La Generosidad del Imperio

No recuerdo haberme quedado tan helado en mucho tiempo como quedé luego de haber leído estos artículos.

El primero salió en el Wall Street Journal hace poco más de un mes, sobre la publicación de versos escritos por presos en Guantánamo que son hoy material de estudio en diversas universidades en los Estados Unidos. 

Captive Miranda, Lord knows I have not given a thought to the paperwork you sent me.

Let me tell you, Captive, that our release is not in the hands of the lawyers or the hands of America. Our release is in the hands of He who created us.

The poem, "To My Captive Lawyer, Miranda," was written by Abdullah Saleh Al-Ajmi while he was a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

...Al-Ajmi, a 29-year-old Kuwaiti, blew himself up in one of several coordinated suicide attacks on Iraqi security forces in Mosul this year. Originally reported to have participated in an April attack that killed six Iraqi policemen, a recent martyrdom video published on a password-protected al Qaeda Web site indicates that Al-Ajmi carried out the March 23 attack on an Iraqi army compound in Mosul. In that attack, an armored truck loaded with an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 pounds of explosives rammed through a fortified gate, overturned vehicles in its path and exploded in the center of the compound. The huge blast ripped the façade off three apartment buildings being used as barracks, killing 13 soldiers from the 2nd Iraqi Army division and seriously wounding 42 others.

..."Poems from Guantanamo" was taught this spring in an undergraduate course called "Writers in Exile" at City University of New York in Queens, a short distance from Ground Zero. The book's introduction states that the detainee poets "follow in the footsteps of prisoners who wrote in the Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, and, closer to home, Japanese-American internment camps." One of the students, posting on the class blog, wrote of the detainees' plight, "Wow, I had no idea. For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be seen as an American."

El segundo nos explica en detalle los entretelones del "Guantanamo Bay Bar Association" y como los detenidos en Guatánamo reciben asistencia legal del mejor nivel, algo que ni podría soñar Joe Sixpack.

Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, the 11th largest firm in the Am Law Global 100, grossed $911 million last year, The American Lawyer estimates. "We now have 1,300 lawyers practising in seven U.S. cities and six European cities," its website notes. Its clients include Bell South, Caterpillar, Dow Chemical, Whirlpool, and UAL Corp., the parent company of United Airlines, two of whose airliners al Qaeda agents smashed, respectively, into 2 World Trade Center and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 2001. This left United's 94 passengers and 16 crewmembers dead.

"'Social Justice' is our own construct," the firm explains. "We consider this to be our 'cutting edge' work...Examples of this work would be the amicus briefs we filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in the so-called Guantanamo Bay cases." Mayer leads John Does 1-570 v. George W. Bush, essentially, a class-action lawsuit involving every enemy combatant at Gitmo not already suing the president for release during wartime.

Esto me cansé de ver en Estados Unidos: la virtud de la generosidad llevada a un extremo.  

A que estas cosas no salen en los diarios argentinos?