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Name: Anonymous on May 18, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Savion on May 18, 2012Comments: Cool! I completely agree.Flag
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Name: Lynn Anderson on May 18, 2012Comments: It's about time. Please stop blocking President Obama's Executive Order and close this facility, which shames our nation and what we stand for.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 18, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Aaron on May 18, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Sara Varadharajulu on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Ashley on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Sara on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Lauren on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Payton on May 19, 2012Comments: great presentationFlag
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Name: Anonymous on May 19, 2012Comments: awesome cause and petition :)Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Elizabeth Goldenburg on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Ellie Lieberman on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Zoey on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Anika on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Marco on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Montera on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Erin on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Jack Gold on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Chloé on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Brianna on May 19, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Giuliana on May 19, 2012Comments: Sure y not?Flag
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Name: Lee Fisher on May 20, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Chuckles on May 20, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on May 21, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Ryan on May 21, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Noah Lawrence Egerton on May 23, 2012Comments: This prison is a terrible breach of justice and is a terrible reflection upon the United States' perception abroad. The fact that this prison remains open encourages extremists who can use the prison as a propaganda tool, and prisoners who have been detained here who were innocent to begin with eventually form terrorist attitudes due to their mistreatment. Guantanamo is an abomination and only reflects poorly on America. End this outrage.Flag
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Name: Luana on Jun 4, 2012Comments: I'm worrying every day, to be hoenst, said Benatta. ask any Algerian he will tell you what will happen to me if I am deported. He said, that if he is returned to Algeria, he could face torture, lifelong imprisonment or even execution. ACLU No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. Article 9, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which the U.S. helped create and which the U.S. is a signatory to! It is now apparent that the overwhelming majority of the men who were detained had simply overstayed their visas or committed similar civil immigration infractions that, ordinarily, would not have led to detention at all. ACLUActions against Benamar Benatta and others violates human rights principles found in two important international instruments:• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (which the U.S. helped create after World War II)• The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (whose provisions are similar to our Bill of Rights) The United States is a signatory to both these documents. ACLUBy asking the United Nations to shine a global spotlight on the U.S. government's indiscriminate roundup of immigrants, the ACLU warns the government that it cannot escape justice through secrecy. The United States government has done everything in its power to hide its actions from public view. The government refused to disclose the names of the men it secretly held, and then deported them before they could tell their stories. The government clearly hoped that these immigrants had disappeared forever. But just as the United States is crossing borders abroad in the name of security, we will cross borders in the name of justice to vindicate human rights abuses. ACLUBenatta's fears about returning to Algeria center on the country's violent Islamic fundamentalist movement as well as its military. I had a problem with the terrorists who wanted to kill me and the military, which was beating and torturing people, he told The Washington Post. ACLUAhilan Arulanantham, a former staff attorney at the ACLU's Immigrants Rights Project, recalls what he saw and heard at the Brooklyn detention center: I remember being very struck that the men's wrists were shackled, their legs were shackled at the ankle, their arms were shackled to their waist. There was a guard on each arm and another guard behind and a guard in front. The detainees described physical abuse, that they were thrown up against the wall, that lights were on constantly, that it was freezing. They tried to put blankets on themselves, but guards would get angry about that when they had counts.' ACLU the ACLU and other groups filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding government documents in response to reports that it is intentionally sending detainees to countries known to engage in torture and other illegal interrogation techniques. If successful, this action will help us determine whether the U.S. has violated the Convention Against Torture, one of the few human rights treaties that the U.S. has actually signed and ratified. ACLUI believe that the U.S. has indeed violated any or all of the conventions against torture that are presently in place.It's very sad.RuschiaFlag
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Name: Marisa on Jun 4, 2012Comments: I am Benamar Benatta's lawyer. The ciruamstcnces of Benamar's case are the worst I have ever heard. An innocent man, he was illegally transferred to the U.S. by Canadian officials on September 12, 2001 with nothing but prejudicial suspicions. He was locked away in the Metropolitian Detention Centre in Brooklyn under John Ashcroft's insidious preventative detention regime. He was forgotten by Canada. He was tortured, abused and arbitrarily detained for nearly five years. Where do we even begin to obtain justice for Benamar? Well, first of all, we need answers. We need to put pressure on the Canadian government to review the ciruamstcnces of Benamar's illegal transfer. We need to call Canadian officials to account for their illegal actions. We need to reaffirm human rights principles and the rule of law. We need to make sure this never happens again.I hope that when you read about Benamar's case, you feel compelled to lend your voice in speaking out against the injustices he endured. Join the Benatta Coalition for a Public Review and post a comment of support. Benamar regularly views this site and your expressions of support mean more than words can describe. Together, we will find the truth. In truth, there will be justice. That is what Benamar, and Canadians alike, deserve.NicoleFlag
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Name: Jay on Jun 4, 2012Comments: We must stand up to injustice like this or we lose our huatminy. We must affirm the rights of EVERY individual, and demand right be done for EVERY atrocity or we consent to the same abuse being visited upon us.The Canadian government MUST be TOLD that THIS IS NOT RIGHT and is not acceptable.Benatta has support on my (the US) side of the border, too. Sadly, United States citizens are becoming more and more used to arbitrary detention and torture. Our government (both wings) is giving up on international approval and the rights of the individual. If Canada still cares about her reputation in the world, now is the time to distance herself from the brutality Benamar has gone through by MAKING RIGHT for their part in this horrible wrong. Ben did the right thing by not participating in the torture he saw in Algeria, and he was rewarded by being tortured himself. He needs citizenship and compensation, so that he can put his life back together from the years of suffering and dehumanization to which he was subjected.Flag
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Name: Edeykiikjfx on Jun 6, 2012Comments: QQ2pOI ohwnunbjloshFlag
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Name: Sophie on Jun 6, 2012Comments: i have personally heard peeisdrnt on tv.pertaining to the issue of guat.jail dententions.the peeisdrnt stressed the need to preserve the diginity of the democracy of united states. there had been some horrible reports of the torture on the deatiness and its visuals once published could naturally increase the hate content against the united states by the afected families.president was more concerned tht the laws should niether be allowed to be transgressed in such method as would make the law agency emotional to act in execess of its use and at the deteriment of country.president rightly found tht some of the conjuctures were floated on the fear psychosis of terror threats which were unfounded and baseless rendering harm to the emotional and security content of the citizens of america.under the spirit ofamerican constitution the relaxation otherwise long due were duly recognised and applied by the peeisdrnt to uphold the diginity of democracy and concept of justice popularily known in america concerning the trails of detainees.thxFlag
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Name: Pamela on Jun 6, 2012Comments: Respected Obama,Im happy to get chance to share few words on the bahlef of you. Im not going to give u comments on what is going on in America nor what is its policy about the world. I better know that once you were also colinized by so called supreior white though you r ruling the world now.It is crysta clear that in your foreign affair South Asia stands on top and to impose your policies you r gaining favor of indian Primeminister, Manmohan and sonia Gandhi and boycutting china.Because of your policy and hidden motive we Nepali are suffering here. We better know indians treatment to Nepali. India is incroaching our land and playing foul to make Nepali government unstable and there is meximum possibility of Maoists being underground and holding weapon.As you yourself has faced the trauma of being colonized and dehumanized, we request you to change Indian mindset of making Nepali government unstable and colinizing us indirectly.Flag
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Name: Modular Homes Upstate NY on Jun 5, 2013Comments: rChJav I cannot thank you enough for the article.Really looking forward to read more. Keep writing.Flag
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