So for those of you who didn't get the pun, I was referring to Guantanamo Bay, or Gitmo, the site of the United States' detention center for dangerous individuals. Most of these people were collected through the war in Iraq as insurgents or threats. In Gitmo, they are kept in housing cells and questioned daily through myriad interrogative schemes and torture tactics. Such practices have come under IMMENSE scrutiny by not only the United States media but also international diplomatic bodies like the United Nations.
Just today, a United Nations panel stated:
"The state party should cease to detain any person at Guantanamo Bay and close this detention facility, permit access by the detainees to judicial process or release them as soon as possible."
The way US military officials and lower ranking soldiers have conducted themselves in both Gitmo and Abu Ghraib have been deplorable by any standard. Desecrating religious items, incessant and unncessary torture, sexual assault and physical abuse have been the norm at these institutions.
Thus, the million dollar question is: What do you think the United States should do? Maintain these prisons and other secret prisons in the face of international protests, or accept their wrongdoings and cease maintenance?
We need better people to run these things, because we have to do something with those who are a threat but we should by no means be treating them in such a way.
Well couldn't we do things about those "threats" without conducting torture operations?