Honor Bound to Defend Freedom

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"Contractors at Guatanamo Bay recently painted ‘Honor Bound.’ The full motto “Honor Bound to Defend Freedom” was established during the command of Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller who served here from late 2002 to early 2004) (Photo by Army Sgt. 1st Class Carlos Sanchez)"

Honor Bound to Defend Freedom is the motto of the Joint Task Force Guantánamo charged with running the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.^[1] The invocation of "Freedom" as the rationale for internment has been noted to bear an eerie reminiscence to the Arbeit macht frei ("Work brings freedom") motto of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and to George Orwell's parody of a political slogan, Freedom is Slavery.^{[citation needed]}