{"id":43134,"date":"2013-03-21T09:05:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T16:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=43134"},"modified":"2014-12-30T00:31:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T07:31:07","slug":"close-gitmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/03\/close-gitmo.html","title":{"rendered":"Close Gitmo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

One of the lies our God King told us was that he was going to close Gitmo. I join with\u2026<\/p>\n

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to say, \u201cKeep your promise, Mr. Prez.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our state run media, like Uncle Screwtape, largely functions not by putting ideas *into* our heads, but by keeping ideas out.\u00a0 So, for instance, if it weren\u2019t for the Internet keeping you informed, you would scarcely know about the repellently monstrous acts of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, nor about the trial in which those acts are being documented. It\u2019s a story that, while \u201ccovered\u201d is carefully placed somewhere on Page 7 and is not given the \u201cThis tells you what they are all really like\u201d treatment that nuts like the Phelps cult always lovingly receive.<\/p>\n

In the same way, the state-run media hasn\u2019t told you anything about the hunger strike being held by prisoners in Gitmo.\u00a0 After all, they\u2019re just prisoners in Gitmo so they are automatically scum.<\/p>\n

Only here\u2019s the thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There are men there who have been cleared of all charges and are not being released.\u00a0 There are others who have been in legal limbo, with no court date in sight, for years.\u00a0 All while we live with a second term president who promised to close Gitmo in his first term, and seems to be doing nothing on the issue now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In short, President Hope and Change is overseeing a prison system that\u00a0has what we *know* are innocent men behind bars, whom we simply can\u2019t be bothered to release, along with other men whom we can\u2019t be bothered to find out if they are worthy of prison or not.\u00a0 They are guilty of being swarthy and Muslim, but beyond that, we don\u2019t know and don\u2019t care.\u00a0 So these forgotten prisoners, in their desperation, are hunger striking.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s of a piece, of course, with this Administration\u2019s method of dealing with\u00a0\u201cterror\u201d:\u00a0blow up weddings and funerals and\u00a0deliberately murder women and children on the theory that some of them may be terrorists.\u00a0 Afterwards, declare them terrorists and nobody will be the wiser.<\/p>\n

Our state-run media is not telling you that story, because our President is Just and Wise and stories like that will upset you and make you think incorrect thoughts about his Justice and Wisdom.<\/p>\n

Still and all, along with Ironic Catholic (linked above)\u00a0and \u00a0Chocolate for your Brain <\/a>and Patheos\u2019 own Frank Weathers<\/a>\u00a0and Tom McDonald<\/a>, Catholic and Enjoying It<\/em> wishes to add its voice to those demanding that the innocent be set free (in a better world, it would be with apologies and restitution from the US government for years of unjust imprisonment) and that Gitmo be closed.<\/p>\n

Finally, let me quote Ironic Catholic one last time:<\/p>\n

This post brought to you courtesy of a Bunch Of Catholics Blogging To Close Gitmo, and I encourage you to join us by writing your own post\/status\/tweet today, March 21st<\/strong>.\u00a0 My compatriot Sherry Antonetti is working with me on this, and her excellent<\/em> post is here<\/a>.\u00a0 And before you say, is this what America has come to\u2013a rally for change led by two humor bloggers?\u2013let me be the first to say, unfortunately, it has.\u00a0 But others are joining us and some have worked to educate on this issue a long time.\u00a0 I tip my hat to their hard work.\u00a0 Now let\u2019s get praying and calling!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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