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Tell President Bush: Close Guantanamo Prison!

Target: George W. Bush, President
Sponsored by: Faithful America

The Supreme Court just ruled to block military tribunals for detainees at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In light of this decision, now is the time for President Bush to close the doors to Guantanamo for good!

Detaining persons without cause, denying due process in a court of law, and ignoring worldwide concerns about the inhumane treatment of detainees are rooted in values which run counter to the basic teachings of nearly every religion and spiritual practice and are acts one should never expect at any institution under US jurisdiction.

The closing of the Guantanamo Prison would follow not only the ruling of our highest court, but also the recent tragic suicides of three detainees and the many admonitions by leaders around the world.

Urge President Bush to close this inhumane facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba once and for all!

deadline: 6-29-2007
goal: 10,000

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I join with the National Council of Churches and people of faith and conscience everywhere to urgently call for the United States to close its Guantanamo Bay detention facility without delay.

It has been nearly five months since the United Nations Commission on Human Rights called upon the U.S. to close Guantanamo, to refrain from any practice amounting to torture, and either bring detainees to trial or release them.

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Since the UN statement was issued, the Supreme Court of the United States has also ruled against military tribunals of detainees, 3 detainees have committed suicide and 75 have staged hunger strikes to protest conditions in the jail. Amnesty International has described the facilities as "a legal black hole" where detainees are denied access to any court, legal counsel or family visits. "Denied their rights under international law and held in conditions which may amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment," Amnesty reports, "the detainees face severe psychological distress."

Americans who love their country and its historic ideals are mortified by this continuing blot on our honor, on our steadfast defense of freedom, and on our commitment to democracy and the rule of law. We appeal again to the President and to the Secretary of State: bring this cruel and humiliating chapter to an end. Close the Guantanamo Bay facility immediately.

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We signed the “Tell President Bush: Close Guantanamo Prison!” petition!

# 9,194:

4:50 pm PST, Jan 9, Annica Klein, Germany

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1:06 am PST, Jan 6, Name not displayed, Wisconsin

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12:04 am PST, Jan 4, Tania Naim, Lebanon

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9:20 pm PST, Jan 3, Linda Hughes, Florida

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4:18 pm PST, Jan 1, Simos Tarabatzis, Greece

# 9,189:

3:49 pm PST, Jan 1, Anne Martinez, Arizona
this is NOT freedom!!! Bush will NEVER end this! we need a president who will...Dr. Ron Paul 2008!!! findout more at www.RonPaul2008.com "we the people" are speaking - if they won't listen, we'll make them! want to do more? contact: "giving it all for Ron Paul" - theunitedfreaks@gmail.com

# 9,188:

7:37 pm PST, Dec 31, Katherine Gendron Mayers, Canada

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11:08 pm PST, Dec 28, Roxie Schliesmann, Wisconsin

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5:53 am PST, Dec 25, Name not displayed, Germany

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12:58 am PST, Dec 21, Patrick Walsh, United Kingdom

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6:30 pm PST, Dec 17, Cheyenne B., New Jersey
Guantanamo is bad! The detainees arent given barely any rights and its unfair, think about their familes! You know its wrong!

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4:38 am PST, Dec 9, Rita Campbell, Alaska
Guantanamo Prison is a blight on American history and justice. Guantanamo Prison is inhumane, unjust, and its existence is an international outrage. Its continued existence is a serious threat to international security. Either charge the prisoners and try them in a U. S. court, or release them! The people at Guantanamo are not "enemy combatants" or "detainees," they are P.O.W.'s, and they have LEGAL RIGHTS TO FAIR TREATMENT. Guantanamo is an insult to all good Americans, and people over the earth who believe in justice and the rule of law. President Bush, this is America and in America THE LAW IS KING. The American Constitution, the Geneva Conventions, and the U.S. Military law is THE LAW, not you! President Bush, we cannot hold people as prisoners indefinitely without charging or trying them and doing so is an ABUSE OF POWER and it adds to international insecurity. YOU OPENED IT, SO CLOSE GUANTANAMO PRISON NOW!

