Dear George,
If there is one symbol of the progress you have made in the last six years, it is that shining beacon of enlightenment—Guantanamo.
Your Neocons, in their genius, know that the most efficient way to destroy a democratic republic is to destroy its sense of decency. This is a gradual process though which the public is slowly acculturated to torture, brutality, injustice and the erosion of freedom. Gitmo is the test tube where you have mixed this toxic brew. It’s been a long struggle, but the public is settling into a relaxed apathy towards torture, black holes and the loss of its liberty.
Gitmo has given us much of the “newspeak” that is paving the way for your New World Order. It is Gitmo where that gem of a semantic expression “unlawful enemy combatant” came to maturity. This poetically simple phrase has been instrumental in turning the law asshole over bellybutton. From it, a simple credo has emerged: Once an unlawful enemy combatant, always an enemy combatant. They are guilty until proven innocent, which they never are. This is a tectonic legal shift drowned out by the drone of iPods and television sets that have numbed the American public's grey matter.
The crème de la crème of all this is that there is no more innocence because officials are convinced that it is dangerous to transfer detainees out of Gitmo even if they are innocent.
You’ll note I said, “detainees,” not, “prisoners.” According to the semantic soft shoe to which your administration dances, Gitmo is not a prison; it is a detention center. This makes it so much nicer.
The history books of the future will sing Gitmo’s praises much as they sing the praises of our early pioneers who brought the blessings of civilization to an untamed land teeming with dumb animals and dumb savages. Gitmo also brings the light of civilization to the morass of a legal system corrupted by archaic notions of liberty and freedom.
There is, however, an element of risk in this, as there is for all pioneers. Should the American public ever wake up to what you are doing, you, your handlers and your minions could find yourselves sitting in the defendants docket at the twenty-first century version of the Nuremberg Trials.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
4:59:32 AM 
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