It is so good to be free again, to taste new food and smell ocean air. I wake up with a heavy heart and then realize that I am free to go anywhere, do anything I please. The sense of freedom overwhelms me. It is so good be alive.
If it were only me. But there are others behind bars, people held without charges by an unaccountable regime. These people have been held for years on trumped-up charges, some not having seen their homeland or families for almost ten years.
I am referring, of course, to the prison at Guantanamo, and the secret prisons that the United States runs in Iraq, Afghanistan, and CIA torture prisons in undisclosed locations. I am referring to the hundreds, if not thousands of Palestinians who have disappeared into the Israeli prison system, and for whom Israel refuses to offer details.
Oh yeah, also, my fiance’ Shane Bauer, and our friend, Josh Fattal. Them too. Almost forgot.
OK, yeah, I made it up. Just wanted to point out the American state of mind that can see small injustice and be blind to monstrous ones.
Piece of Mindful 
Thus, the nature of denial.
We deny that which confounds our paradigms.
Many would rather their brain explode then contradict a lie given to them by an (untested) authority.
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I’ve often wondered if it was worth the financial gain to suffer inside a tyranny so to write a book or make a movie of it afterward.
Rough calculations: I’d earn $250,000 a year. Would you do that for =say 5 years= for your family?
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Just make up a story and go on Ophra. It’s America, fer chrissakes.
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Mark,
Yeah, that seems to work.
Ophra seems to be a slow learner in this matter.
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I was under the impression we could do whatever we like on the world stage, because… you know… we’re promoting freedom.
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Yes, and if the word “freedom” actually had any meaning, I’d know what exactly we are promoting.
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