By Dr Patrick A ODougherty

St John’s University class of 1968 member, Dr Patrick ODougherty, has good news for his fellow Americans. The number of prisoners in Guantanamo has decreased from 779 to 40. Let their be no torture in my name. Let the captives go home in 2020. Hooded WAT detainees wore Hoods and signs on Muslim prayer rugs at the processionals saying “I was force fed during Ramadan.” The government had me “baptized under force.”

The a Muslim call to prayer was forcefully” mocked.” Dr Patrick ODougherty is left of the speaker in the orange jump suit and hood bearing the sign close Guantanamo at the Black sight hearing in DC. 

Solidarity, Humility, Respect! Salt, Light, Witness! 

 WAT Bibliography By Dr Patrick ODougherty

Kate Millet, the Politics of Cruelty: an Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment

Wendell Berry: What Are People For? 

Poems From Guantanamo, the Detainees Speak, by Marc Falkoff

Muslim Guantanamo Pastor James Yee, author, For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire

WItness Against Torture: the Campaign to Shut Down Guantanamo

Daniel Berrigan and Michael Ratner

There is a Man Under that Hood, Justin Norman

Andy Worthington, founder, Close Guantanamo, 

Author: 

The Guantanamo Files, the Stories of the 774 detainees in America’s Illegal Prison

Psychology Connections:

Dr Patrick A ODougherty St Paulites—Artability Artists Writing As COPing Mechanisms 

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