What’s Going On in Guantanamo?

Re “I, Moazzam Begg, Demand to Be Freed From Guantanamo,” Commentary, Oct. 3:

I volunteered for the privilege to become a U.S. citizen, though like Moazzam Begg I am originally from the United Kingdom. If Begg’s situation poses any questions, these are but a few: What is happening to the uniqueness of the American experiment in government, when we who take such pride in its freedoms, fairness and unrivaled equitable judiciary are increasingly seeing those virtues tainted by the state? Is the Bill of Rights in truth devolving into something more resembling a Bill of Suggestions, the supreme law of the land a platitudinous nod to a less complicated era? If so, what future America does this bode, where the state overextends its authority beyond just those perceived as unsympathetic, like Begg, and instead casts a jaundiced eye toward you and me?

Shannon Joseph

Cream

Anaheim

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I find it very disturbing that Begg and many others are being held in violation of the basic principles of our country. If we truly wish to establish our form of democracy throughout the world, it seems that we must practice that democracy in a consistent manner. The events stated in Begg’s letter indicate that our Constitution and Bill of Rights are not being followed.

I believe that our government has had sufficient time to determine what the imprisoned people should be charged with, and that the American people must be told what is being done in our names at Guantanamo.

Lorraine Priceman

Woodland Hills

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Begg’s letter to U.S. officials was shocking. It is hard to believe that our government could do this injustice. Illegal detentions such as these were committed by King George before the Revolutionary War. That is one reason the colonists fought him. Now our King George does the same thing in the name of justice and freedom.

Ghayth Adhami

Corona