NO?
It is a US prison on the island nation of Cuba.
Right now it is solely used as punishment for those accused of being “terrorists”.
Some are calling for the prison to close…..
The Guantánamo conundrum never seems to end.
Twelve years ago, I had other expectations. I envisioned a writing project that I had no doubt would be part of my future: an account of Guantánamo’s last 100 days. I expected to narrate in reverse, the episodes in a book I had just published, The Least Worst Place: Guantánamo’s First 100 Days, about—well, the title makes it all too obvious—the initial days at that grim offshore prison. They began on January 11, 2002, as the first hooded prisoners of the American war on terror were ushered off a plane at that American military base on the island of Cuba.
Needless to say, I never did write that book. Sadly enough, in the intervening years, there were few signs on the horizon of an imminent closing of that U.S. military prison. Weeks before my book was published in February 2009, President Barack Obama did, in fact, promise to close Guantánamo by the end of his first year in the White House. That hope began to unravel with remarkable speed. By the end of his presidency, his administration had, in fact, managed to release 197 of the prisoners held there without charges—many, including Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the subject of the film The Mauritanian, had also been tortured—but 41 remained, including the five men accused but not yet tried for plotting the 9/11 attacks. Forty remain there to this very day.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/05/04/will-americas-forever-offshore-prison-ever-be-closed
I say NO…..the prison should remain open and the convicted of the 06 January insurrection should be given the maximum and fine and prison time and be sent to Gitmo.
Since these cowards are traitors and terrorists what better place than Gitmo for them to serve their time and think about the treason they committed.
Since our domestic prison system is overcrowded the use Gitmo the prison infrastructure is already available.
Let Gitmo serve the purpose that we have come to know and hate.
Turn The Page!
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
As I am English, I don’t really have a strong opinion about this prison. Other than to wonder why Cuba allows the continued presence of the US navy, troops, and officials on its soil when the US government is so anti-Cuban.
Best wishes, Pete.
Like I said…let the insurrectionists rot there…regardless of the degree of their crimes….a great place to contemplate what they help to be done. chuq
My biggest issue with this is people being held there indefinitely without a trial.
I agree but if anyone deserve that kind of punishment would be those slugs on 06 January….chuq