I wrote Guantanamo after reading an article in Democracy Now: Court: Gitmo Detainees Do Not Meet Definition of "Person" and in Rolling Stone about an Arab-Canadian boy who grew up with a militant father and spent time in Pakistan. He was almost killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan and sent to Guantanamo Bay where he was tortured. He was 15 at the time. Recently George Bush vetoed a bill that would have made torture illegal. My friend Erik Hutchins and I produced a music video to this song.