Tournament: UM Round Robin | Round: 1 | Opponent: Hooch | Judge: Eric Oddo
In the context of the War on Terrorism, the distinction between legal and illegal combatants is tactically deployed as part of a larger strategy of derealization - deeming a combatant illegal not only suspends the law for that individual, but also establishes a framework to make the lives of entire populations unlivable.
Butler 4 (Judith, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, AND THE DREAM OF HORSES, RHETORIC AT UC-BERKELEY, PRECARIOUS LIFE: THE POWERS OF MOURNING AND VIOLENCE, pgs. 67-68, 2004)
We disagree with the author’s use of gendered language
These acts of state are themselves not grounded in law, … situation is highly, if not fatally, politicized.
Therefore, we begin our discussion with the populations who are deemed unlivable by the larger strategies of the War on Terror - to start with ourselves would simply replicate the ignorance of violence against the Other, which justifies their exclusion from our understanding of the world around us.
Thus, there is no better place to begin than with the individuals of Guantanamo Bay, for the suspension of law at Gitmo has created a new form of state sovereignty which allows for racialized population management, biopolitical control, and the reduction of prisoners to bare life. The prisoners of Guantanamo Bay are no longer deemed humyn, but rather, they have become ‘animated flesh,’ ‘legally unnamable and unclassifiable beings,’ who are socially dead.
Dillon 13 (Stephen, PhD in American Studies at Minnesota, now an Assistant Professor of Queer Studies at Hampshire College, Fugitive Life: Race, Gender, and the Rise of the Neoliberal-Carceral State, A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 2013, http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/153053/1/Dillon_umn_0130E_13833)
We disagree with the author’s use of gendered language
In the last decade, a critique of the carceral systems …monstrous aberration from the domestic have been common among scholars, activists, and journalists.
And, the emotional and physical violence of Guantanamo Bay is further expressed in a passage from Urgent Call, a poem written by Matilde De la Sierra and Jim Manzardo, prisoners of Guantanamo Bay.
we disagree with the authors’ use of gendered language

Blood stained and tainted streets,
Desolate villages covered with mutilated bodies,
Despairing women, mothers, screaming,
Disappeared men,
Crying children in search of their mothers,
Hopelessness, nightmares, darkness,
Bitterness, desolation,
Human and architectural destruction.
Listen well. This is called War, Occupation

We call upon the spirits of Segundo Montes, Maura Clark, Victor Jara and Penny Lernoux who lived in the world of the poor and oppressed, and understood what it was to be powerless, to be like Christ.
Let us enter into solidarity with the poor and oppressed and receive the freedom that transcends even death.

People suspected of being terrorists,
Detained, imprisoned, in deplorable conditions,
Tortured, humiliated, stripped of their dignity.
Human beings crying out to be rescued,
To be liberated from Satan’s hands,
Even pleading to be killed,
To be sucked of their very last drop of blood
Listen well. This is called Guantanamo Bay.
“Where to Learn More About Guantanamo and Why It Should Be Shut Down!,” http://chicagomassaction.org/g-cmaimages/J11_ResourceSheet.pdf
Brief pause
Still unconvinced of the horrors of Guantanamo Bay? Tarek Dergoul shares his experience:

     "I was in extreme pain and so weak that I could barely stand. It was freezing cold and I was shaking like a washing machine. They questioned me at gunpoint and told me that if I confessed I could go home. They had already searched me and my cell twice that day, gone through my stuff, touched my Koran, felt my body around my private parts. And now they wanted to do it again, just to provoke me, but I said no, because if you submit to everything you turn into a zombie.
     I heard a guard talking into his radio, ‘ERF, ERF, ERF,’ and I knew what was coming - the Extreme Reaction Force. The five cowards, I called them - five guys running in with riot gear. They pepper-sprayed me in the face and I started vomiting; in all I must have brought up five cupfuls. They pinned me down and attacked me, poking their fingers in my eyes, and forced my head into the toilet pan and flushed. They tied me up like a beast and then they were kneeling on me, kicking and punching. Finally they dragged me out of the cell in chains, into the rec yard, and shaved my beard, my hair, my eyebrows."

