#Guantanamo Bay prison

[archivyrep]

Secrets, inter-agency conflicts, bureaucracy, and Kent the redactor in "The Mauritanian"

Stuart Couch, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, looks at the case file of Slahi about 13 minutes into the film, and begins to hear the government’s narrative of what they “know” about Slahi. It is true that he did fight with al-Qaeda in the 1990s, but his involvement after that is only “proved” with torture When I started watching The Mauritanian on Netflix, I didn’t know that records would be such…

[arguablysomaya]

i was pro reconciliation but now jason is beyond justified if he killed bruce in cold fucking blood, let alone never talked to him for the rest of time

[reality-detective]

After Obama tried to shut Guantanamo Bay down, Trump came in and expanded it.

Does anyone find that strange? 🤔

[daisylovesrumble]

Close Guantánamo | Amnesty International USA

The military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay is a glaring, longstanding stain on the human rights record of the United States.

[vriendenboekjes]

my dad has the special gift of picking the most unpleasant movies to watch

[elmacheteillustrated]

21st Anniversary of the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay Cuba

[cheerfullycatholic]

In 2005, a short time before DeSantis’s arrival, many detainees at Guantanamo went on a hunger strike to protest the harsh conditions at the camp. Tensions were high during this time period in a place already fraught with turbulence and distress. The strike was still going on when DeSantis began his post there. With his position as a JAG officer who had regular contact with detainees, DeSantis would have been aware of the situation, both from the military’s point of view as well as from those taking part in the strike. Mansoor Adayfi, who was detained at Guantanamo at the time and participating in the hunger strike, recalled a visit he had with DeSantis, where he was told, “I am here to ensure you are treated humanely.” This turned out not to be the case as the hunger strike would soon be forcefully broken. To break the strike, those participating would be restrained and force-fed Ensure nutritional shakes through nasal tubes multiple times a day. The United Nations human rights experts have declared that the “forced-feeding of detainees on hunger strike must be assessed as amounting to torture.” The World Medical Association, in their Declaration of Malta on Hunger Strikes, stated: “Hunger strikers should be protected from coercion,” and “where a prisoner refuses nourishment and is considered by the physician as capable of forming an unimpaired and rational judgment concerning the consequences of such a decision, he or she shall not be fed artificially.” As a JAG officer with regular contact with those detained, it is highly probable DeSantis would have been well aware of the extreme measures being taken to break the hunger strike. According to Adayfi, "Ron DeSantis was there watching us. We were crying, screaming. We were tied to the feeding chair. And he was watching. He was laughing."

[agreenroad]

I WAS THE ONLY US OFFICIAL IMPRISONED OVER THE GUANTANAMO BAY TORTURE PROGRAM — BECAUSE I OPPOSED IT

I WAS THE ONLY US OFFICIAL IMPRISONED OVER THE TORTURE PROGRAM — BECAUSE I OPPOSED IT

[serious2020]

Corona Virus 🦠 is “back”. …

“Back?” COVID-19 hasn’t ever left … news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-is-back-but-how-worried-should-you-be-184008685.html

[gwarden123]

I actually think I would have liked more drowned stormtroopers in the flooded sections of the fortress. Make it suitably horrifying and grandiose, with the full scale of the destruction you wrought and all the people who died horrible and slow deaths because of your actions. Give it some weight.

[minnesotafollower]

U.N. Demands Release of Guantanamo Prisoner

In November 2022 (and publicly released on  April 28, 2023), the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which has no enforcement powers,  urged the U.S. to release  immediately a prisoner (Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Husayn) who was captured in Pakistan in 2002 and became the first prisoner at a CIA “black site” (secret prison) where he was waterboarded and thereafter held until he was…

[troythecatfish]

Israel's Sde Teiman torture centre has been compared to Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, even being dubbed worse

As more testimonies and evidence emerges from inside Sde Teiman, a detention facility that holds thousands of Palestinians without a charge at an Israeli military base in Al-Naqab (the Negev), the conditions at the torture facility appear to be even worse than previously believed. Systematic sexual abuse, the rape of prisoners with burning and electrocution rods, other kinds of torture, starvation, urinating on prisoners and much more have been reported, in addition to at least 36 who have been tortured to death there.

Source: Mintpress

[queerism1969]

Atrocity created by CAPITALISM

Irish Famine (1845-1852)

Indian Famines during British colonial rule (Various, 18th-20th centuries)

Indigenous Genocide (Ongoing since colonization)

Slavery (16th-19th centuries)

Indonesian Genocide (1965-1966)

Pinochet Dictatorship (1973-1990)

Argentina Dictatorship (1976-1983)

Brazilian Dictatorship (1964-1985)

Pakistan Incident (Bangladesh Genocide, 1971)

The Gilded Age (Late 19th century)

The Great Depression (1929-1939)

Operation Condor (1960s-1980s)

Banana Wars (Early 20th century)

Batista Dictatorship (1952-1959)

Guantanamo Bay (Ongoing since 2002)

Vietnam War (1955-1975)

My Lai Massacre (1968)

Sinchon Massacre (Korean War, 1950-1953)

Kent State Massacre (1970)

Patriot Act (2001)

Red Summer (1919)

Jim Crow (Late 19th-20th centuries)

MK Ultra (1950s-1970s)

1985 MOVE bombing (1985)

1921 Battle of Blair Mountain (1921)

Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)

Mau Mau Rebellion (1952-1960)

Covert war in Yemen (Ongoing)

Stanley Meyer incident (1998)

Genocide in Turkey (Armenian Genocide and others, WWI era)

Congolese Genocide (Late 19th-20th centuries)

Greek Civil War (1946-1949)

Invasion of Cyprus by Turkey (1974)

Washita River Massacre (1868)

Minamata Disaster (1950s-1960s)

Bhopal Disaster (1984)

Kentler Project (1960s-2003)

Thomas Midgley Jr. and leaded gasoline (Early 20th century)

Forced labor in private US prisons (Ongoing)

Collateral murder in Iraq (2010)

Julian Assange and leaks (Ongoing)

US drone strikes (Ongoing)

US sanctions (Ongoing)

US support for dictatorships (Ongoing)

Korean War and civilian casualties (Korean War, 1950-1953)

Nazi funding and collaboration (WWII era)

Hitler and "Judeo-Bolshevism" (WWII era)

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

“Michele Morrow, a conservative activist who last week upset the incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction in North Carolina’s Republican primary, expressed support in 2020 for the televised execution of former President Barack Obama and suggested killing then-President-elect Joe Biden.

In other comments on social media between 2019 and 2021 reviewed by CNN’s KFile, Morrow made disturbing suggestions about executing prominent Democrats for treason, including Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Hillary Clinton, Sen. Chuck Schumer and other prominent people such as Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates.

“I prefer a Pay Per View of him in front of the firing squad,” she wrote in a tweet from May 2020, responding to a user sharing a conspiracy theory who suggested sending Obama to prison at Guantanamo Bay. “I do not want to waste another dime on supporting his life. We could make some money back from televising his death.”

In another post in May 2020, she responded to a fake Time Magazine cover that featured art of Obama in an electric chair asking if he should be executed.

“Death to ALL traitors!!” Morrow responded.

In yet another comment, Morrow suggested in December 2020 killing Biden, who at that time was president-elect, and has said he would ask Americans to wear a mask for 100 days.

“Never. We need to follow the Constitution’s advice and KILL all TRAITORS!!! #JusticeforAmerica,” she wrote.”

😡

[hamliet]

Toga Should Be Fine

Ah yes, a teen girl sacrificing herself to save another teen girl (hero, but still a TEENAGE GIRL) and saying she's doing so because she'd prefer death over life in prison. Meanwhile all of society, including heroes, are just gonna watch like this is the Hunger Games: Tokyo Drift and totally not do anything.

Sounds good! Sounds like a society worth protecting! Sounds reasonable!

slash s. I'm being sarcastic.

Listen, Hori has his flaws as a writer. However, the reality is that one of these main flaws is that Hori writes for his detractors. He probably is a person who genuinely cares and so tries to address everyone's concerns. The problem is that this leads to thematic inconsistency and whiplash framing, which I've spoken about before.

Why am I going on a tangent about this? Because to me this reads like Hori trying to directly address the prison concern for endgame. Even if they survive they'll all end up in prison! Meanwhile Tartarus is Guantanamo Bay complete with torture and inhuman evil, but that wasn't enough to convince fans, so now he's addressing it directly.

The villains aren't ending up in prison.

Nor are they dying.

A redemption arc typically does require a sacrifice, hence the "sacrificial death" trope. However, oftentimes, when the villain is particularly sympathetic and it's more thematically or character-ly interesting to leave them alive, they survive said sacrifice.

Considering a large portion of Toga's hate for heroes was based in Twice's death and Toga is literally a child saving another child who saved her because the adult heroes were too busy not caring about kids so a child hero had to do their work for them (it's a theme), it only makes sense that an adult hero (probably Hawks) will swoop in and save her.

[odinsblog]

Showtime slated “The Guantanamo Candidate,” a 30 minute-long episode of its Vice documentary series, for May 28.

The episode opens with a shot of the outside the US prison complex at the southern tip of Cuba, where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis served as a lawyer from March 2006 to January 2007.

Vice reporters had secured on camera interviews with a former detainee, Mansoor Adayfi, and a guard at the prison, staff sergeant Joe Hickman. Both said they remembered seeing DeSantis at the prison during a controversial detainee hunger strike. The Vice crew traveled to Guantanamo Bay to attempt to try to speak to military staff, and made several attempts to ask DeSantis about the allegations directly, eventually confronting him at a press conference in Israel, according to a detailed description provided to Semafor.

But Showtime viewers who turned on their televisions May 28 never saw the episode. (They were treated to a re-run of the scripted drama Yellowjackets.)

Showtime and Vice cited “scheduling” in a statement after The Hollywood Reporter noticed the missing episode.

But in fact, two people familiar with the incident said, the Paramount-owned cable channel ditched the DeSantis episode over fears of the political consequences. One person briefed on the decision told Semafor that the company’s Washington lobbyist, DeDe Lea, raised concerns about the piece.

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