This is one reason nonviolent change is slow. A population does not change its mind easily. It is a gradual process of trying on this new identity — of getting comfortable enough with it to face the external and internal blowback that comes from going AWOL psychologically, politically or culturally.
- Edward Snowden demonstrates the power of breaking ranks, WagingNonViolence.org, June 13, 2013.
3. U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford on Wednesday was one of just three Republicans in the House of Representatives to join Democrats in support of a move to close Guantánamo Bay in Cuba and potentially allow federal officials to transfer detention center prisoners to facilities in the United States.
Sanford told McClatchy afterward that he’d voted for closing the prison because he opposes the government holding people indefinitely – in many cases, Guantánamo prisoners are held for years without being formally charged with crimes.
“Indefinite detention is not consistent with the values that America was based on,” Sanford said in an interview. “I think if you look at the military tribunals . . . there was finality to the process: ‘We find you guilty in military tribunal, we’ll take you out back and shoot you, or we’ll let you go.’ It was not, ‘We’re going to hold you for the next 40 years.’ ”
A Republican majority – with help from 21 Democrats who broke rank with their party – defeated the proposal to close Guantánamo Bay on Wednesday.
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