Christmas wish for the soul of America

We need to care

No Relief To Offer
by hilzoy

I have written previously about the case of Abu Bakker Qassim and A'del Abdu al-Hakim, the two Uighurs who are still being held at Guantanamo, four years after they were captured by bounty hunters and turned over to the US for cash, and nine months after a tribunal found that -- oops! -- they were not enemy combatants after all. Today the judge who is hearing their case issued an extraordinary decision....

The December 22 decision states that America has imprisoned these men unlawfully, but the court ``has no relief to offer.''

Only when the people of America wake up from our deep dehumanizing slumber will these injustices be corrected. That is my pie-in-the-sky wish for Christmas. Right now I'm working on getting members of my own quite wonderful family to recognize the need for action on this front. The response so far makes me feel like we are on a slippery slope to hell and we don't even know it yet. There is a lot of work to do.