Access Denied

We can't just let anyone and his brother in.

AP: U.S. Activists Rebuffed at Guantanamo---

HAVANA - U.S. activists camping at a Cuban military checkpoint outside the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay were rebuffed Tuesday in their attempt to gain access to terror suspects held at the facility.

Members of the Christian-oriented Witness Against Torture began a hunger strike at the checkpoint on Monday after a five-day march from the eastern Cuban city of Santiago.

They said they have not received a reply to their formal request to gain access to the base. On Tuesday one of the activists, Gary Ashbeck, called the base on a cell phone, only to have communication cut off after a brief exchange with an operator.

Stacey Byington, a civilian spokeswoman for U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, told The Associated Press in an e-mail that access is limited to those with official or authorized business.

These "activists" have about as much right as Castro to enter Gitmo and examine the prisoners.

The detention center has become a symbol of the dispute over detainee abuse by the U.S. military. Thirty-two prisoners are on hunger strike to protest what they say is cruel and inhumane treatment.

Twenty-five of those prisoners are being fed through tubes.

Feeding tubes? That's life support, according to liberals and Michael Schiavo.

And what are the prisoners protesting? The best living they have ever had? They didn't get the quality of food and 3 meals a day and clean bedding and clothing while living in caves. When their kind takes prisoners, the prisoners end up with their heads cut off.

U.S. officials insist the hundreds of prisoners held at Guantanamo are treated humanely at the remote base on Cuba's eastern tip. The government says they are enemy combatants, not prisoners of war, and are not entitled to the same rights afforded under the Geneva Conventions.

The activists said they were not concerned about sanctions they might face at home for traveling to Cuba, which is under a decades-old U.S. trade and travel embargo.

"It's my job to be with the poor and the oppressed," said the Rev. Steve Kelly, a Jesuit priest from California. (emphasis added)

Hmmm, that's not what a Jesuit's job is supposed to be. A Priest is supposed to teach the Word of God, not the Word of Liberal Activism. A priest is supposed to be home, at his parish or school, not out joining the terrorists. But those Jesuits . . .