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NEWS > U.S.A. > MANY SOLDIERS STILL FEELING TRAPPED IN GUANTANAMO
MANY SOLDIERS STILL FEELING TRAPPED IN GUANTANAMO
October 6 2011
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba – Innocent people are imprisoned every day. Not just the people who claim their innocence, but people who are actually innocent. Sometimes those people are tangentially connected to the crimes for which they have been connected, and sometimes they aren’t associated at all. Occasionally those crimes are only marginally crimes at all and the people become pawns of a greater scheme, a geopolitical nightmare which has nothing to do with them.
That argument has been made for the recently released hikers in Iran, and for Amanda Knox and her trial, and for many in the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. While it is common for criminals to proclaim their innocence, just as many have done in Guantanamo, generally they do receive trials, something not afforded those in the most famous military prison in the world.
That, alongside false promises of closures and trials, has left many feeling trapped by the walls of the infamous prison. Not just the prisoners, mind you, but also the guards who want little more than to return to their families and the lives they left behind.
“I’ve been here a long time, too long. Nearly a year and I just can’t stand it. I know that being in the military means being away from your family but here it’s different. This isn’t the adventure I signed up for, this is like prison,” said one guard on the condition of anonymity. “I feel trapped here, you know, like I can’t ever get out of here. I keep asking for transfers and the message gets passed on and on but never seems to go anywhere and I’m still here every day. It sucks.”
Prisoners have complained about similar treatment, though many of them have been in the prison much longer.
“We get that we have to be here, that there is no way out of here but somedays you just feel like you aren’t ever going to get out. The bosses, they tell you that they are going to look at letting you go, and maybe transferring you to another facility, but it never happens. You just wake up here the same way every day,” said another guard. “I just want to get out, to feel free. To feel that I don’t have to wake up in the same place every single day. I want to be free, I want to get out in the world and be a real person again and I just can’t do that here.”
Many prisoners at the facility say the same thing, albeit with heavy accents and a lot more crying which makes it very difficult to understand what they are saying.
“There are few places in the world where we can see, so clearly, the secret prison system. Guantanamo Bay is just one of these facilities, every government in the world 
has them. Places where people just go and disappear. It’s a tribute to the American system that they can be so open about their secrets, but that doesn’t really change the trauma of the thing itself,” said Scrape TV Government Oppression analyst Gene Wilkers. “Prisoners and guards alike are all trapped in this constantly churning pool and there doesn’t seem to be any way for them to get out. In ordinary prisons, guards have the option of just leaving, but that isn’t the case here. They are just as trapped as the prisoners, well kind of, and that is just an American tragedy. It’s really quite sad.”
Guards also report that their letters home routinely don’t make it past prison censors.
Mike Michaels, American Correspondent
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