'They tied me up like a beast and began kicking me', 15 May 2004, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/may/16/terrorism.guantanamo
And, the violence committed against these people is a natural consequence of our current ideology - by making these populations unreal we have necessitated their extermination - it is through the omission of perspectives that the discourse of the War on Terror plays its violent games - the 1AC refuses to relegate these lives to the sphere of the unlivable – instead, we reject the foreclosure of these lives by opening the possibility of mourning those who are considered ungrievable.
Butler 4 (Judith, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, AND THE DREAM OF HORSES, RHETORIC AT UC-BERKELEY, PRECARIOUS LIFE: THE POWERS OF MOURNING AND VIOLENCE, pgs. 33-35, 2004)
We disagree with the author’s use of gendered language
If violence is done against those who are unreal, …. also, in the media, for the most part unmarkable and ungrievable.

Therefore, my partner and I affirm the provision of an obituary for those imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay.
Our 1AC is an act of affirmation of those who have been negated by the larger application of the legal/illegal distinction that this decision upholds. This affirmation is essential to opening a space for us to grieve for the persons who have been lost in strategies of violence and aggression. This is a specific strategy of criticism which should not be excluded - attempts to restrain our affirmative by placing arbitrary limits on the game of debate is an extension of a conservative strategy which deems what is and is not sayable. Once it has been decided that our 1AC is treasonous, the atrocities we’ve outlined also remain invisible.
Butler 4 (Judith, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, AND THE DREAM OF HORSES, RHETORIC AT UC-BERKELEY, PRECARIOUS LIFE: THE POWERS OF MOURNING AND VIOLENCE, pgs. xix-xvi, 2004)
Dissent and debate depend upon … ability to think critically and publicly about the effects of war.
Thus, the 1AC is not a call to State action, but rather one of individual protest and dissent, for when we call upon the State to engage in a revolution for our agency the project always fails. Constant simulation is destructive to the cornerstones of our existence. We instead view the ¬¬¬¬¬1AC, this very moment, as a political act, which refuses the State, and instead inhabits a discursive space, which refuses to be co-opted and does not lead to violence or martyrdom.
Bey 91 (Hakim, The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, 1991, http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz3.html#labelTAZ gjm)
I accept this as a fair criticism. I'd make two rejoinders ….the TAZ begins with a simple act of realization.
And, any attempts to bracket off of our protest upholds the state of exception and legitimizes brutal cycles of governmentality
Elmer and Opel 8 (Greg Elmer, associate professor of communication and culture at Ryerson University, PhD in communication from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University, Andy Opel, associate professor of communication at Florida State University, PhD in mass communication from the University of North Carolina, member of the International Communication Association, November 2008, “Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future,” pages 29-41)
SHORTLY AFTER THE LARGE-SCALE PROTESTS against the World …. compliance as it is a technique for reducing actual risks and dangers.
Furthermore, the way that we frame debates is crucial to the implementation of the aff – our questioning is key to the recognition and understanding of the vulnerability of life. Even if they win that the we don’t actually shutdown Gitmo, we create a movement which provides the conditions for a more generalized form of horror and outrage necessary to end all violence – this proves we access spillover.
Butler 10 Judith, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, “Frames of War”, pgs. 10-12, 2010
The frame that seeks to contain, convey, and determine … an undoing that inheres in its doings.
Finally, recognizing the violence committed under the War on Terror in Guantanamo Bay will provide an obituary for those who have been destroyed by the War on Terror, and thereby, establish a politics of grief which refuses to foreclose our vulnerability to violence - this opens up a space for an identification with suffering. Voting affirmative is essential to creating a relationship with the Other that is not based on violence or the urge to exterminate.
Butler 4 (Judith, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, AND THE DREAM OF HORSES, RHETORIC AT UC-BERKELEY, PRECARIOUS LIFE: THE POWERS OF MOURNING AND VIOLENCE, pgs. 30-32, 2004)
We disagree with the author’s use of gendered language
Is there something to be gained from grieving, …. fast and furious support and will not even qualify as "grievable."

