For a couple of years now, this image has run in the sidebar of this blog:
If you didn’t know what that was about, you can click through and read the post from the time I put it up.
Today, I’m taking it down.
There are two reasons, and both of them amount to my hope that America is returning to its senses.
One big reason is that you guys elected Obama. If you read the original post behind my putting that image up, you’ll see that I quoted extensively from Obama’s speech at the time. You can go read the full text of the speech online. Assuming Obama hasn’t done a 180 on his position here, and I’ve seen no sign of that, I think we can assume that things are going to get better on this front. I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for now.
The other reason is that habeas corpus cases are being ruled on at Gitmo now. I am, don’t mistake it, COMPLETELY FULL OF RAGE that it’s taken seven years for these decisions to happen (and the government can still extend the incarceration of these guys by appealing), and that after all this time we finally find out that:
…the government’s secret evidence in the case had been weak: what he described as “a classified document from an unnamed source” for its central claim against the men, with little way to measure credibility.
“To rest on so thin a reed would be inconsistent with this court’s obligation,” Judge Leon said. He urged the government not to appeal and said the men should be released “forthwith.”
That rage however, is tempered by a slim hope that this ruling is another signal that America returns to its senses.
So my little protest flag comes down, because I’d rather hope right now than yell.
