For Omar Khadr

For Omar Khadr, Ryan Harman, 2010.

I honestly thought that things were going to get better. You can promise to close Camp X-ray, Guantanamo, wherever? But when does that actually happen? The Bush doctrine is that strong? The most ineffectual president in the history of our country has created a system so powerful that you cannot avoid operating under the auspices of its unpublished/unwritten/unknown rules since election day? And now, as a country we persecute a man (now a man) that committed crimes against the United States of America at the age of FIFTEEN, and call his guilty plea a victory? Congratulations, this blue print for change is everything we HOPED for...

See also:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130961713

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/us/26gitmo.html?scp=3&sq=omar%20khadr&st=cse

http://unbearablenonsense.blogspot.com/2008/11/camp-x-ray-sarah-kane.html