today, but I don't want to put in my credit card info before I know what I'm getting into.
Now that he's a Nobel Prize winner, all those detentions don't count!
Hi Brian,
The book is $18.95. If you order through me, there's also $4.95 for shipping within the U.S.
Best,
Ted
Just a piece of constructive criticism, Ted: your Obama has too much of a square jaw. It's not as weird as the three-breasted women, but it doesn't do the man justice.
Hi Ted,
Great cartoon, but, as one of the world's many Mr. Neffs, I must ask: why me?
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