Guantanamo Bay

There is a complacency that I think Britain as a whole is guilty of on an almost daily basis. I am as guilty as the next person myself.

That complacency is to be outraged by some news article or issue one day and then to clean forget about it the next.

Granted, we lead busy lives and there are long spaces of time for each of us when just getting through the days, weeks and months in a happy state, solvent and generally unscathed is a bit of a struggle.

But we have it very, very good here in the UK. With the main parties scrabbling for the coveted centre ground we should be grateful that political debate doesn't involve sentiments such as "if you don't agree with me we'll blow you to smithereens"

There are thousands of news items over the past five years that I could drag out of the archives and receive that guilty feeling over given I personally have done bugger all about it ever since. But the existence of Guantanamo Bay is the biggest millstone hanging around the West's heads and it makes a mockery of civil rights and international justice.


According to the US Department of Defense, approximately 360 men remain detained in Guantánamo held without charge. The prison itself has been in existence for over 5 years.


So I have linked to Amnesty International's "Close Gunatanmo Bay" page and suggest clicking on the "Get Involved" section.


With a possible general election coming up, now may be the ideal time to exert some pressure on our new PM to engage his moral compass and do what he can to end an injustice that has gone on for far too long.