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Last week, the attorney who represented several Guantanamo detainees, Marc Falkoff, was scheduled to speak at McHenry County College. The talk was planned to center around the circumstances of many detainees’ arrests, their innocence/guilt, their treatment and a collection of poetry written during their often extended stays (Poems from Guantanamo – The Detainees Speak). That last part sounds a bit too hands-held-round-a-warm-fire-Kumbaya for me, but he’s entitled to freedom of the press just as much as the next guy. Continue reading →