To: President Donald Trump
Close Guantanamo Prison and turn it into a National Park.
The Park Service should memorialize one of the darkest times in this American Experiment with Democracy and the destruction of human rights with torture made legal by executive policy. It should testify, lest we forget, that zealousness and paranoia corrupted our leaders to subvert principles of the Rights of Man our forefathers fought and died for. Just as Auschwitz remains in Germany as their reminder, our nation needs a similar memorial to the infamous treatment of unarmed prisoners.
Why is this important?
We as a nation must seek some accounting of the crimes that have been committed in the mistaken belief that our leaders knew how to protect our nation's security with vile acts and unprincipled torture perpetrated on unarmed and often innocent men.