Tournament: MBA | Round: 2 | Opponent: Greenhill | Judge: Jeremy Hammond
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Tournament: Lexington | Round: 6 | Opponent: St Vincent de Paul | Judge:
Guantanamo Bay is based on a racialized state narrative derived from a racialized social construction of the terrorist in the aftermath of 9/11
Ahmad 9 Muneer I., “RESISTING GUANTA?NAMO: RIGHTS AT THE BRINK OF DEHUMANIZATION,” Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 103, No. 4, 2009
We disagree with the author’s use of gendered language
At Guanta?namo, the state narrative was… took hold in the entrenched understandings of the Mus- lim subject.
Thus, the post-9/11 world has ushered in a culture of suspicion and prejudice towards Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim – this form of Islamophobia has influenced Western culture and is key to Guantanamo Bay.
Koenigsknecht 12 Theresa Koenigsknecht is Public History MA Candidate at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, “Perspectives on Post 9/11 Prejudices: Islamophobia”, October 04, 2012, http://blog.gitmomemory.org/2012/10/04/perspectives-on-post-911-prejudices-islamophobia/
We disagree with the author’s use of gendered language
Have the September 11th terrorist attacks changed… in time provide an antidote for Islamophobia.
And, this form of institutionalized Islamophobia makes infinite violence possible
Munjid 11 (Achmad, president of the Nahdlatul Ulama community in North America, “Overcoming Islamophobia in the United States,” 3/27/2011,
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/03/27/overcoming-islamophobia-united-states.html)
Remember, as institutionalized hatred… the enemy. Everybody knows what the consequences are.
Furthermore, Western epistemology relies on the Cartesian construction of a subject who views arguments from the point-zero perspective, separating their truth-claims from their point of view deeming knowledge production in the perspective of the Western conqueror - this causes the Islamic Other to be framed as inferior and makes racist policies inevitable.
Grosfoguel and Mielants 6 (Ramón Grosfoguel, University of California - Berkeley, and Eric Mielants, Fairfield University, The Long-Durée Entanglement Between Islamophobia and Racism in the Modern/Colonial Capitalist/Patriarchal World-System: An Introduction, Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge: Vol. 5:Iss. 1, Article 2., 23 September 2006, http://scholarworks.umb.edu/humanarchitecture/vol5/iss1/2, da 10-12-13) PC
We disagree with the author’s use of gendered language
Occidentalism created the epistemic privilege… dismissal of Islamic thinkers.
Thus, my partner and I advocate a critical praxis centered on challenging the Islamophobic policies of Guantanamo Bay.
Centering our praxis in this space is key - interrogating Islamophobia in educational and classroom settings is critical to establish a critical consciousness that enables larger political projects – proves we access spillover to challenge all forms of racism and oppression.
Housee 12, Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Jan. 04 2012, Shirin Housee works at the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, UK “What’s the point? Anti-racism and students’ voices against Islamophobia”, Volume 15, Issue 1
Having reflected on the two seminar sessions…to education that our attention should be directed.’ (162)
Deconstructing and interrogating flawed assumptions behind Islamophobia is critical to establish a transformative and liberatory pedagogy that enables us to challenge racist dynamics
Zine 4, Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies
2004, Jasmin Zine is a researcher studying Muslims in the Canadian diaspora. She teaches graduate courses in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto in the areas of race and ethnicity, anti-racism education and critical ethnography., “Anti-Islamophobia Education as Transformative Pedadogy: Reflections from the Educational Front Lines”, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 21:3
As an anti-racism scholar and ….important to exposing how power operates through the politics of representation.
And, focus on policy action is a manifestation of epistemic racism that reasserts the superiority of Western institutions and norms over Islamic thought and recreates the racial profiling responsible for Guantanamo Bay.
Grosfoguel 10 (Ramo?n Grosfoguel, Epistemic Islamophobia and Colonial Social Sciences, Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self- Knowledge: Vol. 8: Iss. 2, Article 5, 2010, http://scholarworks.umb.edu/humanarchitecture/vol8/iss2/5, da 11-15-13) PC
We disagree with the author’s use of gendered language
The importance of this discussion about… and representation as “terrorist.”
Reliance on the Western political system fails – it is unable to overcome racial discrimination and actually work to conceal and maintain white supremacy, as demonstrated in institutionalized Islamophobia. This furthers a system of domination and exploitation.
Grosfoguel and Mielants 6 (Ramón Grosfoguel, University of California - Berkeley, and Eric Mielants, Fairfield University, The Long-Durée Entanglement Between Islamophobia and Racism in the Modern/Colonial Capitalist/Patriarchal World-System: An Introduction, Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge: Vol. 5:Iss. 1, Article 2., 23 September 2006, http://scholarworks.umb.edu/humanarchitecture/vol5/iss1/2)
It does not matter if the Western domestic…. especially in the¶ United States (Salaita 2006).
Therefore, focus on policy ensures that self-fulfilling prophecies are inevitable. Exposing instances of Islamophobia is key – the reductionist myth of the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by concealing information about the Other, allowing icons to prop up Islamophobia
Bottici and Challand 6 (Chiara Bottici, University of Florence, and Benoit Challand, European University Institute, Rethinking Political Myth: The Clash of Civilizations as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, 2006, European Journal of Social Theory 9(3): 315–336)
According to Seib (2004: 72… not straightforwardly that of a catastrophe’¶ (2003: 24).10
And, discourse and representations matter – they create the very basis for war. What we lack is not a proper scientific or empirical challenge to violence; we lack the cultural critics willing to fight the fear mongering which results in war. As scholars, we have an obligation to refuse and problematize the cultural grammar of risk.
Elliot 12 Emory, University Professor of the University of California and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, Terror, Theory, and the Humanities ed. Di Leo, Open Humanities Press, Online, RSR
We disagree with the author’s use of gendered language
In a 1991 interview for the New York Times Magazine…  what they see and hear.
Therefore, as ethical agents, we must act to prevent instances of Islamophobia even when we are not the directly oppressed individuals – resistance must be a shared, intersectional project that celebrates difference.
Elver 12 Spring 2012, Hilal Elver is a “TEN YEARS AFTER 9/11: RETHINKING COUNTERTERRORISM: Racializing Islam Before and After 9/11: From Melting Pot to Islamophobia”, 21 Transnat'l L. and Contemp. Probs. 119
Scholars who are sensitive … there was no one left to speak out for me. n297
Finally, framing the democratic state as a progressive institution capable of solving its problems reinforces constructions of the East as anti-democratic and barbaric, recreating Orientalism and Otherization.
Volpp 2 (Leti Volpp, Associate Professor, American University, Washington College of Law, The Citizen and the Terrorist, 2002, 49 UCLA L. Rev. 1575)
We are witnessing… that spawn terror.

