Friday, March 10, 2006
"Land of the Free"????
I've just heard (on Radio 4) some complete ignoramus from some American department try and justify why they are force feeding prisoners at Guantanamo, and it made me so sick and angry. All he could say about the subject was "it's in our best interests and their best interests to keep them alive." Can't he grasp that maybe life for a prisoner there is so awful that suicide is the best option? It really gets my goat up. Land of the frigging free? Lets have a look at the facts:-
I don't like to tar all Americans with the same brush, but if you can't see what a complete injustice this so-called war on terror is, and do something about it, then to quote Bush "if you're not with us you're against us".
- Guantanamo for a start (http://www.guantanamo.com/)
- Worlds highest prison population, and over a fifth of all prisoners in the world. (source: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/world-prison-population-list-2005.pdf)
- One of only 12 "liberal democracies" in the world that still have the death penalty (source: http://www.handsoffcain.org/bancadati/index.php?tipotema=arg&idtema=8000573)
I don't like to tar all Americans with the same brush, but if you can't see what a complete injustice this so-called war on terror is, and do something about it, then to quote Bush "if you're not with us you're against us".
