Posted on 06/20/2005 2:07:03 PM PDT by StoneGiant
Durban is right
The time has come to face the ugly truth: Dick Durban is right; the things our military is doing in Guantanemo Bay to prisoners is tantamount to torture.
Here is the side of Guantanemo you won't hear from the mainstream media. Only those of us who have a friend whose neighbor's son's ex-girlfriend's brother is actually there hear the stomach-churning stories of questioning tactics that are routinely visited on the detainees at Gitmo. Read ahead if you dare, but I warn you, it's not for the weak-hearted.
My contacts inside tell me that the prisoners are forced to sit on hard wooden chairs for hours with no cushions. Think about that. That’s like sitting in a baseball stadium all afternoon… but no game is playing. There's no beer. They don't even get peanuts. Even first year law school students listening to tort lectures aren’t subjected to that more than three days a week. But in Gitmo, it can happen four, even five days a week. Yes, really.
And that’s not all. Prisoners are forced to stand for hours and hours on end in extreme temperatures as if they are waiting outside a box office for U2 tickets. But there’s no U2 ticket at the end of this torture. No. Instead they hear rap music, or worse. Christina Aguilera. Perhaps the average American (who doesn’t have a teenager) doesn’t know this, but Christina Aguilera can cause bleeding from the ears. But this is what is being done in our name every day down in Gitmo.
And the orange-glazed chicken you’ve heard so much about? I’ll let you in on a little secret: it’s dry.
”I could barely wash it down,” complained Ahmar al Killemall. “My twelve-year old bride could make a better orange-glazed chicken than that. And this salad was made with iceberg lettuce,” he adds. “What, the U.S. can’t afford romaine? Come on.”
And then there’s the sleep-deprivation torture. These detainees are kept up for hours at night with blaring noises, until they are as bleary and nauseous as a new parent with a baby in the house. This can go on for weeks. Like a new parent with a baby in the house. They sometimes grow so exhausted that they fall asleep on their feet! Like a new parent, with a baby in the house.
The list of atrocities goes on and on. The detainees’ cells are as small as a college dorm room, and in many of them… I’m sorry to say it… but there isn’t even a view of the water. Not even a view, for God’s sake! It's an island, they can't arrange a room with a view?
They don’t have cable tv, either. Do you know who Donald Trump’s new apprentice is? Well, don’t ask a prisoner at Gitmo, because they don’t know either. They don’t know who won American Idol. They've never seen Six Feet Under. They don’t even know about Tom and Katie! Do you understand the implications of that? By the time they hear about the wedding, the divorce will be final and they won’t even be able to get in on the betting pool.
How can we do this to other human beings?
I also have it on good authority that their religion is routinely, subtly insulted in various ways. The prayer mats they kneel on clash with their uniforms, for example. And the Koran is often given dirty looks by our soldiers. The beards cultivated by the faithful are sometimes mocked. One soldier was heard to refer to three detainees as “ZZ Top,” and another even said to a detainee’s face, “Yo, what up, Gandalf?” Words hurt, people! They hurt!
Is this the sort of face we should show to the world? Is this what we want done in our name? Is this what America stands for?
Source? Anonymous
Excellent! Tell anonymous to come out of hiding and take credit for a well done piece.
Hard chairs? Oh the humanity!
I lived in Illinois for 20 years and have often used that Dick phrase.
Bravisimo!!!!!!!!
Yikes, in my mind this conjured up Brokaw and Couric!
EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW........
Not sure who gets the worst of that deal.
I thought we couldn't do worse than Paul Simon, boy was I wrong.
LOL!
LOL!
"And the orange-glazed chicken you’ve heard so much about? I’ll let you in on a little secret: it’s dry."
The horrors! ;)
NO zot, it's a satire.
Read it, it's funny.
This is good stuff!
Not only that, I've heard they set the AC to a whopping 78 degrees.
Even the Spanish Inquisition used comfy chairs and soft cushions. The horror of it all.
Sweet - although I am not certain "not seeing" U2 is torture
Nope. PA has Specter and his new trainee -- Ricky Santorum, the phony who has been pretending to be a conservative. A betrayer is always worse than an outright commie.
LOL! Who wrote this??
Hey, I've got an idea. After we capture them and SQUEEZE them for all the info we can get, let's torture them then BEHEAD them on Al-Jazeera. Sound like a familiar tactic?
The orange-glaze chicken? It's dry! Bwaaaaa! Now that's torture!
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