– Welcome to Guantanamo: Obama’s Hunger Striking, Force Feeding Torture Camp (Liberty Blitzkrieg, May 1, 2013):
What’s happening in Guantanamo Bay right now is bad, very bad. For those of you who aren’t paying attention, 100 of the 166 prisoners at Gitmo are engaged in a hunger strike and some of them are in such dire straights they are being brutally force fed. No big deal you say? Well the American Medical Association (AMA) disagrees and they are concerned that such treatment is contrary to medical ethics. In fact, the AMA’s president sent a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel asking him “to address any situation in which a physician may be asked to violate the ethical standards of his or her profession.”
And yes, this is on Obama. While he blames Congress (as usual) for not closing the facility, in reality all he ever wanted to do was just move it to the United States. The man is a pathological liar.
From Reuters:
(Reuters) – The Navy sent extra medical personnel to the Guantanamo detention camp because of a growing hunger strike, and the American Medical Association questioned whether doctors were being asked to violate their ethics by force-feeding prisoners.
He said 100 of the 166 detainees had joined a hunger strike that began in February to protest their continued detention at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in eastern Cuba. Twenty-one of those had lost enough weight that they were being fed liquid supplements via tubes inserted in their noses and down into their stomachs, House said.
On Thursday, the president of the American Medical Association sent a letter to U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel reiterating its long-held position that it is a violation of medical ethics to force-feed mentally competent adults who refuse food and life-saving treatment.
It urged the defense secretary “to address any situation in which a physician may be asked to violate the ethical standards of his or her profession.”
Military officials say the feedings are done gently, using soft, flexible, lubricated tubes.
Attorney David Remes, who was notified by the military that his Yemeni client, Yasin Ismael, was being tube-fed, gave a starkly different description.
“It can be extremely painful. One of my clients said that it’s like having a razor blade go down through your nose and into your throat,” Remes said.
He said detainees who resist tube-feedings were forcibly removed from their cells by soldiers in riot gear. “It’s really like the way you would treat an animal,” he said.
Apparently, this is the cost of freedom. No charges, no trial, no problem.
Full article here.
In Liberty,
Mike
This needs a lot more publicity than it is getting. Here is a link from Russia Today.
http://rt.com/usa/guantanamo-attorney-dead-suicide-699/
I never thought our country would fall this low. Don’t people understand what is done to them can be done to all? I am advanced in years, I won’t be alive for much of the hell I see coming, but young people had better wake up, or they will be living in a nightmare beyond their worst dreams.
Thanks for covering this story.
One other thing. I am quite ill with cancer of the spine. I eat nearly nothing, because I don’t want to live in such pain. Should these people not have the right to do the same? I don’t know them, but they are people, too. Throughout history, people have chosen death over pain. Why keep them in misery?