[Peace] ask videographer about Guantanamo

[C. G. Estabrook]

This case is a good topic for discussion on News from Neptune on UPTV, this 
Friday at 7pm on cable channel 6.

The case is not being reported, and Obama as a candidate opposed both Gitmo & 
military commissions.  He's turned his back on that, as on so much else he said 
and implied in the campaign.

If a precisely similar case had been prosecuted in the USSR to PRC, we'd all 
have recognized it for the travesty of justice that it is.  And when the Bush 
administration trashed Constitutional rights, they at least offered a theory 
(the unitary executive) for what they were doing.  Obama approaches it all with 
sublime indifference.

Seymour Hersh was quoted this morning as follows: "...the purpose of my [Abu 
Ghraib] stories was to take it out of the field into the White House ... it’s 
not that the President or the Secretary of Defense ... knew what happened in Abu 
Ghraib. It’s that they had allowed this kind of activity to happen. And I’ll 
tell you right now, one of the great tragedies of my country is that Mr. Obama 
is looking the other way, because equally horrible things are happening to 
prisoners - I mean to those we capture in Afghanistan. They’re being executed on 
the battlefield. It’s unbelievable stuff going on there that doesn’t necessarily 
get reported. And things don’t change.”

We let Obama preside over kangaroo courts, the torture of teenagers, and the 
murder of captives.  But since he's a Good Guy, he mustn't have noticed.  --CGE


On 5/12/10 1:24 PM, Karen Medina wrote:
> Human Rights Watch is doing a live web chat with a woman who did a video
> diary at Guantanamo Bay prison. She filmed a video diary and monitored
> military commission hearings on the Omar Khadr child soldier case.
>
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> Ever wonder what Guantanamo is really like? Confused about the
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> Daphne recently went to Guantanamo, where she filmed a video diary and
> monitored military commission hearings in the Omar Khadr child soldier case.
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> *WHAT: Webchat on Guantanamo*
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> *WHEN: Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 3 p.m. ET*
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> *WHO: Daphne Eviatar, Senior Associate, Human Rights First*
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