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Assessing the rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees

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by Doc Hopper

Guantanemo Bay means many things to many people - to the average caucasian it means "shock and awe", it means "scare our enemies", it means "the great military clout we have and use against those who hate us".

For a terrorist it means "place where 1 in 100,000 of us go".

For a graduate in the west who is born muslim grows up fully integrated and then finds himself unable to get jobs as easily as anyone nonmuslim, unable to form friendships as easily, unable to feel peace of mind - for them Guantanemo bay stands out as a perfect example of why America must be destroyed - we are not terrorists and the destruction we seek is the same as the destruction of Apartheid South Africa or of Illegal Settler Israel, or Colonial Britain.

The destruction of America's government system must be done without violence and must be led by free americans who have patriotism in their heart and want to see a nation which has a future rather than one which all other countries guarantee will be crushed before the next millennium.

America's history is one of land theft, slavery, social laxity, depravity, miseducation, chauvinism, segregationism and finally in the last 100 years, of massive greed and financial untowardness.

Guantanemo bay suits the USA well and proves very clearly (it has been running for 7 years now) that the USA is a has-been power which just does not really believe that the people of the world are equal. First there are Americans, then there are allies, mostly white, then come the rest.

They don't know that Hitler, Apartheid South Africa, Colonial England and others all got their asses kicked for doing the same thing. Even non-white empires did similar stuff 1000s of years ago and were also crushed - the Assyrians, Babylonians, Ancient Egyptians etc.

Rule by might and force always fails. Guantanemo bay, where many innocent men have been wrongly imprisonned (in the end some of them are even free, proving that the torture they were put through really WAS against the geneva conventions, since the judiciary has, in these cases, made it clear that these men aren't and never were 'enemy combatants' and some were even abducted from totally civilian situations. Picked up at airports and just taken away, accused of things they didn't do and left to rot for several years before being released on the basis that they shouldn't have been locked up at all.

True, many young male muslims have to live in fear that white overlord supremacists will suddenly abduct them, like the innocent civilians in Alien 4, and that therefore we should not travel much, we should keep our heads down and avoid places where we'll get bothered or even abducted - some of us are too afraid to have visited any relatives abroad since 9/11 - that means some people, eg me, have been punished by America, without having done anything, and are forced to live less complete lives.

But as I said - the fact that America is doing so much evil is a good reason to be reassured that America's day is over - admittedly to be safe I will have to leave Britain and move somewhere I can be sure my children will have better job prospects than me - even though I was one of the top pupils at St Paul's school, one of England's best schools, even though I have a masters degree from Oxford, I have less chance of employment than most uneducated or substandardly-educated white people who do the job worse than me. Thus I know that before I have kids I must move away from the west, because not only is it crumbling, but it is full of venom which will be taken out on my kids even more than it has been on me - and I know how much Britain and America, the people, the press, etc, have hurt me and made my life very hard.

Guantanemo bay is clearly the USA's gravestone.

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