For the first time on Tuesday I engaged in civil disobedience, standing outside the Justice Department with a group of 60 others who were willing to risk arrest.   We wore orange jumpsuits and black hoods.  We were doing our best to make visible the 173 detainees still at Guantanamo, to bring the reality of their existence into the streets of Washington on the ninth anniversary of  GITMO's opening.   Over half have been judged by our government as ready for release--as innocent.  As not, after all, terrorists.  Yet they remain there still, wrongly imprisoned, as they have been for years.   We stood in the lightly falling snow, a phalanx of police officers behind us.  Poet Luke Nephew recited a poem.  His words rang off the stones of the building.  "We are not here to make angels out of prisoners.  We don't know them.  But we know that they are still men.  And so we defend those who disappear under hoods and into jumpsuits, bringing back into the light every CIA black site because right now there is a man under that hood . . . There is a man under that hood who is being treated as less than human. . . .To the people of my country, please, do not pretend that we are seeking freedom or justice or any common good until we are ready to recognize the human rights of every single man under that hood."  Organized by Witness Against Torture, the vigils will continue until January 22.  Over a hundred people around the country are fasting in solidarity with the detainees.  All this as President Obama is preparing an executive order authorizing indefinite detention.