ROAD TO GUANTANAMO-GO SEE IT!


I just got back from watching the movie "ROAD TO GUANTANAMO" and a panel discussion by the Director, an Army psychologist expert on torture, and others.
It was at the 7th Street theatres in DC.
Someone really doesn't want America to see this movie-(It won an award at the Berlin film festival) which is why you really should go when it hits the major theatres this Friday. As soon as it got to the part where burlap bags were roped around the suspects heads (one former detainee narrated that he thought they were all going to be hung then) the strobe fire lights and fire alarm exploded in the theatre causing us all to have to evacuate. After the DC Fire Marshalls were called to clear the space we were allowed back in, but the theatre didn't turn off the strobe lights for the whole rest of the film. This caused a lot of people to leave naturally.

If you are a law clerk or Judge dealing with any issues regarding detainees held without official charges and presumed guilty as "enemy combattants" just because they were picked up and Bush or Rumsfeld says so, you MUST see this film. Anyone thinking about the Hamdi case should see it. If you work on the Hill in any capacity you have to see it.

The movie tracks through the narrative voices of several actual Pakistanis living in Britain who were Guantanamo detainees held without official charges and no real evidence. It chronicles how they got to Afganistan and how they were picked up. It details the torture techniques vividly. It makes it obvious that this Administration is full of sick twisted goons who badly need a grip.

I ask you- If there is no reality check regarding this Administration in Congress and there is no reality check in the Courts, where are we? Who are we as a people. See this movie and think about it- hard.