Meet the New Rosenbergs:

...At Guantanamo

On this day in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in Sing Sing, NY.

"We are the first victims of American fascism".

(From Wikipedia)

Their case has been at the center of the controversy over communism in the United States ever since, with supporters steadfastly maintaining that their conviction was an egregious example of persecution typical of the "hysteria" of those times and likening it to the witch hunts that marred Salem and medieval Europe.

There are, of course, differences in the Rosenberg case and the detainees at Guantanamo: first, they were allowed legal counsel and, second, they were given a trial. And they had supporters:

Jean-Paul Sartre called the case "a legal lynching which smears with blood a whole nation. By killing the Rosenbergs, you have quite simply tried to halt the progress of science by human sacrifice. Magic, witch-hunts, auto-da-fés, sacrifices—we are here getting to the point: your country is sick with fear... you are afraid of the shadow of your own bomb." Among other opposers to the execution: Dashiell Hammett, Jean Cocteau, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Einstien, Pope Pius XII, the all-Black International Longshoremen’s Association Local 968, Fritz Lang and Bertolt Brecht.

Note: of the many voices against the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo, there don't seem to be many religious ones. There was a play entitled "Jesus, The Guantanamo Years," by Abie Philbin Bowman, but it certainly didn't have a Christofascist bent. Or even a Progressive Christian leaning.

So, no one with a clerical collar is laying down his life for Gitmos. Figures.