Tournament: Niles Township | Round: Doubles | Opponent: University of Chicago ZK | Judge: Charles Rutter, Coates-Welsh, Ru
1AC
In the context of the War on Terrorism, the distinction between legal and illegal combatants is tactically deployed as part of a larger strategy of derealization-deeming a combatant illegal not only suspends the law for that individual, but also establishes a framework to make the lives of entire populations unlivable.
Butler 4 (Judith, AND THE DREAM OF HORSES, RHETORIC AT UC-BERKELEY, PRECARIOUS LIFE: THE POWERS OF MOURNING AND VIOLENCE, pgs. 67-68, 2004)
We disagree with the author’s use of gendered language
These acts of state are themselves not grounded in law,…fabric of life, even as one's situation is highly, if not fatally, politicized.
Therefore, we begin our discussion with the populations who are deemed unlivable by the larger strategies of the War on Terror - to start with ourselves would simply replicate the ignorance of violence against the Other, which justifies their exclusion from our understanding of the world around us.
Show the image of the little girl
Why is it that images like this small girl who is bleeding and screaming after US soldiers shot and killed her parents are excluded from our coverage of the war? Why is it that this murder was blamed on poor aim, and pushed into non-existence? It is our separation from these images and stories that allows us to deny our responsibility for the violence that is committed in the name of the War on Terror
Butler 4 (Judith, AND THE DREAM OF HORSES, RHETORIC AT UC-BERKELEY, PRECARIOUS LIFE: THE POWERS OF MOURNING AND VIOLENCE, pgs. 5-7, 2004)
Our own acts of violence do not receive graphic coverage in the press….insist upon it, with long-term implications for the future shape and possibility of global cooperation.
And, the emotional and physical violence carried out in the name of the War on Terror is no more apparent than in the case of Guantanamo Bay, as expressed in a passage from Urgent Call, a poem written by Matilde De la Sierra and Jim Manzardo, prisoners of Guantanamo Bay.

Blood stained and tainted streets,
Desolate villages covered with mutilated bodies,
Despairing women, mothers, screaming,
Disappeared men,
Crying children in search of their mothers,
Hopelessness, nightmares, darkness,
Bitterness, desolation,
Human and architectural destruction.
Listen well. This is called War, Occupation

We call upon the spirits of Segundo Montes, Maura Clark, Victor Jara and Penny Lernoux who lived in the world of the poor and oppressed, and understood what it was to be powerless, to be like Christ.
Let us enter into solidarity with the poor and oppressed and receive the freedom that transcends even death.

