Peacock Dreams

Guantanamo

yezida

1/11/08 01:14 pm

Happy Anniversary.

To all the prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, I am sorry. Sorry you've been rotting there for 6 years now. Sorry most of you are unlawfully and wrongfully imprisoned. Sorry that the US thinks torture is a fitting action.

To all the guards at Guantanamo Bay, I am sorry. Sorry you have been trained to dehumanize yourself and others. No one should have to do this to another being.

I once overheard a Marine say to his seat neighbor on an airplane, "The end justifies the means. As long as my family is safe at night, that's what matters."

I disagree. Everyone has a family that deserves to be safe at night.

We should be ashamed to call this human behavior.

I made a donation to Amnesty International today. I wish I could help you more directly.

I will hold you in my heart today, as well.

love - Thorn

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• sun_set_bravely

  1/11/08 09:54 pm (UTC)

  

  Yes. Yes. Beautifully put. I echo your apologies, and your hopes for something much better for everyone directly involved there.

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• sagamockingbird

  1/11/08 10:55 pm (UTC)

  

  Very well said. It's illegal to do to animals so why is it okay for the govt. to torture people. The whole thing sickens me.

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• meliny

  1/12/08 02:36 am (UTC)

  

  Oops. Thanks for the reminder. I changed my email address but neglected to update with Amnesty International. I'll remedy that now and follow your lead in sending my anniversary wishes via "greenery" to Amnesty Int.

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• fae_raven

  1/12/08 08:07 am (UTC)

  

  Thorn, I Love you, and all that you do. Thank you so much.

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• lillitu_shahar

  1/12/08 06:37 pm (UTC)

  

  ack. how have i not thought about this in so long? privilege can be so invisible.
  
  thanks for the reminder.

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• Desiderata

  trystn

  1/13/08 09:19 am (UTC)

  

  My first duty station was GTMO - in 1986 when it was only a prison for those who had to work there. While I got to see the Caribbean and Central America on R&R, and I've seen things and learned things that would shock most folks, I resent bitterly the stain that the shrub has ground into our honor.
  
  In brighter news, I got my hands on your ms and am enjoying it, although I would like to discuss some angles with you at some length. Some things Feri - in your words - calls "queer" that TIW takes for granted and regards as essential pieces of the nature of the Witch. Perhaps our definitions of this last differs?
  "I was in many shapes before I attained congenial form ... there is nothing that I AM not ..." --- The Radiant Brow
  
  Are you familiar with Chumbley's work relating the Cultus to Melek Taus? Or how it relates to the rest of us in the Norhern Streams? This might be of some interest?

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  • Re: Desiderata

    yezida

    1/15/08 09:10 pm (UTC)

    

    Yes, I am familiar with Chumbley et al.
    
    I would agree with you that the stuff I call "queer" would *seem* to be essential to the nature of the Witch (or magick practitioner, for that matter). But I have found in many traditions that this simply is not so, hence the appearance in so much magick of external gender polarity work, rigid gender assignments to tools etc.

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