Guantamo Bay Concentration Camp

I wonder if back in the good old days of the 60's 70's and 80's, if Guantamo Bay Concentration Camp looked something like this? You see, back then, Guantamo Bay Concentration Camp was for Haitians and Cubans. Although it was ran up into the early 90's, Bush 1 closed the camp.

Then in one of those "at least he's a democrat" moments, Bill "the Killer" Clinton reopened it so we wouldn't have any nig...I mean Haitians coming into this country. Then, in August of '94, Bill "The Killer" with a stroke of a pen opened Guantanamo Bay Concentration Camp to Cubans, whom he deemed as the equivalent of nig...I mean Haitians. Guantanamo, during these "good old days" housed up to 50,000 human beings of Haitian and Cuban status (21,000 Haitians).

In September of '94, the Clinton administration militarily occupied Haiti and those Haitians that didn't "volunteer" to go back to Haiti were forced to go back to Haiti, about three quarters of the Haitians housed in the Guantanamo Bay Concentration Camp.

In May of '95, the Clinton administration opened the doors to the Cubans and over 20,000 were brought into the folds of the robes of Lady Liberty.

Meanwhile, this is what happened to what was left of the Haitians:

[From page 71 of "The Take Our Jobs: and 20 Other Myths About Immigration," by Aviva Chomsky]"Only a few hundred Haitians were still in Guantanamo: most were unaccompanied children who had relatives or sponsors in the United States, pleading for them ot be allowed in. Right as the doors were opened for Guantanamo's Cuban detainees, the repatriation of the Haitian children began. "Many of the children sent back to Haiti have been left to fend for themselves in squalid and dangerous conditions. Some are destitute and living in the street."[quote from Bob Herbert, "In America, Suffering the Children," New York Times, May 27, 1995]"

What were the crimes these Haitians and Cubans committed that they were forced into the U.S. concentration camp at Guantamo Bay? They tried to immigrate to this nation via boat. "Give us your poor, your weak, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." MY ASS!

And here we are with Guantamo today. Beautiful isn't it?

By now, anyone who isn't "beligerently anti-intellectual" knows that pretty much all of these folks are innocent, at least of terrorism. So many articles have been written about that you can look them up yourself.

People are tortured, beaten, sometimes even killed, all in the name of the capital that owns our government. You see, it is the owning classes that create these things. It is we "beasts" that enact it. Further race hate, further genocide, further crimes against humanity, further religious hatred, etc.

Meanwhile, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the corporate owned U.S. military is killing Iraqi's and Afghani's; military, civilian, women, children, men, elderly, all in the name of the great capital that owns our nation.

For those of you who do not know this man, he is Sami al Hajj. Sami, as noted previously on this blog, was held prisoner at the Guantamo Bay Concentration Camp for six years. His crime: he didn't commit one.

You see, Sami was a cameraman for Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera has yet to sell out to the U.S. empires corporate media and tells other stories that aren't allowed air or print over here. Have you seen Sami's story on the front page or even "A" section of any newspaper? I don't read a lot of mainstream stuff, so maybe there has been. This should be big.

The U.S. imperial government wanted Sami to be a spy on his employer. That is why he was held and tortured for 6 years. Not because he was a criminal, but because he refused to be a spy for the Evil Empire.

You see, though, I never really looked into Guantanamo's history. I knew a little of it, but nothing like I found in "They Take Our Jobs..." I never knew the U.S. empire has been excessively criminal at this base until I read Aviva's book. I just figured it was a long time military base maintained by the U.S. to keep their greedy fucking hands on a chunk of Cuba with a possible future invasion in mind. I had no idea it was a concentration camp. I didn't!

But then again, I didn't know about the Vatican ran death camp in Croatia, Jasenovac, until about 8 years ago, either.

Huh, interesting bits of information one picks up when one reads a book.