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Related: About this forumAnonymous announces Operation Guantanamo (#OpGTMO)
Greeting Citizens of the World,
We have watched with dismay as a great injustice is being committed by the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT in the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp.
Imagine your Father, Your Brother, Your Husband Arrested
Sold for a bounty.
Black bagged and sent away to a foreign country.
Tortured for years on end.
Accused of being a terrorist.
No trial or charge is given.
No lawyer is brought in.
No one is allowed to see him.
With no end in sight.
With no hope for justice, over 100 men who have been held and tortured for years have gone on a hunger strike. On May 18th, it will have been 100 days since they have eaten voluntarily. Prisoners have died suddenly, violently, and suspiciously. All inmates in Guantanamo Bay have been locked in solitary confinement. Some are being force fed, an international crime. These men face the prospect of a terrible death in prison despite many of them having been cleared for release years ago. One defense attorney has already committed suicide.
It is time for the Obama administration to admit that this is a disgrace for any civilized country which upholds the rule of law. Guantanamo Bay must be closed at once, and the prisoners should be either returned to their home countries or given a fair trial in a federal court. Guantanamo Bay is an ongoing war crime. Anonymous will no longer tolerate this atrocity.
We are outraged. We, the people and Anonymous, will not allow the most expensive prison on earth to be run without any respect for international laws. We stand in solidarity with the Guantanamo hunger strikers. We will shut down Guantanamo.
On May 17 to May 19, to coincide with the 100th day of the hunger strike, we urge everyone to join global actions on the ground and hacktivist protests as well as twitterstorms, email bombs, and fax bombs, in 3 days of nonstop action.
Phonebomb the representatives
Call the White House and insist that President Obama fulfill his promise to close Guantanamo: 202-456-1111, 202-456-1414
Call the U.S. Southern Command to decry the conditions at Guantanamo: 305-437-1213
Call the Department of Defense, voice your concerns about the treatment of hunger strikers: 703-571-3343
Call your senators and representatives and urge them to support the closure of Guantanamo: http://congresslookup.com/
Sign the petition
https://www.change.org/CloseGTMO
For updates
Twitter : @opGTMO
Hashtag: #opGTMO
We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We are Everywhere
We do not Forgive
We do not Forget
Expect us
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Anonymous announces Operation Guantanamo (#OpGTMO) (Original Post)
Catherina
May 2013
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haikugal
(6,476 posts)1. Thanks for posting this.
Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)2. May 17th. Kick. n/t
bunnies
(15,859 posts)3. Yeah... cuz the opUSA "attack" today was such a blaring success.
whatever.
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)7. You do need to learn a little bit about Anon before posting comments that make you look
VERY silly.
Anon is NOT a one homogenous group. YOU can start your own campaign and name it OpBunny, state your goals and get supporters to join.
OpUSA has nothing to do with OpGTMO, though it might share participants.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)4. K&R nt
rdharma
(6,057 posts)5. Another K&R