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Guantanamo Hunger Strike Returns

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 12:34:55 PM EST
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Image from BBC news.

The hunger strike at Guantanamo has resumed.

Force-feeding is painful.

The military's rationale for force-feeding?

"Because our policy is to preserve life."

Then why won't it take the death penalty off the table?

Another blast from the past: A special report by the Guardian on the mistreatment of detainees.

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    Guantanamo Hunger Strike Returns | 15 comments (15 topical)

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    Disturbingly great graphic.... (5.00 / 2) (#1)
    by kdog on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 12:39:04 PM EST
    makes my stomach turn....and our stomachs should be turning with what goes on in our names.

    I'll Say (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by squeaky on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 12:56:43 PM EST
    Couldn't have put it better myself.

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    Repugnant treatment (5.00 / 1) (#15)
    by Edie on Wed Apr 11, 2007 at 12:27:57 PM EST
    There's not been a lot of analysis of the hunger strike in the US press--because it is so repugnant and politically damning.  The World Socialist Web Site makes this point about Guantanamo:

    The prison's name has become synonymous with torture, humiliation, religious persecution, sexual abuse, and the abrogation of the most basic democratic rights associated with the so-called "war on terror."


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    They don't show (none / 0) (#3)
    by Che's Lounge on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 02:08:32 PM EST
    the guy kneeling on his chest. It's no easy task shoving an NG tube down the gullet of an uncooperative "patient". To the glee of Jim and others, I will point out that ramming the tube through a sinus and into the brain is a known complication of this type of US medical care (AKA torture). But it does quiet the patient down significantly.

    I remember getting the tube.... (none / 0) (#4)
    by kdog on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 02:12:02 PM EST
    through the nose when I got my stomach pumped....a more unpleasant feeling I cannot recall.  

    It felt like torture...and I was cooperating.

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    The (none / 0) (#5)
    by Wile ECoyote on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 02:45:42 PM EST
    BBC story is from 26 Oct 05 15:06 16:06 UK.  

    So!? (5.00 / 1) (#7)
    by Sailor on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 03:38:14 PM EST
    The BBC image, (not story), is only used to illustrate the torture technique, the accompanying text is current.

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    Just (none / 0) (#9)
    by Wile ECoyote on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 03:39:53 PM EST
    pointing out the date.  I make no other assertions.  

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    Wile (none / 0) (#6)
    by Che's Lounge on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 03:25:12 PM EST
    What's your point?

    Just (none / 0) (#8)
    by Wile ECoyote on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 03:39:10 PM EST
    pointing out the date.  I make no other assertions.

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    Had this government (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by glanton on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 03:43:03 PM EST
    In 2005 officially accepted responsibility for what was going on and made every effort to establish greater transparencey to prove its commitment to not doing it again, then...

    Your pointing out the date would be a lot more significant, at least for me.  

    But instead, from then and continuing to this day, what we have gotten is the "Bad apples" argument.  Constant denials, in the face of landslide evidentiary argument to the contrary, that the U.S. government sanctions torture.

    Let us officially trash the "bad apples" defesne and stop what we are doing.  Then, and only then, can we call these pictures outdated.  Only then can we even begin to hope that such things, and then some, continue to happen in our name.

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    Outdated? (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by kdog on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 04:57:41 PM EST
    Wouldn't that be the day, eh glanton?  I see things getting worse.

    Orwell said a jackboot to the face would be the lasting picture of the 20th century...maybe a feeding tube forced through the nose of a chained man will be the lasting picture of the 21st.  We are well on our way...

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    yes (5.00 / 1) (#12)
    by glanton on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 10:14:04 PM EST
    I see them continuing to get worse, too.  The Orwell comparison, sadly, is directly on point.  But then, Orwell also posited a neverending war that the government uses to keep wider control over domestic matters.  He wasn't whistling dixie there, either.

    And BTW, of course I meant in the above post that

    Only then can we even begin to hope that such things, and then some, not continue to happen in our name.


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    LOL (none / 0) (#13)
    by Wile ECoyote on Tue Apr 10, 2007 at 01:01:24 PM EST
    I am just pointing out the date.  I make no other assertions.  I leave that to ya'll.

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    Just pointing out the date (none / 0) (#14)
    by glanton on Tue Apr 10, 2007 at 01:08:38 PM EST
    You may indeed be just pointing out the date, but I don't really see the reason for you to LOL over people speaking about it.  

    It is much less an interpretation of your motives, whatevere they may or may not be, than an interpretation of the thing you bring to light.

    Thanks for bringing it to light, because it is significant.

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