A friend writes: Dear Mark,
I suppose I will not be the only one to point out that Wilkerson today says there has been no torture since Abu Ghraib revelations in 2004. Yet today you posted a report on our thugs beating the shit out of detainees on Guantanamo. What gives? Clayton E Here's what gives: Wilkerson says that torture meant to extract information hasn't happened for some time. What's happening at Gitmo (and Wilkerson was not referring to it) is something else--brutal treatment by a goon squad put there to enforce a sort of discipline. You could call it overly aggressive policing of the prisoners; but it amounts to torture, as Jeremy Scahill has noted. So, while the torture that had some (perverted) purpose has now stopped, our nation's personnel are, right now, torturing the Gitmo prisoners for no good reason. MCM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
