To speak blithely, this varies only by a degree of frequency, by an exaggeration of form, from common conditions in U.S. prisons domestically. As Associated Press Reporter Don Thompson writes rather glibly in his May 2007 article “California Prisons Trying to Reduce Suicides”:

     "Every 30 minutes, day and night, guards walk the tiers of the isolation unit
     at California State Prison, Sacramento, surveying inmates to make sure
     they don’t kill themselves [...] To save inmates from themselves, guards
     sometimes use pepper spray to incapacitate those who are trying to hang
     themselves."

                  A fecklessly wrangled concept. This precept that the State must preside
                                and be guide over all woundings.


Let us zoom in then, as silent wall hens, to a rare visitation of the interior facilities of GTMO, where journalist David Rose describes arriving within the premise’s military hospital and viewing the fossils of who is inside there. Finding in the acute ward, a young man chained to the bed, being fed a high-protein and vitamin mush through an uncushioned tube inserted into one of his nostrils. According to official counsel, the man had been on hunger strike for fifty days. Hazy and weak, he had been forcibly ‘nourished’ by this type of invasive piping for a ripe four and a half weeks. In response to Rose’s inquiries into the ethics of such methods, GTMO Doctor Louis Louk (the number two doctor on site) responded in a lashing flash of anger, “In my opinion, he’s a spoiled brat, like a small child who stamps his feet when he doesn’t get his way [...] All he needs now is some fattening up.”

Rattling their cups and sabers, when the patient was escorted into the ward he was 116 pounds and yet fully shackled to prevent the possible event of assault on staff. We might laugh here even – at this deliberate reversal of the existing dispersal of forces. Coarsely asked if there had indeed ever been any such attacks, a relaxed Dr. Louk rose, told Rose, that as far as he knew the answer was no.

                                So grows the distance.

What could happen versus what has ever happened in the history of the world.




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