Comments on: Humanizing Fayiz al-Kandari: A Guantanamo Prisoner Wrongfully Detained

By: louise

louise — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:19:46 +0000

What the hell is going on in the justice department now? Fall guys standing in a row to take the blame for torture? Damn the web they weave! I thank you for the articles and hope you continue to speak out for the people held without charges in Guantanamo. I sincerely hope we can free Fayiz soon.

By: Marcy

Marcy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:13:05 +0000

The Department of Justice continues to stand firm against real trials and true solutions. It appears they are all afraid of who might get fired and how foolish they are looking. Rehabilition centers sound like the only way out of this mess. Guantanamo will be remembered and I keep thinking “bye, bye Miss American pie” and our democracy. I am truely afraid for our children. Let me live long enough to see justice at GTMO.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:48:13 +0000

I do not understand the silence of the Japanese-American community on this issue. I have also totally lost respect for Obama on this issue. I have lost respect for the Democratic Party for becoming a bunch of whimps and wusses on this and many other issues like Health Care. I plan on changing my party affiliation to Independent before the next major elections. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself and vote Republican, but I will not vote for enablers of this torture that the Rethugs started, nor the Democrats for ignoring the 72% of Americans they are pissing all over on the Single Payer option. Go back to the speech Obama made about how difficult it is to change the traditions of our Health Care system. Listen closely to it and at every point he makes as to how hard it will be to change, and think in terms of the end of slavery. Its all of the same lame-ass arguments that were made by the pro-slavery politicians before the Civil War. Guantanimo is the end of American Justice as we were taught it was for over two hundred years. We are back to pre-Magna Carta days, and getting worse.

By: Michael V

Michael V — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:37:45 +0000

The 2006 Seton Hall review of 517 prisoners at gitmo exposed to the administration that only 8% of the 517 held had any ties to Al Qaeda. The definition used to determine who was a enemy combatant was very lax and many were wrongly confined just for staying at an alleged Al Qaeda safe house. How can we continue to hold these men without charges, on evidence based on hearsay of hearsay and call ourselves a Nation based on laws. We need to step up and give these men hearings to establish innocence or guilt. Fayiz deserves his change to prove his innocence and be able to go home to his family.
Read “The Dark Side” by Jane Mayer if you wish to learn how the war on terror turned into a war on American ideals. If were are going to move forward we need to repair the wrongs of the past and ensure they never happen again.

By: GottaLaff

GottaLaff — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:24:58 +0000

I want to thank you for printing this.

It’s not easy to realize that the so-called “worst of the worst”… aren’t always. They’ve become lumped into a group called “terrorists”, even when they aren’t. They have become a faceless group of “bad guys”, the Them against Us.

Fayiz has somehow kept his sense of humor through his horrendous ordeal, and bears no ill will toward the U.S.

It’s okay to feel compassion for the many who have been imprisoned without evidence to justify not only their indefinite incarceration, but their abuse. It’s okay to realize that they’re not all “evildoers”.

It’s okay to know their names.

Thank you for making at least one of them human again. I appreciate the opportunity to introduce Fayiz al-Kandari to your readers.

By: Barry Wingard

Barry Wingard — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:30:07 +0000

DOJ continues to lose habeas cases one after another (28 of 33) based on “some” evidence standard; while people ignore the situation.

The DOJ better build the best “commission” system possible for their prosecutor’s to achieve the 60 total cases (779 have gone through GTMO since its start) DOJ claim’s it can prosecute. The real number is less than 25 unless they get their miracle hearsay, discovery, and secrecy rules they have proposed.

It is tough to believe that rehabilitation/reintegration has not caught on over at DOJ. Come on guy’s refocus and let’s get some real solutions.