We at EASPF reject and oppose the Guantanamo military tribunal's sham trials for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, Guantanamo is not legitimately the property of the United States and therefore the United States armed forces have no business detaining anybody there, putting anybody on trial there, or doing anything else there. Guantanamo is not and never has been a part of the national homeland of European-Americans or of any other nationalities currently residing within the USA. Guantanamo is the property of the Cuban people, and only Cuba has any rights to it. The 1934 treaty leasing Guantanamo Bay to the USA was a precondition of Cuba's independence and therefore was obtained under duress and is invalid. Further, since the 1959 revolution, the Cuban government has renounced the treated and refused to accept lease payments from the USA.
Second, the vast majority of those detained at Guantanamo were kidnapped from countries over which the USA has no jurisdiction and are not alleged to have committed any offenses within the jurisdiction of the USA. It is sheer imperialist arrogance that any court would uphold that the laws of the USA apply in Afghanistan, Pakistan, or other countries outside the USA. We at EASPF categorically reject the notion that the courts of the USA, military or civilian, have jurisdiction over the entire world. In those cases in which crimes are alleged to have occurred within the USA, those detained there are being denied their rights under the United States Constitution to be tried in the USA in the federal court system. This strongly indicates that the Bush administration fears it could not win convictions in anything like fair trials and that many of the defendants are innocent. Simply put, the military tribunals have no jurisdiction over the detainees.
Third, even where the defendants are "guilty" of the "crimes" attributed to them, these acts are by any objective and anti-imperialist standard praiseworthy acts rather than crimes, or at least morally justified acts. To crash two airplanes into the center of imperialist finance capital was a praiseworthy act. To crash one airplane into the center of imperialist military aggression was a praiseworthy act. To behead lying, war-mongering Jew journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan was a praiseworthy act. For Afghans, and others living as guests of the people of Afghanistan, to open fire on invading American soldiers was completely justified.
While EASPF is not affiliated with al-Qaida, and while we have differences on many issues, we stand in complete solidarity with the Guantanamo detainees, and we call for their immediate release. We applaud the courage of Khaled Sheik Muhammed and others who refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the tribunals, refuse to accept the tribunal's "lawyers," and refuse to beg for mercy and cower in the face of the enemy. In ZOG we share a common enemy. We pledge to fight as hard as al-Qaida against it.

Let us smash the New York-Jerusalem axis from both ends!

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