Hunger Strike

At his most recent press conference President Obama called for closing down the prison in Guantanamo, pointing out that it harms our foreign policy and is not in keeping with American ideals.  We are holding people in prison indefinitely, evidently until they die.  No trials, no proof of any kind of guilt, no way out.

Gutless Congress has passed laws that the prisoners can’t be transferred to the U.S. or released to other countries.  It offered no solution except to hold these men until they die.

Now we are sticking tubes down the noses of 21 prisoners who are on a hunger strike to force-feed them.  I am 70 years old, and it is very hard for me to even imagine my country acting this way.  This is not the country I grew up in.

When African captives on slave ships refused to eat, the slavers would hold red hot coals to their lips to make them open their mouths.  Too bad they didn’t have tubes to shove down their nostrils.