Guter, Donald - short clip - WillingtoTradeValuesforSafety

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-	It just bothers me that	0:00
	people do take positions	0:04
	and once they do, maybe it's true of both sides.	0:07
	They just don't want to be bothered by facts anymore.	0:09
	And so the people who are	0:12
	for whatever reason,	0:16
	the politicians are politically motivated to	0:18
	keep these things in commissions and act	0:20
	like that's just the only way we're going to	0:22
	be able to keep America safe.	0:24
	And it's just not true.	0:26
	Some people are out saying, you know, where are we	0:28
	in the war on terror?	0:32
	We are going to lose.	0:33
	We are not losing,	0:34
	we're not going to lose anything.	0:35
	Or, you know, I, I guess I'm bothered	0:36
	by the lack of confidence that people have in	0:37
	in our ability to, you know, to, to fight this battle	0:41
	to prevail the lack of confidence	0:45
	in the established court system and, and our prison system.	0:48
	I mean, it just bothers me that	0:53
	that people don't have any more confidence than that.	0:55
	And then they can be so easily scared and that	0:57
	and it made a sound probably	1:02
	insensitive	1:06
	but that we are so afraid	1:06
	for our own physical safety that we're willing to just throw	1:09
	out values, throw out system	1:13
	as long as we're safe, we're not get hurt.	1:15
	We're okay.	1:18
	Well, no, that's changing.	1:19
	That's changing everything.	1:20
	The American people act like sometimes we're the	1:22
	only civilian civilization's ever been subject to terrorism.	1:24
	Terrorism started on nine eleven.	1:28
	You know, they, they kind of forget	1:30
	about the Marine barracks or the coal, or they forget	1:32
	about the terrorism between what the IRA	1:34
	and the terrorism	1:39
	that the, with the Israelis and the Palestinians.	1:40
	I mean, there's been terrorism since you can think	1:43
	that the word may have been invented	1:45
	and somehow it's all about us.	1:47
	And it's all about our fear	1:49
	and how we have to lose all these values and	1:50
	and cherished institutions and not respect them.	1:54
	That that bothers me.	1:58
	And I hope at some point that we can get past that.	1:59

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Title:

Guter, Donald - short clip - WillingtoTradeValuesforSafety

Date:

May 16, 2012

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Guter, Donald

Role:

Military

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Principal Legal Advisor, Sec. of the Navy
Donald Guter, male, age 63, was a JAG Admiral and served as special counsel to the Chief of Naval Operations. He became the 37th Judge Advocate General of the Navy from 2000-2002.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

Subject:

United States

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oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

1:30:22

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