What they're reading at Gitmo

They would love to read a recent article: "Close Gitmo, the Entire Base" http://g2mil.com/closegitmo.htm

...the inmates have unfettered access to reading material. (snicker)

The last time I was in jail (anti-war demo... charges dropped, along with dozens of others arrested for no reason), the most popular book was "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy", because it was damn near the only book available, except a bunch of Louis L'Amour westerns, and the Bible.

If they were really that dangerous, one would figure The Anarchists Cookbook (once a lefty read, now rights controlled by a right wing publishing house [snicker again]) would be the reading of choice.

..or maybe they need more copies of Prairie Fire and the Port Huron Statement http://www.archive.org/details/sds_papers , which, even though written in the sixties are prescient documents for the here and now:

"...We regard men as infinitely precious and possessed of unfulfilled capacities for reason, freedom, and love.

In affirming these principles we are aware of countering perhaps the dominant conceptions of man in the twentieth century: that he is a thing to be manipulated, and that he is inherently incapable of directing his own affairs.

We oppose the depersonalization that reduces human beings to the status of things -- if anything, the brutalities of the twentieth century teach that means and ends are intimately related, that vague appeals to "posterity" cannot justify the mutilations of the present.

We oppose, too, the doctrine of human incompetence because it rests essentially on the modern fact that men have been "competently" manipulated into incompetence -- we see little reason why men cannot meet with increasing skill the complexities and responsibilities of their situation, if society is organized not for minority, but for majority, participation in decision-making.

Men have unrealized potential for self-cultivation, self-direction, selfunderstanding, and creativity. It is this potential that we regard as crucial and to which we appeal, not to the human potentiality for violence, unreason, and submission to authority."

Do you think I can donate a copy to the Guantanamo concentration camp library Tom?

If not, why not?

Are there more than 3 books available?