Gitmo

NPR has given lawyers representing Gitmo prisoners recorders so they can report on the conditions that the Arab prisoners are being held in. It is absolutely incredible that in a constitutional democracy 500 people can be held in such conditions where all concepts of human rights short of judicial murder can be so easilly discarded. This is an outrage. Like the virtually ignored 2000 dead American soldiers these 500 reflect on something absolutely disgusting about our current body politic. We do not care who dies or suffers for us. We have no sense of social solidarity other than ridiculous magnets on the asses of our cars.

Gitmo is an auto-immune disorder in our democracy, as is the ability to wage war without personal responsibility. When a democracy can do these things we have a chronic problem that can kill us.