The First Amendment Speaks Clearly that the Detainees have this Right

  It appears certain, to me, we are depriving the detainees of a Constitutional right. In the First Amendment, it says Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to petition government for a redress of their grievances. Those in the detention camps are suffering grievances. The First Amendment doesn't say that it is only citizens who should be allowed to petition government; It says, "the people." Now, this is the First Amendment, which is about free speech. So, it becomes the detainees right to speak to the press, in order that their grievances can be appealed to the federal government.
  Even without the expressness of the First Amendment, free speech is an inherent right of humanity -- an inalienable right. That our government does not allow the media free access to the detainees not only violates the express language of the First Amendment, but it violates the dignity and inherent free speech right of all humanity.
   Oppressing the detainees in the way we are -- stacking them so tight they cannot all even lay down and sleep at night and leaving them without adequate facilities to even shower much, so that there is a stench in the camps -- is clearly a mistreatment of these people. This in America? Then, to add to that, we deprive them of their First Amendment right to cry out against how they are being mistreated. We must ask how we have let our nation sink to this, and under whose watch it occurred.