Breaking forcefully with Bush anti-terror policies, President Barack Obama ordered major changes Thursday that he said would halt the torture of suspects, close down the Guantanamo detention center, ban secret CIA prisons overseas and fight terrorism "in a manner that is consistent with our values and our ideals."

Thank you.

For years, Americans have heard the horror stories of the less than American standards being upheld at Guantanamo Bay. If you need a reference, just Google "Guantanamo Bay Torture". You get about 125,00 results.

The detention facility is a valuable tool in the fight against terrorism because it provides useful intelligence information and it keeps our enemies off the battlefield," said Glen Gardner.

Isn't that lovely?

Detention facility. Kind of makes you think of being held after school, or that classic movie Boys Town with Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney.

Being held without trial is wrong.

They did it in California in the 1940s to Japanese Americans.

They did it from the 1920s to the 1950s in Russia to anyone who disagreed with the Soviet Government.

They did it in German controlled Europe in the 30s and 40s with Jewish people and homosexuals (and pretty much anyone the Reich did not like).

Whether it is a "War Relocation Camp", "Gulag", or "Concentration/Death Camp", they all mean the same thing: Human Rights Violation. These people are, and have been, deprived of the rights that the American Declaration of Independence was based on.

Not only should they shut down the camp, they should burn it down so it can not ever be used again.