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Reshmi

Reshmi — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent Grace...u make me crave for such articles more on Insta! U can create a mystical maze with words...amazing! Keep them coming :)

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you, ma’am! I will keep them coming, especially for Reshmi! :)

Bijoy

Bijoy — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Camp 7, Guantanamo–> these words have become synonomous with the higest level of atrocities that can be inflicted on a person just in the name of ’interrogation’. I have a question for Bush. Would the American government be a mock , helpless, spectator if any other country in this world ’interrogates’ American citizens the same way it is doing to other non- Americans???

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hi, Bijoy! Thanks for reading. The strange part is that after years of interrogation and use of these torture techniques, as well as amassing a considerable number of bounty-paid detainees, the Joint Forces in Guantanamo have not really squeezed out what they want to know. The ’big boss’ is still somewhere.

Isn’t that strange? :)

Russell

Russell — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Grace -

Excellent writeup. I must congratulate you for writing so well on a grave issue of human rights violation by a country that champions its cause all around the world. The world must constantly be kept reminded of the hundreds of prisoners lying in the legal limbo there for years and tortured brutally.

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Russell. I didn’t want to give the grave issue a heavy treatment, hence, it is written that way.

But it is a heavy issue, very heavy, in fact. It is a very quaint system, human justice is.

No one really knows if they’re guilty. Only the detainees can say that.

Siamak

Siamak — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This disgraceful chapter in the history of United States of America is right up there along with the systematic extermination of indigenous Red Indian tribes, lynching of blacks, and the atomic bombing of Japan in the book of the blackest deeds by humankind.

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It can go on and on, Siamak, if left unreined. It will only have the uncanny ability to replicate more chapters of the same kind.

Jaiyant Cavale

Jaiyant Cavale — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

America is a juggernaut that shall destroy everything in its path and finally itself. Until it destroys itself others will continue to perish.

How about some common American politicians made to go though water boarding.. Should we begin with Colin Powell? or Donald Rumsfeld.

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hehe.. Jaiyant. What I’m curious to know is if the members of the Joint Task Force Guantanamo have tried to be water-boarded...

But I’m sure they’ve had, since it’s part of CIA and Navy SEALS training.

I wonder how long they lasted with this torture tactic...

Jaiyant Cavale

Jaiyant Cavale — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

They must have crumbled in seconds and thus started believing in it’s efficacy.. Even the ones that were tried upon would be high school drop outs lured into the Joint Task force training and recruitment....

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hehe... I like the way you put it. They must have crumbled, that’s why they know it’s effective. Good analysis, man! :)