Today I learned that there are poets in Guantanamo Bay ...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

These people are being held there, accused of being terrorists...

They have been tortured, beaten, force fed, isolated....

They have struggled to retain their humanity and their sanity by writing poems...

More at link:

http://blogs.amnestyusa.org/portal/entriesForTag?tagId=127nq3535u9ta

I weep for them, and for us...

What's being done to them is being done in our name...

[jillan]

1. I donate to Amnesty, and got those in the mail.

Very touching.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I got them today in my poetry class...

The teacher wanted to commemorate the day...

I knew things were bad there, but I hadn't completely realized just how bad...

[DesertRat]

3. Thanks for the post.

I'd like to get the book.
:kick:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. So would I...

Thanks for the kick!

:kick:

[WCGreen]

5. K&R...

The truth must rule out...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Indeed it must...

Thanks, Chris...

[Lionel Mandrake]

7. Let's send that book to Nancy Pelosi.

Maybe it would remind her of what needs to be done.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. The best idea yet...

She certainly could stand some reminding, couldn't she? :grr:

[UrbScotty]

9. Isn't it pathetic, my dear CaliforniaPeggy?

This same administration that owes its existence to 'winning' the last couple elections on 'moral values' is now torturing people in the name of not only themselves, but some 300,000,000 innocent Americans.

I once read somewhere that in the case of Gitmo, the people being tortured may or may not be guilty... but for those doing the torturing, there's no doubt.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. I'd say rather, that this is so damn criminal...

Pathetic also works...

Oh yes, they 'won' the last elections...on 'moral values'....:puke:

Can you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y?

They obviously can't...

Thank you for your very good thoughts on this tonight...:hug:

:cry: