an officer asked me at the Tiki Bar, where I was told those who work with the detainees come to drink. You have 4 free articles remaining this month, Sign-up to our daily newsletter for more articles like this + access to 5 extra articles. Not merely if laws are being carried out correctly, but if laws that are being carried out should even be carried out in the first place. His least bad option, it seems, is to appear to want very much to close Guantanamo (which he does), and to talk and act as if he is doing all he can, but to capitulate in the end. It is not the case that detainees in Guantanamo receive no due process of law; indeed, both Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld did much to improve the legal rights of the accused, requiring that enemy combatants be able to challenge their status in front of military commissions, and also setting certain–though still meager–standards with which these commissions must adhere to. His research interests include non‐​ideal political theory and public reason liberalism. A woman tried to buy me lemon drops at O'Kelly's. You can eat Jamaican food at the Jerk House, but nobody does. You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. I am acutely aware that the situation calls for sobriety. The G uantánamo Bay Data Project serves as a central source of information on the G uantánamo Bay Military Prison. I think so, though perhaps we are closer to the truth of the matter than we were before. The cell blocks have arrows that point to Mecca. As such, denying due process is morally bad. No, It's Your Tuition Bill. A version of this claim was posted on … Since the Guantanamo Bay detention facility does lack these two features we can thus conclude that it is a morally bad place, answering our original question as to why the detention facility strikes us … Guantanamo Bay detention camp, U.S. detention facility on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, located on the coast of Guantanamo Bay in southeastern Cuba. Guantanamo Bay is an American naval base-turned-detention camp located on the Southeastern tip of Cuba. The Obama Administration made it one of their running points that Guantanamo bay needed to be closed. History can be cruel like that. Torture at Guantanamo The torture included but was not limited to waterboarding, sexual harassment and abuse, physical abuse, and sleep deprivation. Obviously enough, the ability of detainees to exercise these two important features of due process is contingent on their ability to have a day in a fair court, not merely to show up to what seems like a one‐​sided military commission. Guantanamo Bay … These are a public service notice urging moderate alcohol consumption, though when I showed a colleague back in New York City some That Guy swag, he thought it was an injunction against talking loosely about the detainees. So I switched to Bass. To them, you're just a freak, like me! Under such conditions, is Guantanamo now morally good, or at the very least not morally bad? It is due to the presence of these inhumane practices within the facility, it might be argued, that gives Guantanamo its suspect moral status. Sampson Elementary School, a few of whom stand legitimately accused of trying to kill Americans through various acts of terror. Dinner there costs about $4. It is neither Cuba nor America, though it is definitely both. When I was in Guantánamo in January, posters advertised the imminent arrival of "The Most Interesting Man in the World" from those funny Dos Equis commercials. It is next to the Windjammer Café, down the block from the bowling alley, the golf course and the skate park, not to mention the schools, the marina, a thrift store, a McDonald's, a Taco Bell and, in the airfield waiting room, a Subway. The tagline of Radio GTMO is "Rockin' in Fidel's Backyard," while O'Kelly's advertises itself as "the only Irish pub on Communist soil," which may be true. Guantanamo Bay Naval Station will still be around regardless of whether the detention center is ever shut down or not. What Is Guantanamo Bay? Brian Kogelmann graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a B.A. Here is why: most people believe that torture, in some cases, is morally justified. Due process also allows litigants to challenge the content of specific laws–it allows our detainees to question whether what is being done to them is just, or whether what is being done to them is constitutional. President Barack Obama signed an executive order on January 22, 2009, to close the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay within a year. Under such circumstances–where only justified torture takes place in Guantanamo–is there still something morally problematic with the detention camp? The claim: The Trump administration ordered Guantánamo Bay to prepare for 'high-level' American prisoners. They used to call Guantánamo "Git Mo'," a reference to the brothels of the nearby town of Caimanera, where one pleasure-seeker found Cuban prostitutes "accommodating 'our boys' in ways Mother never intended." One can only speculate on the future of Guantanamo Bay and as history suggests, its utility and habitation are ever-changing. Everyone on base knows to stand erectly when "The Star-Spangled Banner" plays through a loudspeaker at 8 every morning. Two enormous "golf balls" stand atop a high hill, visible from nearly everywhere on base, as impossible to escape as the Eiffel Tower is in Paris. Guantánamo Bay has what may be the last Blockbuster outlet on Earth. Hardly. Here is one reason to believe that Guantanamo is morally bad: it is morally bad because it stands in defiance of both national and international law. Congress objected. At home and around the world, Guantánamo has become a symbol of injustice, abuse, and disregard for the rule of law. George W. Bush did not, though his administration is wholly responsible for the erection of the detention center and the byzantine judicial reasoning deployed to sustain it. Most libertarians, I believe, think Guantanamo Bay is somehow morally bad. These days, on Friday nights, one of these beaches is used by the Filipino population for what I understand is a quite lively karaoke party. The Least Bad Options For Guantanamo Bay At the Guantanamo Bay detention center, 166 prisoners remain detained. The number of detainees held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has slowly shrunk from hundreds to the current count of 91. To continue reading login or create an account. A Navy guard patrols Camp Delta’s detainee recreation yard during the early morning at Guantanamo Bay naval base in a July 7, 2010 file photo provided by the US Army. Guantanamo Bay: Why was it set up, what are the controversies and why does Obama want to close it? Guantanamo Bay detention camp, sometimes referred to Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo, or Gitmo, is a US military prison that detains inmates without trial. This project provides a comprehensive picture of the prison, centering the lives of the boys and men detained at the naval base. Constructed in stages starting in 2002, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp was used to house Muslim militants and suspected terrorists. The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and "Gitmo" (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ t m oʊ /), which is on the coast of Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.As of January 2021, 731 of the 780 people detained were transferred, 40 remain and 9 died while in custody. Signs abound on base warning against becoming "That Guy." Like pretty much everything else at Guantánamo Bay, this sounds too ridiculous to not be true. You can eat Cuban food at the Cuban Club, but nobody does that either. Some say the Cubans on the other side of the 17-mile fence that encloses Gitmo eat iguanas. They decided to cast their lot with Uncle Sam when Fidel Castro came to power in 1959 and now live in a community that looks like a miniature Miami subdivision. The problem here is that due process does more than simply remedy potential epistemological problems, though it certainly does that. Nor has President Barack Obama, who promised to close the detention camps opened by his predecessor. Its true nature and inner workings are somewhat elusive to the American public and are under constant scrutiny. Guantanamo Bay as Detention Center . Much closer is the impoverished nation of Haiti. Would we be justified in torturing our bomber to learn the location of the bomb? This determination, obviously enough, is litigated in court when determining whether someone is guilty or innocent. I therefore did not take pictures of the radomes, because though the fear is unreasonable, it feels as though even a minor infraction at Gitmo is going to land you in an orange jumpsuit, behind the barbed wire of Camp Delta. in philosophy and a B.A. By implication, lacking these two essential features is a morally bad thing. The underwater vistas are sublime in their clarity. One prisoner at Guantanamo is Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yaxidi who has been a prisoner since Guantanamo opened in January of 2002. That same waiting room has a fine collection of warplane models. Even so, in the trial, the accused were not allowed to challenge the content–that is, the constitutionality or justness–of our hypothetical law. When detainees are denied their day in court then these epistemological worries go unaddressed, leaving it indeterminate whether detainees really ought to be in the detention facility or not. I stuck to Dogfish. The only thing that could have been more surreal than watching that sanguinary tragedy with the soldiers of Guantánamo Bay would have been to watch it with the detainees of Guantánamo Bay. This is generally a desperate enterprise, as Internet service on base recalls all the frustrations of the dial-up era, only without the screeching sound of a connection finally made. Internationally, detention practices at Guantanamo remain in violation of several statutes of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), a multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 16, 1966, and enforced from March 23, 1976 forward. WASHINGTON — As tropical rains swamped the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay this summer and fall, raw sewage sloshed inside the cells where … Political poison: What’s going on in Guantanamo Bay? It isn't bad, though the place closes at 6:30. Guantánamo Bay is a colonial outpost, military base, detention center, beach resort and sleepy fishing village crammed into 45 square miles of rocky Caribbean coast. We also do not know where the bomb is located. By implication Guantanamo is not morally bad because of its questionable legal status. Religion hangs in the air of Gitmo like midafternoon humidity, so pervasive you need not speak about it. Voices silenced When this second, substantive feature of due process is present, then we begin fleshing out why due process is so important a thing, and also why the lack of due process in places like Guantanamo is so bad. While there are many statutes composing the ICCPR, it remains a relatively uncontroversial fact that detention practices at Guantanamo stand in defiance of several requirements of the multilateral treaty, namely articles seven, nine, and fourteen. Even with the presence of this non‐​robust conception of due process, is Guantanamo Bay still morally bad? Guantánamo Bay is where you can order a slice from Pizza Hut inside an Irish pub in which most everyone is drinking Bud Light. It's a Yacht. If the above counterfactual is too difficult for the reader to imagine, or if the reader believes that torture (as many libertarians do) is never justified, then consider this: imagine that, in some possible world, every fact about Guantanamo remained the same, except no torture whatsoever took place there. in political science. At the beginning of 2018, Donald Trump placed an executive order that would keep Guantanamo Bay open indefinitely to detain “bad dudes”. Guantanamo Bay is divided into two parts; Naval Station and JTF or Joint Task Force; meaning all branches of the military working together. The oldest of them, Ramon Baudin, is 91. Or maybe the one after. As waves slap against the shore, you can forget about Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who allegedly helped perpetrate the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, which killed 17 American sailors. Moreover, it could also be argued that detention practices at Guantanamo stand in defiance of national law as well, particularly the guarantee of due process secured through the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, though this is a much more controversial claim. He wanted to transfer the detainees to a prison in Illinois. Something still seems off to most of us–suggesting that torture is not the rasion d’être of the moral badness. It might be true that Guantanamo is morally bad because it refuses to give its detainees the full extent of due process given to other individuals tried within the U.S. criminal justice system. Most of the 2,000 laborers here are Jamaican and Filipino. The recent rash of hunger strikes occurring at Guantanamo–in which as many as 45 detainees are refusing to eat, thirteen of which are being force-fed–has brought the secretive detention facility back into national headlines, if only for a few moments. Now he spends all day outside, listening to his Panasonic radio, which appears to be as nearly ancient as he is. Elise Swain March 3 2019, 12:30 p.m. Here is one reason why refusing due process to detainees is morally problematic: due process constitutes an institutional check on the epistemological problems we face when imprisoning individuals. This is because actions and institutions cannot be morally wrong solely because they are in defiance of the law; such a view would commit us to absurd conclusions. Given the timeliness, I would like to take the opportunity to explore Guantanamo Bay in a more philosophical manner than is usually done. For example, suppose there was a law requiring every parent to kill off their children until they were left with only two offspring. The ones aboveground are ridiculously plain, dry hills punctuated by low buildings of mustard and maroon, constructed with such obvious haste and lack of imagination that they make your average suburban strip mall look like the Taj Mahal. But as the climbing sun blanches the petrified coral cliffs, you just might be reminded of the white promontories of Dover, England, the ones where the poet Matthew Arnold famously saw "ignorant armies clash by night.". Doubtfully. Nor do you have to think about, unless you truly want to, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the status of supposedly stateless "enemy combatants," the Geneva Conventions or habeas corpus. This list deficiencies, the reader should be reminded, constitutes a mere proper subset of all the problems inherent within the current military commission system. In seeking out terrorists and other enemy combatants to imprison within the detention facility, the U.S. uses specific criteria that certain individuals must satisfy in order to be considered someone who ought to be locked up. Maybe there is a Mongolian contingent here as well; Gitmo, after all, is not a place that easily yields its secrets. See why nearly a quarter of a million subscribers begin their day with the Starting 5. Nor about the thousands of Haitian refugees who came here in the 1990s in a fruitless search for asylum, nor about how Fidel Castro called the naval base here "a dagger plunged into the heart of Cuban soil," nor about how American forces established a foothold here in 1898, defeating Spain and helping Cuba achieve independence, for which favor the United States was given "complete jurisdiction and control" over this crescent of land in 1903. It, too, is called "the Pearl of the Antilles." Gitmo is supposedly "the Pearl of the Antilles," a nickname for this remote tip of Cuba, where dry scrubland tumbles toward the sea and lazy iguanas bake in the noonday heat. The beaches are best at sunset, when the coral rocks are aflame with an auburn glow. Guantánamo Bay evokes morbid images the world over, but the place is, let's be honest, fundamentally ridiculous, so bizarre that you have to laugh at its existence. Life's irenic rhythms are apparently not threatened by the 154 men imprisoned at the detention camp just over the hill from the W.T. His real name is Jonathan Goldsmith. After an inspection the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) concluded that the institutional infrastructure present within Guantanamo “cannot be considered other than an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture.” Reported practices included humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes, and forced positions. When detainees are granted the ability to (1) determine whether they have actually violated specific laws that we claim they have violated and (2) challenge the content of the laws they are being charged with violating, then we begin approaching fairness. As a member of the presumably respectable press, I was also called "the enemy" a couple of times, which was strange and ironic and sort of sad. "What the hell was Vanity Fair doing here?" Guantánamo Bay is a warped American dream, a caliginous sliver of our imperial legacy soothed by the gentle lapping of the Caribbean Sea. There are so many playgrounds that I lost count after 10. You're not! Guantanamo Bay allowed for the wrongful imprisonment of innocent people, but it has also undoubtedly housed very dangerous criminals. Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes arrived in Gitmo for a faux vacation in 1972, extolling the "strangely tranquil" base's recreation while explaining, with just the right touch of glee, that its beaches were inaccessible to the average American. I don't quite know why. One night, I went to one of the base's outdoor movie theaters to watch Lone Survivor, about a disastrous 2005 mission in the mountains of Afghanistan that left 19 Americans dead. As such, we cannot commit ourselves to the position that actions and institutions are morally wrong because they are in defiance of the law. Down to just 40 inmates, the future of Guantanamo Bay could change under a Biden administration The prevalent bearded foe is Fidel, not Osama. Though some Americans who have their families on base do relish their Pleasantville-on-the-Caribbean fantasy, most people at Guantánamo Bay would love to be on that flight back to the States. Now consider the relation between this corollary and Guantanamo: suppose it was true we knew for a fact that every instance of torture happening in Guantanamo was of the type that we could confidently predicate as morally just. The detention camps are "inside the wire" or "the JTF side," a reference to the Joint Task Force Guantánamo created in 2002 to manage the suspected terrorists brought here. Since the Guantanamo Bay detention facility does lack these two features we can thus conclude that it is a morally bad place, answering our original question as to why the detention facility strikes us as morally problematic. Sometimes, detainees go on hunger strike and have to be force-fed. I could have also gotten my daughter toddler-sized Navy fatigues, but that seemed like a waste for someone who is not yet old enough to fully appreciate irony. Not that Gitmo lacks visitors of the voluntary variety. By implication, lacking these two essential features is a morally bad thing. The toy has a "Guantánamo Bay, Cuba" medallion on its side and a disgustingly accurate tail. The controversy surrounding the Guantanamo Bay detention facility is one that ebbs and flows throughout our national discourse. Again, obviously not. Even though detainees at Guantanamo lack access to as robust a conception of due process as we receive in the U.S., it is still not clear why this is such a bad thing. Then the Dogfish ran out, because all goods arrive at Gitmo on a barge that comes only twice each month. Currently, we are a time of more flow than ebb. Don't talk like one of them. While due process’ ability to remedy the epistemological problems of justice we face is important, it is not sufficiently important to make the lack of due process morally bad. We don’t even need to delve into the realm of counterfactuals to prove this point: were the actions of Harriet Tubman and other abolitionists, who sought to free slaves by providing passage to the north in violation of the Fugitive Slave Act, morally wrong? But even so, torture is still happening in the facility. The legal construction of Guantanamo Bay as a lawless space means that it can readily be used to isolate those on the very margins, considered a “risk” by the US. Since its opening, the Guantanamo Bay detention center has imprisoned nearly 800 people. In 1903, the American government signed a lease that granted them access to this site and allowed them to use it as a coaling station for U.S. Navy ships. The reporter Carol Rosenberg has been covering Guantánamo Bay since before it became a “war on terror” prison camp — and she’s still at it. 1 decade ago. Going unmentioned for months at a time, some timely issue pertaining to torture or due process or our current war on terror will bring Guantanamo back into the national spotlight for but a few fleeting moments, only to be forgotten again in exchange for more timely issues. Although the U.S. government has denied allegations of torture, released prisoners have corroborated the ICRC report, claiming that beatings, sleep deprivation, prolonged hoodings, along with other torturous practices occurred. Everyone on base strategically confuses old enemies with new ones. That is, except for the 22 Cubans who live on base. Here we are, after the Presidential reign of Barack Obama and Gitmo bay is still open. Guantánamo Bay is a colonial outpost, military base, detention center, beach resort and sleepy fishing village crammed into 45 square miles of rocky Caribbean coast. It may be tantamount to laughter at a funeral, but it's laughter all the same. 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