Time Immortal

Why am I reminded of the videos for school warning one not to anger the primates as they would throw feces at you if you did?

A question would be whether the radical Islam the prisoners hold dear does not give them the courage or sense of decorum not to behave in such ways (such as the courage and decorum [John McCain] displayed in his time as a POW as related at the Saddleback forum with Rick Warren), or whether it engenders such behaviour towards blasphemers, or whether the prisoners are subjugated to such conditions, psychologically, that they are reduced to such a state.

That they get menu choice and exercise equipment would seem to indicate the third option is of low probability.

And if the U.S. was committing the crimes some of the critics of Gitmo claim they are, why would giving such things enter their minds? Or maybe the torture has ended with recent court rulings and they now enjoy the good life of many criminals here in Canada, such as those who are guilty of major crimes receiving house arrest or minimum security jail like the recent escapees from Regina.

But I would like to expand on a point made in reply to another article. As prisoners, regardless of classification, they may not (and should not) receive the right, say, to demand particular diets. But demanding they eat certain foods on a standard menu is different than intentionally making all their food defiled by exposing it to, say, bacon grease. Depending on their adherence to the rules relating to diet, the latter can kill them by starvation, the former need not. And, don’t we want living prisoners, in this case, from whom we can gain intelligence?

And this consideration is more important in cases where the ‘victim’ of ‘diet defilement’ is not yet found to be guilty of a crime, although accused “guests” of the state need not have rights to demand certain diets, either. After all, if they are actually innocent, then such behaviour could rightly be considered “cruel and unusual punishment” or some other such legal concept and the focus of a lawsuit which, given the general body of rulings given by the courts these days, would likely expand the rights inmates, both accused and guilty, would enjoy.