January 11 marks the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the prison component of the US military base at Guantanamo Cuba. The US military has been at Guantanamo for decades, of course, but the idea to use the isolated base as a prison where men (and in some cases, boys) who had never been formally accused of a crime could be held forever, came from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney in 2002. In the intervening years, presidents and members of Congress of both parties have ignored civil rights, civil liberties, and human rights to keep this abomination open. It’s up to the rest of us to demand its destruction.
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