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Gitmo Reminds Us of Our Tyranny

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2025
If none of us had ever read a dangerous book or had a friend who was different, if we never joined an organization that advocated change, we’d all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. We’re going to go with the story because the terror is right here in this room.
– Edward R. Murrow

 

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
January 7, 2025
Gitmo Reminds Us of Our Tyranny
If there is any beneficial aspect to the Pentagon-CIA torture center, prison camp, and kangaroo “judicial” system at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it is that it stands as an ongoing, constant reminder to the American people as to the tyrannical governmental system under which we live. This is an especially important for those Americans who love thanking God for being an American because at …
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