Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

creation of Guantanamo Bay. Guantanamo Bay is a detention camp located in Cuba that hold suspected terrorists and is used to extract critical information. There have been proposed plans to close or replace Guantanamo Bay due to moral and cost-wise reasons. However, it should remain open because the detainees are too dangerous to move to another prison, crucial information is extracted, and the U.S. Constitution and the Geneva Convention are not violated. The detainees in Guantanamo Bay are not…

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The significance of President Obama’s proposal of closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center could not be more delayed from both a moral and justice standpoint. A case in point is that the infamous detention center continues negatively to be seen as an inhumane facility that violated the human rights and lack of due process for detainees. On January 22, 2009, President Obama’s proposal of closing the detention facility in one year showed the slightest of promises to say the least. For example,…

Guantanamo Bay is a detention camp located in the southern tip of Cuba operated by the U.S. military (Fetini np). The detention facility was created after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York when Americans felt threatened by the uncertainty of terrorism (Fetini np). President Bush established the detention facility to campaign the elimination of terrorism and their support networks (Fetini np). Guantanamo Bay was established to hold individuals’ captive during military…

his 2009 disappearance from his base in Afghanistan, the service announced Monday, raising the possibility that the soldier could face life in prison after being held captive for five years. Bergdahl, 29, is charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. He has been a political lightning rod since he was exchanged in May 2014 in a prisoner swap approved by the White House in which five Taliban officials were released from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and kept under…

The enduring value of dystopias lies in its ability to speak to the significant role of individuals as agents of hope and life in a despondent society whose limitations aim to caution the audience of alarming contextual trends. Dystopian literature is a product of dark times and a vehicle for moving its readers to see the differences of an elsewhere and thus think critically about their current world and the issues within it (Baccolini, 2004). Alfonso Cuarón, director of Children of Men (2006),…

Conflict at Guantanamo On September 11 2001, America changed. The terrorist attacks that took the lives of thousands called for immediate actions to take place. The opening the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, nicknamed Gitmo, was one of the first actions that President Bush took in the fight against terrorism. Now one person could have predicted the enormous conflict that the prison would be apart of years later. As prison was issued to close by newly elected President Obama, many raised the…

This book is an incredible, first-person story about imprisonment, torture, and life in the secret world of Guantanamo. It is complete with government redaction bars as well as footnotes tying the narrative to declassified documents. Especially interesting are the human relationships formed with guards and interrogators throughout Slahi’s ordeal. Sadly, this tale illustrates the plight of many other Gitmo prisoners. A little of Slahi’s story: he’s from Mauritania and when he was 18 went to…

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The American population is conditioned to trust and accept any information that the United States government provides to them. Although there are many individuals in these branches that are fighting for the people, there has been countless incidences when the populace has been deceived. The film “Unconstitutional: The War On Our Civil Liberties” examines the Patriot Act, and how, in a time of crisis, the United States government used the distress of the American people to gain ultimate power.…