GUANTANAMO DIARY
January 22, 2015
Most of today’s “Democracy Now!”
program is devoted to the Guantanamo
Diary (Larry Siems, Ed.) of prisoner
Mohamed Ould Slahi (http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/22/inside_the_us_torture_chambers_prisoners). Morris Davis, who resigned as chief military
prosecutor shortly after getting acquainted with Slahi, describes him as
innocent, and remarkably forgiving of his captors for following orders (some of
whom teach him how to play chess well enough to beat them). After 12 years, Slahi remains a prisoner,
sustained no doubt by the measure of support he has received from those who
appear in today’s program.
Slahi’s story confirms my belief
in our capacity to acknowledge the violence in ourselves that we seek to
destroy in others, and the indomitability of human resistance to responding in
kind or as ordered. That is the material
of which peace is made. Love and peace,
hal
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