Status Updates From Guantanamo Voices: True Acc...

Bush, Obama, and Trump all failed when it came to Guantánamo. Like patriarchy, racism has caused millions to die and/or suffer. How have we let this come so far? What within our nature leaves space for this reality?

Horrifying. Americas racism is incredibly disturbing.

And people wonder why I have *certain feelings* towards the country I reside in

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.