Posted on 07/18/2008 1:40:35 PM PDT by DemonDeac
"David Remes, a Covington & Burling partner, lowered his pants on Monday at a conference in Yemen to demonstrate the treatment of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Photo: "
"“I’d been to Guantanamo in mid-June,” explained Remes, “and there’s a certain amount of normalcy that has settled over the normal miserable conditions of confinement, which amount to solitary confinement without sleep and without sunlight and without anyone to talk to. So at the news conference, I said that, in addition to this torment, which has become so typical that we don’t even talk about it anymore, now the torment also consists of constant body searches in which the men are required to pull their shirts up to their chest, drop their pants, and then the corn-fed U.S. military sticks their thumbs under the prisoner’s underwear band and circles the prisoner’s torsos.” Remes said these searches can take place several times in the course of a day.
Remes continued: “At the press conference in Yemen — this is a society where the rule of morality is so strict — I wanted to drive home the degree of humiliation that these searches cause by illustrating a typical body search. The physical abuse they can stand. The verbal abuse they can stand. But when the military punishes Muslim men by shaving off their beard, or by forcing them to disrobe — for a Muslim man that is a thousand times more cutting than a Westerner can imagine. And that’s what I was trying to dramatize. The reaction to what I did makes me very sad. I wish people paid as much attention to the suffering and torment in Guantanamo as they paid to the way I sought to dramatize it.”
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aw, he showed his weewee, he must really be serious. I always think these people that show their body parts to “prove” some point really just want to bare their body parts in public.
To quote Shania Twain “it don’t impress me much” Substitute “at all” for “much”
Let’s judge this accordingly: Dropping your pants and/or getting a shave vs having your head cut off while you’re alive. Hmmmm.
Maybe these sickos should stay at home instead of trying to kill Americans.
“Let’s judge this accordingly: Dropping your pants and/or getting a shave vs having your head cut off while you’re alive. Hmmmm.”
It all depends on where you ask the question. Ask an American audience and the answer is obvious. Ask an audience of Yemini Muslims like he did and the answer probably is that making someone drop his pants is more heinous and more worthy of outrage.
“Whack his pee pee”. Cheech and Chong thanks you.
There’s a very very very good security reason for this. It isn’t beyond the pale considering the options.
So we don’t cut off their beards and check them for weapons...more people get shanked and then they complain we’re running a Gulag.
Arrest him for public indecency.
I fail to see why I should feel sorry for a terrorist wartime prisoner because of a little humiliation. Humiliation isn’t permanent, it isn’t scarring, it isn’t debilitating — it isn’t torture, it is an irritant.
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You mean someone should "belittlehead" him?
The shaving of the beards and searches of the prisoner’s undies is done to protect the lives of the guards at Gitmo.
“The prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay during the war on terror have attacked their military guards hundreds of times, turning broken toilet parts, utensils, radios and even a bloody lizard tail into makeshift weapons, Pentagon reports say.”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8J75DVO1&show_article=1
Why do you think we do it nimrod. Tens of thousands of would-be jihadies have declined to participate because they are terrified that their small package might be exposed. I hope they keep these stories coming.
Isn't he in a Muslim country, he may be lucky to leave with his head still attached.
Remes continued: “At the press conference in Yemen — this is a society where the rule of morality is so strict — I wanted to drive home the degree of humiliation that these searches cause by illustrating a typical body search. The physical abuse they can stand. The verbal abuse they can stand. But when the military punishes Muslim men by shaving off their beard, or by forcing them to disrobe — for a Muslim man that is a thousand times more cutting than a Westerner can imagine. And that’s what I was trying to dramatize. The reaction to what I did makes me very sad. I wish people paid as much attention to the suffering and torment in Guantanamo as they paid to the way I sought to dramatize it.”
As opposed to having to choose between buring to death or having to jump out a 80 story window to the street below?
Suck it up koran animal
Diversity can be such a bitch sometimes.
I wonder if this idiot realizes that it will take Covington at least a decade to live this down.
Probably a lot longer.
I guess he made a real dick of himself.
>> Isn’t he in a Muslim country, he may be lucky to leave with his head still attached.
My understanding is that Muslim decency laws apply only to women. If he were a woman, they’d stone him to death ... since he’s male, they’ll be more understanding. And feminists whine about a “patriarchy” in America.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080717/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_egypt_harassment
Interesting study showing that more than 2/3 of Egyptian men ADMIT to harassing women who aren’t covered from head-to-toe.
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