Guantanamo Is The Cats Meow!
I recently recieved the following e-mail from the American Family Association:
Dear xxxxxx,
Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second highest ranking Democrat in the Senate, speaking on the Senate floor Wednesday, compared American troops
at Guantanamo Naval Base to Hitler, the Soviet gulags and Cambodian mass murderer Pol Pot.Hitler murdered two million Christians and six million Jews. Nearly two million prisoners died in the Soviet gulags. And Pol Pot slaughtered as many as ten million in Cambodia.
Durbin compared the American troops to Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot because of alleged mistreatment of prisoners held at Guantanamo. What earned these American troops the disparaging remarks by Senator Durbin? He said that
some prisoners air conditioners were turned down too low, some had their air conditioners turned off making the room hot, and loud rap music was played in
a room where there were prisoners.That a U.S. Senator would compare American military men and women to Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pott is beyond belief. Does he not remember 9/11?
When asked to apologize, he refused. He said it is the military that should apologize for how they were treating the prisoners of war.
TAKE ACTION
Send Senator Durbin an email reminding him that our soldiers are there to
serve their country by guarding the prisoners of war, and that they do a pretty good job.
According to the founder of the AFA, Donald E. Wildmon, Guantanamo sounds like a pretty happy place, eh? That satanic organization, The Red Cross ( ya know that organization founded by that demon, Henry Dunant) seems to think otherwise. They reported that
“Some of the elements the ICRC found ‘were tantamount to torture…. I think you will have different definitions of what torture amounts to; what we feel, and I think what you see from the photographs…is that there were clearly instances of degrading and inhumane treatment.’”
Truthout.org said
The information from the various sources frequently matched, providing corroboration of the use of specific procedures, which included prolonged sleep deprivation and shackling prisoners in uncomfortable positions for many hours. One F.B.I. agent wrote his superiors that he saw such restraining techniques several times. In the most gruesome of the bureau memorandums, he recounted observing a detainee who had been shackled overnight in a hot cell, soiled himself and pulled out tufts of hair in misery.
Military officials who participated in the practices said in October that prisoners had been tormented by being chained to a low chair for hours with bright flashing lights in their eyes and audio tapes played loudly next to their ears, including songs by Lil’ Kim and Rage Against the Machine and rap performances by Eminem.
In a recent interview, another former official added new details, saying that many interrogators used a different audio tape on prisoners, a mix of babies crying and the television commercial for Meow Mix in which the jingle consists of repetition of the word “meow.”
The AFA website states that
The American Family Association represents and stands for traditional family values, focusing primarily on the influence of television and other media including pornography on our society.
Is it a traditional family value to torture a prisoner to the point he shits himself? I find it highly ironic that the AFA supports torture including the music of Eminem. In August of 2001 they said
Hes won awards for singing songs about killing his mother, killing his wife and gang-raping his sister.
The thought that a supposedly pro-family, pro-Christian organization supporting this type of behavior is appalling. Would Jesus support the torture of these “enemy combatants?”
Matthew 5
39But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
He also said
Luke 22
When Jesus’ followers saw what was going to happen, they said, “Lord, should we strike with our swords?” 50And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.
51But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And he touched the man’s ear and healed him.
52Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders, who had come for him, “Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come with swords and clubs? 53Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on me. But this is your hourwhen darkness reigns.”
Hour of darkness indeed….
When a Christian organization supports torture and shills for an obviously corrupt government administration, another passage comes to mind.
Matthew 7:
5″Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.21″Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
So the question remains… are soldiers in Guantanamo doing ” the will” of “the Father?”
war, what is it good for? | admin June 17, 2005
