How Much do You Trust the Government? Prisoners in Guantanamo Bay on Hunger Strike

In this week's edition of The Week I read that several of the prisoners, aka detainees, our country is holding in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba went on a hunger strike. Some or all of those on the strike have had feeding tubes forced into their bodies to keep them alive. These people have no rights, not even the right to exercise protest or non-violent resistance. I had almost forgotten about them. I'm no sympathizer with terrorists, but I think what we're doing with these people is just wrong. I don't understand why they haven't been charged with crimes and tried, or released. They are in a legal limbo (side note -- I also read this week that the Catholic Church is planning to eliminate Limbo from their theological ontology). It seems time to ask that something be done to resolve the question of what we are doing with these men and boys in Cuba, as much for our own consciences as for the humanity of the prisoners. America is not a tyranny or a dictatorship, but it seems to be proving itself one with its actions in recent years. The reason we don't see it, many of us, is that the exercise of power and control is being focused outward, away from our citizens and onto the citizens of other countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq and now Iran.

Here is a timely editorial with some interesting facts and figures about the "detainees":
Where's the Outrage Over Guantanamo Prisoners?