You Know You Live In a Hypocrite Nation When:

You know you live in a hypocrite nation when:  

• The rich get away with everything including the laws (*cough* “Paris Hilton” Lucky, the judge listens to us)

• Rich get richer and poor get poorer.

• The poor are second-class citizens.

• Double standard is normal

• Overcrowded prisons are normal. No cares to deal with it.

• Prisoners and convicted criminals can’t vote and receive Federal Financial Aids for college education.

• Whites are innocent. The rest are criminals.

• Minorities (Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians) get harsher sentence than Whites.

• Black people can say the n-word and others can’t.

• The F- word, only gays can say it (Okay, I did not come up with that one, a friend told me)

• You get 10 year sentence for receiving a consensual oral sex from a minor & you’re a minor too while a woman who killed her husband, the pastor gets 60 days in jail.

• The government cares more about the big businesses than its people. (Why did we put them in the office in the first place, again?).

• Jails are for the poor and convicted criminals. (The poor can’t pay off their bails).

•  Illegal immigrants are more important than legal immigrants. (Read my posts on immigration, look on topics)

• Elected officials care more about illegal immigration in hopes to gain Hispanics votes.

• You tell immigrants to learn how to speak English properly and clearly when your president mispronounces “nuclear”

• A diverse nation fills with more than half of conservatives

• Freedom doesn’t exist because gays can’t get married and the Patriot Acts is on your butts, watch you every move like a stalker.

•    You and the people have doubts that either a black man or a white woman can be   the next President of US.

•  Your president supports for eavesdrop program.

•  A garbage man/ school janitor/ constructor gets pay more than a NYC cop

• Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy

• Inequality still exists.

•  Your government tells the world that your country is the richest and the most generous nation when your government borrows money from China. Pretty much, your country has debt with China.

• Secret Prisons, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay prison abuses are not considered human rights violation but rather “a war on terror.”

•   Democracy is abused in a wrong way.

Feel free to add on below.

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Why close Guantanamo (Part II)

 From Freethefive.org

I thought by showing the British movie “The Road to Guantanamo” would give a clean cut reason why the Guantanamo Bay prison camp should be closed without my explanation. Little did I know, I was wrong.

For those who don’t have the time to watch the entire movie, it is about three British men(aka the Tipton three because they’re from Tipton, England)’s trip to a wedding in Pakistan and their unplanned journey to Afghanistan  which led to their capture by the Northern Alliance in 2001. The three men were detained as enemy combatants at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. The movie shows the conditions of the Guantanamo prisoners and the treatments they received from the U.S military.

I believe the Guantanamo Bay should be closed because according to the Amnesty International,  none of the Guantanamo detainees have been convicted on any charges. These people are held against their will and presumed guilty by the U.S military. Hundreds of them including the Tipton three have been released without charges.The camp is holding innocent prisoners until they confess to a crime that they have no idea. It would be nice if you can put yourself into their shoes. Do you like being locked up for something that you didn’t do?  

To say the American can lock up and interrogate anybody it wants and there’s no point for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay is ignorant. There are many prison camps similar to the Guantanamo that we don’t know about. However, if we can work together to shut one down, we can close other ones as well. It takes media, research groups and  non-governmental organizations to help expose inhumane actions by powerful countries such as the United States.

What will happen after the closure of the Guantanamo Bay? What would it change? It is very hard to answer at the moment. All I know is this, if it closed, the prisoners who are in Cuba right now would be free and go back to their families. These people would tell their stories to the media. Definitely, the reputation of the United States would be broken into pieces. The U.S will not be powerful like it used to. It will show that U.S is not a great country and is no different from other major human rights violators.

Filed under: Guantanamo Bay, International Politics, News, Politics, Terorrism, Thoughts

Why close Guantanamo

 Watch this movie and you will understand why people want to shut down the Guantanmo Bay.

Filed under: Guantanamo Bay, International Politics, News, Politics, Terorrism

Cindy Sheehan in Cuba

It is reported that Cindy Sheehan is in Cuba to join the protest demanding the U.S to close the Guantanamo Bay, the prison camp for suspected terrorists. Sheehan has broken the U.S law which requires Americans to have special licenses from the government to travel to Cuba. Sheehan could face heavy fines when she returns to the United States.

After the death of her son, Sheehan became the central anti-war figure who has been demanding President Bush to end the war in Iraq.  According to The Age, the Australia newspaper, this protest is supported by the Cuban government because it allows protesters to march near the main entrance of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. The Cuban government is sending the message that the U.S is committing human rights violation by abusing its prisoners. However, the United States has been denying the accusation of prisoner abuse in the Guantanamo Bay area.

Filed under: Guantanamo Bay, News, Politics