US officials have been desperate to stifle reports of a massive hunger strike among detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and the latest tactic, having failed in their attempts to simply deny it, is to punish the strikers.
An emergency motion has been filed in a DC court by lawyers for the detainees, claiming that the military is now denying the detainees clean drinking water to punish them for refusing to eat provided meals.
The military has so far refused to respond to the motion, but insists that the claims of insufficient water are untrue. The motion warns some detainees are already experiencing kidney problems from lack of water.
Over 100 detainees are believed to be on strike. The military initially insisted it was only nine, but is now conceding to 31 “official” strikers. They argue that many of the others are secretly eating snacks when no one is looking and aren’t recognized strikers.
Even if the allegations of denying water as a form of punishment are confirmed, it isn’t clear that the US court system can force the military to do anything to stop it, since Guantanamo is mostly run extra-legally in the first place, and the Obama Administration has followed the Bush Administration in claiming that anything that happens there is outside of the courts’ jurisdiction.
If true – This is the most disgusting act of the Obama regime..
This is not simply a crime against humanity. BUT THE MOST DISGUSTING CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY EVEN WORSE THAN THE HOLOCAUST.
SHAME AMERICA – SHAME OBAMA.
Is'nt this this a form of torture?
Don't blame me, I voted for Romney!
……kidding.
"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison
without formulating any charge known to the law, and
particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers,
is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation
of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."
Winston Churchill
This is, of course, a complete fabrication. All detainees have 24/7/365 access to water. The same water provided every other location at Gitmo. Because of the rocky landscape, and unlike most places in the U.S., the water service pipes are above ground, and the pipes are black. Imagine the warm water tap in your house running for about 30 seconds and then mixing it with the cold. It is tepid at best, rarely cool. Detainees would refuse to drink it when I was there, monitoring the medical, preventive medical, and environmental aspects of the mission. The very same water feeds all of the domiciles and businesses at Gitmo. There simply is no cool or cold tap water until several hours after sundown. All detainees at Gitmo are treated with dignity and respect, even when they throw their urine and feces on the guards. The U.S> Military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is the finest such facility in the world, bar none. Said to me by a Swiss ICRC physician at Gitmo in 2002: "Nobody does [detention operations] better than the United States."
a turn key at gulag and i should believe your bs? A place of murder,torture, illegal detention of human beings on land that is in itself a crime…Yes right! wanna buy a bridge?
"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [i.e., securing inherent and inalienable rights, with powers derived from the consent of the governed], it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." –Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:315
From the Declaration of Independence. Not only do you have the right to overthrow your government, it is a responsibility placed on us by a founding fathers. If our government betrays us, acts other then in accordance to our wishes or we feel changes need to be made it is our obligation to do so
If there is a God, a bunch of Americans are going to be fileted like trout for scourging these innocent prisoners.
exactly-the whole rotten country needs to be dissolved….