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8:07 am PST, Nov 28, Tania Massotti, Canada

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8:17 pm PST, Nov 26, Name not displayed, Maine

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3:57 pm PST, Nov 25, Dianna Dennis, North Carolina
I should of signed this a long time ago!!

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12:14 am PST, Nov 17, Munib Khalid, Pakistan
Unjustified

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6:04 am PDT, Nov 3, Holly Swint, Florida

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9:00 am PDT, Nov 2, Kimberly Miller, Pennsylvania

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8:56 am PDT, Nov 2, Marek Zielinski, United Kingdom
Dear Fellow Peace Activists, In my personal opinion, this is something all people of peace should act upon as we already did by writting a letter to polish permanent representative to the United Nations with a request for our petition to be recognized as a way to global peace forever. http://www.peace365.org In Peace Marek

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11:43 am PDT, Oct 30, Olga Martin, Argentina

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7:42 pm PDT, Oct 22, Gabby Huerta, Minnesota

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7:55 am PDT, Oct 15, Emilio Rivera, Florida

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5:55 am PDT, Oct 9, Michael Rabasco, Minnesota
this behavior is not acceptable being a former military member i would never have participated in such cruelty. Justice is for all.

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8:56 am PDT, Sep 27, Panagiotis Rigopoulos, Greece
Find more humanitarian methods for these people and give them a chance to live.

# 9,169:

12:07 am PDT, Sep 27, Jacolin Schultz, Wisconsin
Close Guantanamo Prison FOREVER !!

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12:47 pm PDT, Sep 26, Name not displayed, Indiana
it may seem like good utilitarian ethics, but it's not actually ETHICAL! We'd have a big problem with Iraqis torturing Americans... let's be fair. Stop torturing them! They are human, after all.

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8:39 pm PDT, Sep 24, Amy Walczyk, New York

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12:41 pm PDT, Sep 22, Naomi Potts, Minnesota
why torture inocent ppl? what is this, the holocaust?

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5:20 pm PDT, Sep 21, Connor Norton, Minnesota
I thought this was the United States, not Nazi Germany

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6:31 pm PDT, Sep 20, Naeem Shaikh, Pennsylvania
The sign of a true leader is one who will maintain his honor, civility and dignity in face of the worst enemy onslaught. By lowering your ideals, values and morals, how can you claim to be a champion of democracy, liberty and human rights? If you act like they do, then what are fighting for? How are you different from your enemies?

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11:58 am PDT, Sep 18, Kyna Crain, Montana

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3:38 pm PDT, Sep 13, Enya J bailey, United Kingdom

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4:22 am PDT, Sep 2, Kaytie Irvine, California

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4:06 pm PDT, Aug 29, Selena Millman, Ohio

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10:48 am PDT, Aug 18, Chuck Dowe, Massachusetts

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8:41 pm PDT, Aug 14, Marlyssa Carlton, California

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7:15 pm PDT, Aug 13, Sharon Dickenson, Kentucky

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1:04 pm PDT, Aug 12, Orly Treitman, New York
The rights being denied these people are the rights laid down by America's founding parents, which they considered to be the natural God-given rights of all human beings. Revoking them on the basis of "racial profiling" or whatever other dispotic and bigoted methods used by your officials is unconstitutional, unAmerican, and, most of all, innately wrong.

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5:05 am PDT, Aug 8, Abidali G Manesia, India

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4:04 pm PDT, Aug 7, N-aisha Menendez, Canada
INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!!

# 9,153:

1:25 pm PDT, Jul 30, Robert Eddowes, California
It is unconstitutional. Not that you care Bush, but WE THE PEOPLE do! And were in charge not YOU!... Ron Paul For President! Americas Last Hope!

# 9,152:

7:57 am PDT, Jul 22, Julie Willis, United Kingdom

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7:52 pm PDT, Jul 21, Dana Hartt, Canada

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