Gitmo: Shocking Force Feeding Video!

You must of heard about how Gitmo strikers are being force feed through the nose. Have a look at what happens to a celebrity volunteer. http://youtu.be/yPl62ggDDTc?t=1m59s

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Reply 1

ESPORTIVA

Love mos defs music and respect him as an artist.......but this is very over the top, it seems as if he is acting.

That doesnt make force feeding right though, im very much against it.

Basically

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Reply 4

Norton1

The fact is that he just doesn't come across as an 'honest broker', he seems to overact and make a meal of the whole thing. Plus, he's able to move his head, what's the point of the restraint?

It would have been better to do it with someone like Christopher Hitchens, who submitted to waterboarding having said in the past that he did not believe it to be torture.

Reply 5

username948920

Holy smokes - that's horrible!

Reply 6

Daniel Prince

That's a quality piece of acting.

Reply 7

jama mj

Original post by MJK91

Just a thought: if they don't get force fed, they could die pretty horribly. Not really in their own best interest especially when there is already pressure on the White House to close the place down.

Rather than starving themselves, the media should just keep bashing the US until they do something to fix it.[/QUO

there are much easier and lot less painful ways of keeping them alive. the point of force feeding is to subject them to extremely painful torture under the pretense of keeping them from dying. they do this horrific procedure to the hunger strikers twice a day and the only way of making the torture stop is to give up the strike.

Reply 8

bertstare

Original post by jama mj

Just a thought: if they don't get force fed, they could die pretty horribly. Not really in their own best interest especially when there is already pressure on the White House to close the place down.

Rather than starving themselves, the media should just keep bashing the US until they do something to fix it.

there are much easier and lot less painful ways of keeping them alive. the point of force feeding is to subject them to extremely painful torture under the pretense of keeping them from dying. they do this horrific procedure to the hunger strikers twice a day and the only way of making the torture stop is to give up the strike.

Not saying force feeding is right, but the nasogastric intubation they do to him is done pretty often in medical scenarios - it's absolutely nothing like "extremely painful torture" even if it is a little uncomfortable. Guy was faking it like hell

Reply 9

filastini

Original post by MJK91

Just a thought: if they don't get force fed, they could die pretty horribly.

That's the point. They are willing to die. They've lost the will to live after being detained and tortured for over a decade and still not being told what they're in for or being charged for anything.

Original post by MJK91

Not really in their own best interest especially when there is already pressure on the White House to close the place down.

They've got nothing to lose. If they die then it will create new problems for the White House and in turn may improve conditions for the inmates still alive.

Original post by MJK91

Rather than starving themselves, the media should just keep bashing the US until they do something to fix it.

Why would the media want to do that? And when did the media change any US policy?

Reply 10

Kiss

Original post by MJK91

If I was in US custody I'd rather die a gruesome death as a martyr than endure their torturous methods; they disgust me, and I as long as Gitmo and it's methods remain intact, I won't regard the US security services as human.

Reply 11

Olenna Tyrell

Original post by jama mj

there are much easier and lot less painful ways of keeping them alive.

Like?

Reply 12

congpert2

never could get to grips with those things.

Reply 13

scotttb

Original post by Norton1

he seems to overact and make a meal of the whole thing..

Pun intended? :holmes:

Reply 14

jama mj

Original post by Olenna Tyrell

Like?

they could be fed using a drip used for people in comas or unconscious

Reply 15

jama mj

Original post by bertstare

its actually prohibited by the world medical association and i think their judgments take precedence over your analysis of a video on the internet.

Reply 16

jama mj

Original post by MJK91

these guys are water boarded, tortured and humiliated on a regular basis, did you think this hunger strike was for fun? i'd rather die than endure that kind of punishment and i think those hunger strikers would agree

Reply 17

SR255

Imprisoned without trial for 11 years? That is medieval. How are they getting away with this?

Reply 18

Olenna Tyrell

Original post by jama mj

they could be fed using a drip used for people in comas or unconscious

It would still be forced though, or else they would just rip it out if they were so adamant on not eating.

Reply 19

jama mj

Original post by Olenna Tyrell

It would still be forced though, or else they would just rip it out if they were so adamant on not eating.

they are restrained during the force feeding so they have no choice in the matter. but the less painful and humane method would be appropriate. there is a huge difference between the two forms of force feeding.