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Guantanamo Reality Show

It was only a matter of time - get ready for a reality show about Guantanamo where the participants play detainees.

Volunteers on a reality TV show have been subjected to sexual humiliation and physical cruelty in a copy of the Guantanamo Bay military camp. The seven men, including three Muslims, endured painful stress positions, sleep deprivation and extreme temperatures.

Scenes for the programme, The Guantanamo Guidebook, were filmed in a warehouse in East London which had been fitted with cages, interrogation rooms and surveillance equipment. Presented by Jon Snow, it examined how they stood up to 'torture-lite' after being left in the hands of a team of former U.S. military interrogators for 48 hours.

At the beginning, some of the particpants supported the Bush administrations treatment of detainees. That changed, after they were subjected to similar treatment.:

....after being subjected to religious and sexual humiliation and forced nudity, two of them vomited, another soiled himself and one dropped out after seven hours due to the onset of hypothermia.

[link via What Really Happened.]

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    Re: Guantanamo Reality Show (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 06:46:27 AM EST
    Please note that this is in England so unless you have a very unusual dish you'll have to make do without. -

    Re: Guantanamo Reality Show (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 06:56:44 AM EST
    I wonder, if they compared the results to the Stanford Prison Experiment catastrophe, would anything be learned? I cannot stand reality shows to begin with, and the thought of a moronic producer even suggesting that as a show topic is disgusting and lays bare the complete lack of humanity/civility by a certain, unnamed group of people. The underlying premise, that Guantanimo is not all that bad, just tops it off.

    Re: Guantanamo Reality Show (none / 0) (#3)
    by kdog on Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 08:52:01 AM EST
    Please tell me this is a hoax.

    Re: Guantanamo Reality Show (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 09:55:40 AM EST
    The political rats in our world not just washington need people to get uses to rape, murder, and torment/pain/torture, it will be a hit and some people will love the show and some will make alot of money. and some will want to go and have fun at Guantanamo, and some day many will go and have a little fun in the torture rooms. "Nothing to see here move along" ss guard 1943.

    Re: Guantanamo Reality Show (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 01:39:01 PM EST
    Tru dat. But I'd pay double Pay-per-View prices to see PPJ as a contestant. How do you sign people up?

    Re: Guantanamo Reality Show (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Fri Feb 11, 2005 at 02:31:11 PM EST
    He'd do it if he got to 'be the guard'.