"Freedom-loving" US, kills freedom

It was in the news that some of the families of the European Guantanamo Bay detainees, are in Washington appealing for their loved ones who are in the US custody. I was listening to it on the radio on my way back form work. Here is shortened version of what one of the detainees fathers had to say:

"Mr President, I am not here to ask you any favor, I am here to ask you to either release my son, or charge him if he has committed any crime. I am not here to beg you for his life. I am here to ask you not to abuse his human rights and charge him, and punish him for his crime, or let him go. This is not much to ask...."

Also, one of the former hostages (I am not sure British or American), who had spent time in the hands of Islamic fundamentalist groups and was there as solidarity with the families of the detainees, said:"The conditions of these detainees remind me of what I have been through. I was in the hands of terrorists, but these detainees are in the hands the free world, but the injustice and uncertainty that they are facing is similar to what I faced in the hands of the terrorists".

It should be noted that after about 2.5 years, only two of the over 600 detainees have been charged and the rest are neither charged nor freed by the "democracy and freedom-loving" US.