Posted on 04/07/2021 3:35:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
"I feel quite strongly that Guantánamo doesn’t have a place in our world"
Benedict Cumberbatch says he wants Guantánamo Bay closed after working on ‘The Mauritanian’ "I feel quite strongly that Guantánamo doesn’t have a place in our world"
Benedict Cumberbatch has said he wants Guantánamo Bay closed following his work on recent film The Mauritanian.
The film, which is being produced by SunnyMarch – an independent film and television company that Cumberbatch jointly owns – explores the experiences of Mohamedou Ould Slahi who was incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay for 14 years without charge.
After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the offshore prison camp in Cuba was set up to hold suspects relating to terror charges. However, many suspects remained there against their will and without trial for years, Many detainees also alleged they were tortured frequently.
After reading Slahi’s memoir Guantánamo Diary, Cumberbatch told The Independent he was “hooked on [Slahi’s] voice” and decided to make a film about his experiences. The film stars Cumberbatch alongside Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster.
Foster plays Nancy Hollander, a lawyer who spent years trying to get Slahi freed from Guantánamo, in the film. Foster has already won a Golden Globe for her performance and the film is also up for five BAFTAs next week.
Cumberbatch said: “I feel quite strongly that Guantánamo doesn’t have a place in our world.” When asked if he hopes US President Joe Biden will close Guantánamo, Cumberbatch added: “Hoping? I’m going to plead with the guy.
“It is a huge spend,” he went on. “It’s the most expensive prison on earth. And what are the results? Where are the prosecutions? That’s just being really brutally economic about it, it just doesn’t work. And then you have the human rights issue.
“It’s an atrocious own goal, I think for the free world to be incarcerating people through extraordinary rendition, torturing them and extracting confessions they think are then usable in prosecution…it is a really dangerous, unnecessary and ineffectual place, I think, and enough people have suffered there.”
In a four-star review of the film, NME wrote: “Considering the awful humanitarian crimes that went on behind closed doors in Guantanamo Bay, there’s definitely a much more powerful film to be made out of Salahi’s story than the one we get in The Mauritanian.
“Instead giving us a political suspenser with a slightly softened bite, Macdonald’s solid, occasionally generic exposé still lands with weight thanks to Rahim – a name that really should have been on that Oscar list.”
The actor has a right to an opinion, his opinion. If one of his parents or a brother or sister had died in a terrorist attack he might have thought better than to put his opinion out for all to see. He is a weird guy anyway.
If I was KING, I would expand Gitmo to house more bad guys from the Senate and House of Reprobates.
Cumberbatch should weigh in on conditions in the rest of Cuba. He might be shown the prisons that house the political prisoners before they face the firing squad.
Cumberbatch said: “I feel quite strongly that Guantánamo doesn’t have a place in our world.” When asked if he hopes US President Joe Biden will close Guantánamo, Cumberbatch added: “Hoping? I’m going to plead with the guy.”
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Jeez, like anybody wants advice from someone who makes a living pretending to be someone he isn’t and whose lack of imagination led him to adopt a Dickensian-like name as his stage name. Maybe I’m culturally deprived but I never heard of him before.
Thank God an actor has finally given us direction on what to do! /sarcasm
Maybe if some “Southeast Asians” crashed airliners into Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and the Downing Street Gonvernmental offices simultaneously he might feel differently. But probably not. He’d just wring his hands about how Britain drove them to to do it.
If he wants to close Guantanamo Bay, let him sign the paperwork where the United States will send the current and future prisoners to his house. If even one of his wards plots to commit a terrorist act, HE and ALL of them go back to Guantanamo Bay.
Ah, another foreigner telling the US what to do. How quaint.
Stupid Brit. The moslems are lucky we didn’t have a President with enough backbone to nuke Mecca.
And what does he say about Chinese concentration camps? What does he say about North Korean camps? What does he say about Iranian, Saudi, ISIS, and Pakistani prisons.
Nothing sounds more ignorant than an actor who acts in a film thinking they are an expert now. That would be like Tom Cruise in front of Congress testifying about fighter jets.
Jessica Lang testified in front of Congress about farm policy in the 80s because she played a farmers wife in a movie.
Idiotic.
HOW many of the released Gitmo detainees went back to the battlefield to carry out more terrorist attacks after they were released?
How many of them died committing terrorist attacks?
Did he visit any of the prisons that Castro used for those with AIDS?
Candidate Obama promised he would close it.
He didn’t. And he had 8 years to do so.
Didn’t this guy claim he was Patient Zero for Covid ?
maybe he should quarantined there for a while just in case ?
HUSH, Disney-Marvel Movies are worth money in China. LET THE WOOKIE WIN.
I will then ask Tom Hanks about how to best deal with AIDS.
Next up is my interview with Matt Damon on calculating definite integrals and eigenvalues.
I will close with Martin Sheen's insights on wining the New Hampshire primaries.
Cumberbatch jumped into a mugging a few years back and fought off 4 muggers who were attacking a delivery guy. How many freepers have done such? Give the guy some slack.
He’s arguably right about shutting down Guantanamo.
>>People get one side of a story from people proven to be militants and they take it as gospel.
The son of the Weather Underground terrorists thinks his parents got a raw deal and became a Socialist Dumbarse (DA) in San Fransicko.
I know it’s waaay too late, but I would have liked to have seen some of the banksters end up there.
And he can stfu
They’re not “prisoners of war” - they are captives and have the same status as pirates. They should have been dealt with immediately as pirates once were but for the sake of intelligence gathering, we have let them keep breathing. When their usefulness is at an end, they should be hanged with a dead pig around their neck, buried face down in pig s*** with the soles of their feet pointed towards Mecca. And let the rest of their cell mates watch as it’s done. After that, I’ll bet their jailers wouldn’t need such measures as water-boarding to get the information they need...
“Too Big to Fail” always sounded like the title of some wretched porno.
One thing is sure, we little people sure got screwed.
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