Status Updates From Guantanamo Voices: True Acc...

Excellent—though it’s the interview content that makes the book worth reading, not the illustrations.

The more I learn about this prison, the more horrified I become re: ICE detention centers.

“Obama could have issued an executive order to close Guantanamo altogether, but he didn’t want to face the political fallout.”

“Why I chose to do this work is not the answer people expect it to be. I feel it’s my responsibility as a white, middle-class American. All these harms are wrought in my name.” ~Shelby Sullivan-Bennis, attorney

Mansoor Adayfi, Yemeni, friend to animals, held in Gitmo for 14 years, never charged with a crime, eventually freed and sent to Serbia, a country he had no connection to.

Shout out to Stephen Cambone, one of the major villains of the “war on terror.”

Attributed to Thomas Wilner who was an attorney representing Gitmo detainees: “It’s hard for me to give a shit about [cocktail parties] when we’re holding innocent people in concentration camps and nobody cares!”
This was me throughout much of the 2000s and I’ll still kick off about the fact that Gitmo is still open with very little provocation.

“It was clear to me that we were going to commit war crimes.” Same, Mark Fallon.

Idk why I thought now was a good time to read more about Gitmo. The subject has been the source of a great deal of rage, sadness, and frustration for me since it opened. Imagine being a “forever detainee.” Never charged with a crime. Never convicted. Never allowed to leave.