I'm Back!

So I deleted (more like hid, actually, but I digress) this blog for a while. Only now it's back. I mostly deleted it due to school stuff. But now that my level of school stress has been lowered (i.e. the semester's over, and I switched into honors world for second semester) I decided to put it back up. I'm still vegan, by the way. And I'm still working at the library. Not sure if anything about me has really changed since the last post...

So since I'm back, I'm going to jump right in and start talking about Gitmo. So it has been a year and two days since Obama promised that he would close Gitmo in a year (i.e. his deadline was two days ago and he missed it). And is it closed? Why of course not! (I may have become more critical of Obama since I last posted...). In fact, Obama has already decided to illegally detain without a trial FIFTY PEOPLE from Gitmo. Fifty.

So I've decided that tomorrow, I'm going to write a letter to him about how we need to close Gitmo. Some of my planned main points are as follows:
Infinite detention is a violation of due process and doesn't work with the idea of "innocent until proven guilty"
This actually hurts us to keep Gitmo open because you know those terrorists everyone's so afraid of? This is actually helping their recruitment efforts.
The justice system that we have (i.e. no military commissions) is perfectly able to deal with any of these people: if there's no evidence, the prisoners should be released and transferred to the appropriate country

And that's the gist of it. It's just ridiculous that even with a Democratic president, a majority of Democrats in the House and Senate, etc., we can't even manage to follow our own Constitution! And I also feel that Obama's hushing the whole Gitmo thing up. It feels like he's hoping everyone will just forget about it and that maybe he really doesn't have any interest in remedying the situation. And that scares me. Which is why I'm writing the letter.