Posted on 06/06/2013 3:27:58 PM PDT by KingofZion
The number of hunger strikers being force-fed by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has risen to 41, with the protest showing no signs of abating more than a week after President Obama renewed his commitment to close the detention facility.
The military said in a statement Thursday that 103 detainees are on hunger strike and that 41 of them are being force-fed. The military also said four detainees who are being force-fed are being observed at the hospital.
None of the hunger strikers has a life-threatening condition, said Lt. Col. Samuel House, a spokesman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo.
*** The hunger strike began in early February and grew steadily, as more and more detainees joined the protest. The initial catalyst was a decision by the guard force at Guantanamo Bay to search detainees Korans. The military said that detainees have used Korans to hide contraband, and that the searches were conducted by Muslim cultural advisers, not ordinary guards. The prisoners objected and said the searches amounted to desecration.
The hunger strike quickly became a wider protest about what the detainees considered the presidents abandonment of his policy to close the facility. Both the military and civilian attorneys for the detainees, as well as the International Committee of the Red Cross, said despair is widespread among the detainees because of their indefinite detention.
The Red Cross and the American Medical Association have expressed concern about the force-feeding of prisoners, saying detainees have a right to fast, even to death, if they are of clear mind. The military insists that it will do everything it can to preserve the lives of the hunger strikers.
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If it's torture to waterboard them, we should not force feed them. Let them starve to death!
Dig 41 graves and show them being lined with pig innards.
Let them then choose to eat and live or starve to death and be buried with pigs.
They’ll force feed muslim prisoners, but take away hot breakfasts from our troops in Afghanistan?
As one can tell, my patience is at an end.
You cannot rationalize with mad dogs
and since as yet we cannot kill a billion
and a whatever muslims, we must strike at
the pillars of their belief and that would
be the protection of their “sacred” places.
Headshots. 230gr .45cal ACP HPs. End of Troglodyte problem.
I don’t understand why we are feeding them? Why?
New here, aren’t you.
The Founding Fathers would have had them hanged years ago.
If they were serious about a hunger strike, they wouldn’t allow themselves to be force-fed.
See “Bobby Sands”.
I know how to put and end to this quickly.
Don’t force them to eat.
If they don’t want to eat, then let them not eat.
Sheesh!
Isn’t feeding them when they don’t want to eat, a violation of their human rights?
A very poor “first post ever” on FR, NOOB!
Bacon's precious. Give 'em scrapple.
I sense a hint of ozone in the air.
IBTZ.
The Founding Fathers knew how to deal with the enemy -- you are very mistaken in what principles guided them.
argentus...
he/she/it has been vaporized
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This account has been banned or suspended.
Thanks, I suspected it wouldn’t be long.
Let them starve. We need to make room at Gitmo for IRS senior executives.
I sent a note to the Admin Moderator on this when I saw the despicable post requesting that the author be shown the door. Normally, I would have perhaps at least made an attempt to engage the miscreant in some form of corrective dialog.
Not on D-Day! When I think of the ultimate sacrifices made by so many, the remark defending our enemies at Gitmo was just too much -- even for me, a rather easy-going individual. I saw no reason why such an individual should tarnish this day with such a vile message.
Accede to their wishes. Didn’t Terry Schindler Schiavo tell us it was a peaceful, pleasant way to go? Well, at least that’s what her HINO’s lawyers said.
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