Reviews for Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay

The average rating for Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-01-12 00:00:00 Brandie Spoon What do we know about Gitmo and the prisoners that are held there? Well, if you follow the news you will know that this is one of the prisons used to house the very dangerous element of terror prisoners found in foreign countries. No one truly knows many of the facts because the government has kept it classified. Still, there are plenty of folks that would have you believe that the camp is housing hundreds of INNOCENT MEN being deprived rights. I have found that it is simply impossible to have a logical discussion about such non-sense. People like Clive Smith make it even harder, writing a frightfully anti-American book that makes claims that cannot even be verified, yet runs counter to common sense. When I say anti-American, I do not mean the general subject. Vibrant society and Republican ideals rests on debate and dissent. That is a non-starter. Yet, this book is filled with derogatory claims about Americans and peppered with the worse generalizations about our society that one can write. Mr. Smith wants to hide behind dissent because he lacks the moral courage and decency to honestly discuss his revulsion with this country. Throughout the book we learn that American's are prone to insanity if Old Glory is defaced, that GOP voters are some of the dumbest and most inhumane people on the planet and that is before we learn about the types of folks in the Military. All in all, this book is only convincing and informative if one shares the world view of the author, someone that has worked long and hard in capital cases throughout the south. One wonders if the constant toiling with society's worse has not damaged the author's moral compass. This is the second "dissent" book I have read on the war and again like The Dark Side, this book is lacking objectivity and fairness, not that this one claims any such feelings. The author is a lawyer with 40 to 50 clients in Gitmo, further impacting his account.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-06-09 00:00:00 Steven Hooks Poorly edited and written. Confusing timelines and details. Some elements chosen were petty, insignificant and unconvincing. No evidence. One good point: Do we punish these more than the Nazis at Nuremberg? Juveniles should not have been there, at all, ever. Horrible torture in Morocco, from prisoners' testimonies--why all these secret prisons?