now they are doing news specials on how we can keep 100+ prisoners alive who would rather waste away and die from hunger than live in the injustice that is the U.S. penal colony for un-accused (and now, often, releasable) prisoners.
Meanwhile. . .
The cost (paid to military subcontractors) for keeping and maintaining Gitmo open through the remainder of the Obama presidency will be . . .get this. . .
$750,000,000.
http://outfront.blogs.cnn.com/...
That's right 3/4 of a billion dollars.
or $900,000 per inmate per year.
paid to the companies who hired the lobbyists, who paid for the cocaine and prostitute laden junkets for congressmen, who signed onto the policies and legislation and actions given to them by the lobbyists, who were paid to take care of the congressmen by the companies who are going to make (and keep) $750,000,000 over the next 3 years.
by keeping (mostly) innocent "terrorists" who have never been accused of a crime in squalor on some offshore penal colony, in degrading conditions.
How many guantanimo detainees are eligible for release without charges? 86
How many were held originally? 166
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
of those remaining, how many would be found not guilty if charged? 25 out of 80(estimation)
so over 111 innocent victims were taken out of their countries, away from their families, locked up for over 10 years and left to rot while we spend our tax dollars at $900,000 per prisoner per year to some military-industrial-prison conglomerate so some cigar chomping fascist can buy a 10th home?
What the fuck is wrong with this country???