People suspected of being terrorists,
Detained, imprisoned, in deplorable conditions,
Tortured, humiliated, stripped of their dignity.
Human beings crying out to be rescued,
To be liberated from Satan’s hands,
Even pleading to be killed,
To be sucked of their very last drop of blood
Listen well. This is called Guantanamo Bay.
“Where to Learn More About Guantanamo and Why It Should Be Shut Down!,” http://chicagomassaction.org/g-cmaimages/J11_ResourceSheet.pdf
Brief pause
Still unconvinced of the horrors of Guantanamo Bay? Tarek Dergoul shares his experience:

     "I was in extreme pain and so weak that I could barely stand. It was freezing cold and I was shaking like a washing machine. They questioned me at gunpoint and told me that if I confessed I could go home. They had already searched me and my cell twice that day, gone through my stuff, touched my Koran, felt my body around my private parts. And now they wanted to do it again, just to provoke me, but I said no, because if you submit to everything you turn into a zombie.
     I heard a guard talking into his radio, ‘ERF, ERF, ERF,’ and I knew what was coming - the Extreme Reaction Force. The five cowards, I called them - five guys running in with riot gear. They pepper-sprayed me in the face and I started vomiting; in all I must have brought up five cupfuls. They pinned me down and attacked me, poking their fingers in my eyes, and forced my head into the toilet pan and flushed. They tied me up like a beast and then they were kneeling on me, kicking and punching. Finally they dragged me out of the cell in chains, into the rec yard, and shaved my beard, my hair, my eyebrows."

'They tied me up like a beast and began kicking me', 15 May 2004, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/may/16/terrorism.guantanamo
brief pause
But, words are not enough to depict the horrors of Gitmo - the images you are about to see depict just a few of the lives that we have deemed unlivable, and thus, less valuable than our own. Because we view them as unlivable and less valuable, we ignore their deaths, beat, humiliate, and torture them, but we do not grieve for them…
Insert Gitmo pictures
And, the violence committed against these people is a natural consequence of our current ideology - by making these populations unreal we have necessitated their extermination - it is through the omission of images and perspectives that the discourse of the War on Terror plays its violent games - the 1AC refuses to relegate these lives to the sphere of the unlivable – instead, we reject the foreclosure of these lives by opening the possibility of mourning those who are considered ungrievable.
Butler 4 (Judith, AND THE DREAM OF HORSES, RHETORIC AT UC-BERKELEY, PRECARIOUS LIFE: THE POWERS OF MOURNING AND VIOLENCE, pgs. 33-35, 2004)
We disagree with the author’s use of gendered language
If violence is done against those who are unreal, then…Africa are also, in the media, for the most part unmarkable and ungrievable.
The images we’ve shown you were graphic and disturbing. Hopefully, they made you feel uncomfortable - for they should inspire a sense of remorse, outrage, and hopefully, grief.
Insert Napalm picture
In the same way that images like this one of children burning and dying from Napalm attacks produced an ethical outrage and protest against the Vietnam War, images of the people tortured and killed by our aggression and War on Terror can produce an ethic which allows us to adequately recognize the violence we commit against the Other. It is the graphic nature of the images displayed that allows for the disruption the hegemonic field of representation, and the entire sense of public identity that was founded on it.
Butler 4 (Judith, AND THE DREAM OF HORSES, RHETORIC AT UC-BERKELEY, PRECARIOUS LIFE: THE POWERS OF MOURNING AND VIOLENCE, pgs. 150-51, 2004)
We disagree with the author’s use of gendered language
In the Vietnam War, it was the pictures of the children …. instigation to a sensate democracy they occasionally perform.
Therefore, my partner and I advocate that the United Stated federal government should end its lease over Guantanamo Bay with Cuba.
This act is an affirmation of those who have been negated by the larger application of the legal/illegal distinction that this decision upholds. This affirmation is essential to opening a space for us to grieve for the persons who have been lost in strategies of violence and aggression advanced in the name of the War on Terrorism. This is a specific strategy of criticism which should not be excluded - attempts to restrain our affirmative by placing arbitrary limits on the game of debate is an extension of a conservative strategy which deems what is and is not sayable in order to control the public sphere of debate. Once it has been decided that our 1AC is treasonous, and can’t be seen or heard, the atrocities we’ve outlined also become invisible. You should reject the strategy of quelling dissent, for it is too easily incorporated into larger strategies of derealization of life.
Butler 4 (Judith, AND THE DREAM OF HORSES, RHETORIC AT UC-BERKELEY, PRECARIOUS LIFE: THE POWERS OF MOURNING AND VIOLENCE, pgs. xix-xvi, 2004)
Dissent and debate depend upon the inclusion of those who maintain … as well as the ability to think critically and publicly about the effects of war.
Finally, by ending our lease over Guantanamo Bay with Cuba, we provide an obituary for those who have been destroyed by the War on Terror, and thereby, establish a politics of grief which refuses to foreclose our vulnerability to violence - this opens up a space for an identification with suffering. Voting affirmative is essential to creating a relationship with the Other that is not based on violence or the urge to exterminate.
Butler 4 (Judith, AND THE DREAM OF HORSES, RHETORIC AT UC-BERKELEY, PRECARIOUS LIFE: THE POWERS OF MOURNING AND VIOLENCE, pgs. 30-32, 2004)
We disagree with the author’s use of gendered language
Is there something to be gained from grieving, …. not find such fast and furious support and will not even qualify as "grievable."

Tournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
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Tournament: U of M | Round: 5 | Opponent: Mona Shores | Judge:
And the emotional and physical violence of Guantanamo Bay is further outlined in Is It True?, a poem written Osama Abu Kamir, a former prisoner of Guantanamo Bay

Is it true that the grass grows again after rain?
Is it true that the flowers will rise up again in the Spring?
Is it true that birds will migrate home again?
Is it true that the salmon swim back up their streams?

It is true. This is true. These are all miracles.
But is it true that one day we'll leave Guantánamo Bay?
Is it true that one day we'll go back to our homes?
I sail in my dreams. I am dreaming of home.

To be with my children, each one part of me;
To be with my wife and the ones that I love;
To be with my parents, my world's tenderest hearts.
I dream to be home, to be free from this cage.

But do you hear me, oh Judge, do you hear me at all?
We are innocent, here, we've committed no crime.
Set me free, set us free, if anywhere still
Justice and compassion remain in this world!

Tournament: U of M | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Highland Park | Judge:
And the emotional and physical violence of Guantanamo Bay is further outlined in Is It True?, a poem written Osama Abu Kamir, a former prisoner of Guantanamo Bay

Is it true that the grass grows again after rain?
Is it true that the flowers will rise up again in the Spring?
Is it true that birds will migrate home again?
Is it true that the salmon swim back up their streams?

It is true. This is true. These are all miracles.
But is it true that one day we'll leave Guantánamo Bay?
Is it true that one day we'll go back to our homes?
I sail in my dreams. I am dreaming of home.

To be with my children, each one part of me;
To be with my wife and the ones that I love;
To be with my parents, my world's tenderest hearts.
I dream to be home, to be free from this cage.

But do you hear me, oh Judge, do you hear me at all?
We are innocent, here, we've committed no crime.
Set me free, set us free, if anywhere still
Justice and compassion remain in this world!

New Poem Two
And the emotional and physical violence of Guantanamo Bay is further outlined in Humiliated In The Shackles, a poem written Sami al Hajj, a prisoner of Guantanamo Bay

When I heard pigeons cooing in the trees,
Hot tears covered my face.
When the lark chirped, my thoughts composed
A message for my son.
Mohammad, I am afflicted.
In my despair, I have no one but Allah for comfort.
The oppressors are playing with me,
As they move freely around the world.
They ask me to spy on my countrymen,
Claiming it would be a good deed.
They offer me money and land,
And freedom to go where I please.
Their temptations seize
My attention like lightning in the sky.
But their gift is an empty snake,
Carrying hypocrisy in its mouth like venom,
They have monuments to liberty
And freedom of opinion, which is well and good.
But I explained to them that
Architecture is not justice.
America, you ride on the backs of orphans,
And terrorize them daily.
Bush, beware.
The world recognizes an arrogant liar.
To Allah I direct my grievance and my tears.
I am homesick and oppressed.
Mohammad, do not forget me.
Support the cause of your father, a God-fearing man.
I was humiliated in the shackles.
How can I now compose verses? How can I now write?
After the shackles and the nights and the suffering and the tears,
How can I write poetry?
My soul is like a roiling sea, stirred by anguish,
Violent with passion.
I am a captive, but the crimes are my captors'.
I am overwhelmed with apprehension.
Lord, unite me with my son Mohammad.
Lord, grant success to the righteous.
“Inmates' Words: The Poems of Guantanamo,” June 21, 2007, https://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/21/2017