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Monday, September 18, 2006

Guantanomo Bay?

I was watching the Guantanamo torture reenactment of volunteers, who portray the prisoners of war on the Sundance channel, demonstrating the torture instituted by the United States. I felt angry to think that the United Nation would allow this kind of torture. A guidebook that really makes people psychologically think what might happen to someone that is from the Muslim religion.

Guards would repeat humiliating acts to the so called terrorist, even if he was innocent or guilty. 'One strategy was to humiliate the detainee by touching him in such a manner, or by being touched by a women, in contravention of Muslim religious beliefs'(nonny). The guards would also take them out of there jail and strip their clothing to once again humiliate the detainee in front of his Muslim people.

Some detainees would be blinded, or had a bag over there heads, and put in a small jail alone with no contact for a total of 18 months.
Some would even start to demonstrate mental behavior acts after certain amount of hours when forced to listen to screaming voices and other annoying noises;guards would shave their hair; give them ice cold water to wash; give them dry foods and leaving them weak from hunger.

An experiment that would have detainees (volunteers)
call it quits after 48 hours.

Now tell me if this is a way to get information out of the prisoners or the so called terrorist? Does this change your mind about torture and if this should be kept in Guantanamo Bay as a guideline to treat humans like you and me, even if they guilty or innocent.

I would recommend all of you to watch this re-actment of Guantanamo Bay "Guidebook of Torture" on the Sundance Channel. It will help those who are for torture really think about what is torture to one person or maybe see that just because we have different beliefs all should be treated with the same civil rights no matter if they are or not citizens of the United States.

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