I just got back from hearing James Yee speak.

[no_hypocrisy]

He's the former U.S. Army Muslim Chaplain at Guantanamo Bay prison camp. He was given the Jose Padilla treatment for doing his job too well. Arrested in a government sting operation that was more of a kangaroo court, put in ankle/waist/wrist shackles, underwent sensory deprivation (light-blocking glasses & ear-mufflers), and thrown into an isolated cell in the same government prison where Habib and Padilla were being held for 76 days. Threatened with the death penalty. All charges mysteriously dropped. Government claimed he stole classified documents which A) He didn't steal and B) The documents weren't classified.

The Unitarian Minister who introduced Captain Yee has been to Guantanamo and saw the conditions and the prisoners first hand. He informed the audience that it is indeed a prison camp, not a detention center. And Guantanamo is the epicenter and symbol of the deterioration of civil rights and democracy. We are under a duty to expose the corruption, the cruelty, the lies, and close the damned place.

I cannot unfortunately report that during the question-and-answer period that any real solutions were offered. We concurred the media won't listen to us. Our legislators are listening to entities louder than and with more money than us.

Here's an article about Captain Yee's experience in The New York Review of Books.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18550

Capt. Yee has authored a book about his experience called For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire.