Meet ex-Gitmo Detainee Murat Gurnaz

[Breathe]

Murat Gurnaz, an aid worker and an innocent man who was held in Guantanamo Bay for five years then released without charges, is interviewed in the following video. He was arrested when and because Pakistan offered $3,000 for al Queda members so people turned in enemies, neighbors, even strangers, like Murat to get that huge reward! This kind and gentle man was tortured and mistreated and separated from his country and loved ones and then released without apology five years later. When he talked about being put in a dark cell for 30 days for giving some of his bread to an iguana, well, it made me start crying. I have always had a place in my heart for animals lovers and to think of someone being denied sun for a month for such a thing! It makes me angry. It makes me want to throw up! It makes me ashamed of our government.

Our media refuses to tell his story. It is up to us. There are others just like him still there. Let's not wait 50 years like we did to talk about the Japanese we interred. We need to bring public attention to this now. I am writing journalists and asking them to view it and/or interview him. Please help in that effort.

We have a perfectly good justice system. Grant these people trials! Holding them indefinitely flies in the face of our democracy. It is one of my bitterest disappointments in Barack Obama, especially after seeing this.

Please share this with people. Please get this story out. Our media will not cover it. It is up to US!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYxtm1jfato&feature=youtu.be

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[annm4peace]

2. we are a little group in MN trying to fight for justice

We know of Mr Gurnaz. We have protested Eric Holder when he came here. WE have protested one of the memo writers, St Thomas Law Professor Robert Delahunty since 2003.

WE have protest outside the St. Paul Cathedral (right outside the door), when St. Thomas Law school had their mass before the graduation to condemn Professor Delahunty.

We have had many speakers, rallies, protests, vigils. in 2004, 72 of us dress up in orange suits and black hoods and walked through the skyways of downtown MInneapolis.
over 200 participated in the hour long protest before the event. (this was not covered by any of the local network stations).

It was covered by foreign press and progressive outlets.


So thank you for posting the story of Mr Gurnaz, and yes I will be sharing with many others.