Kansas City Faith Blogger Condemns Legacy of Guantanamo Bay

Forgive yet another movie reference but most people are only familiar with GitMo because of an EXCELLENT 90s move and a classic soliloquy by Jack Nicholson's character which is indefensible but kinda makes a good point nevertheless.

Oh yeah . . . And even our favorite KC faith blogger only gives passing mention to the fact that Prez Obama campaigned on shutting down this alleged American torture facility but then quickly forgot about it like the rest of the voting public.

Credit to this longtime Kansas City newsman . . . He has a better memory and a cleaner conscience than most American presidents . . .

"I want to restate how appalling the whole Guantanamo story has been and, as this opinion piece from The Nation insists, why simply closing the prison -- though that's important -- won't be enough.

"What has happened -- and continues to happen -- at Guantanamo in our name as Americans has been a stream of flagrant violations of basic human rights and a repudiation of almost every good thing American citizens think our country stands for -- the rule of law, basic human rights, humane treatment of prisoners, a rejection of torture as a tool and simple human decency."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Keeping Gitmo prison open defies our highest moral values

The year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba opened as an off-shore place to house people whom American military forces or intelligence services were capturing in the so-called War on Terror. Since...

Further reading referenced by the pull quote . . .

Closing Guantánamo Won't Be Enough

Decades later, the harm and the crimes associated with Guantánamo continue.

Developing . . .