Veterans

horror show there and it is very telling.

It may represent a leak in the reality that the American "commercial" conveys to those willing to accept and perceive a contrivance in place of what is actual or tangible.

Gitmo is a dark deep shadow in the corner of our collective eye. It may be more important to us than we imagine if it does, in fact, have a meaning that is not obvious at first. The paranoid may say it is a sign of things to come, a testing ground and a subtle warning about what we consider to be humane treatment, human rights and "liberty" and "justice".

It is clear that those prisoners are staying as guests of the American people in the sense that we do not want to, or can't do anything about the egregious abuses going on there. We are not just talking about an overnight or short affair here, which is still bad enough. This is a decade of flagrant violations by a country that honors no international law and holds itself above them, (just as we see internally concerning certain industries, like the banking and financial sectors).

If anything comes from this long-standing debacle, perhaps it will be insights to the fabrications that still persist about our policies and how much lip-service is payed to the so-called "values" we profess or tend to believe as real. We have a situation where excuse after excuse reveals how they can easily be ignored when it is deemed convenient to do so.

If those values do not apply generally and are only for the privileged and Gitmo makes me pause to wonder what wave may issue forth from that monstrous example to someday inundate many of us who are not America #1 citizens.

We cannot profess with any dignity something that we are not fully committed to acting on. Otherwise its just the commercial version of a simulated product called Freedom(tm).