Posted on 03/23/2023 9:23:09 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) denied authorizing force-feeding – a practice that international groups have said amounts to torture – during his time at Guantanamo Bay, according to a new interview.
In an interview airing Thursday on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” DeSantis said the allegations that he authorized force-feeding at Guantanamo Bay were “absolutely” wrong, saying that he did not have the authority to do so.
“I was a junior officer. I didn’t have authority to authorize anything,” he told Piers Morgan. “There may have been a commander that would have done feeding if someone was going to die, but that was not something that I would have even had authority to do.”
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I guess we should have let them starve?
all those terrorists there should of be EXECUTED!!
they were unlawful combatants according to the geneva accords and were thus not protected by treaty.
DeSantis handlers agree to interview, mandating what will be covered and not covered.
Was it a TikTok challenge?
What about the J6 prisoners in the D.C. gulag? Our so called leaders should be demanding their release.
Typical Democrate smear tactics.
1. Make baseless allegations.
2. Lapdog Media repeats it without fact checking
3. Put the candidate on defense with baseless accusations.
4. Repeat and repeat and repeat with new baseless accusations. This is what they did to Trump.
Note: Harry Reid (a vile man even when dead) claimed that Mitt Romney paid no income taxes. This was a lie. After the election when confronted by the media (conveniently after the election) Harry Reid said, “It worked didn’t it?”
You tube link to Nancy Pelosi explaining how they smear an opponent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7mqzuwAbRc
I would have let them starve themselves to death.
Waiting for the Trump cultists to claim it is true.....
That is also above a junior JAG officer's pay-grade.
It does seem a tad early for the leftists to try to take DS out.
Are they thinking he could be more formidable next November?
The left has begun the process of trashing him. They went back a few years to find (or create) this allegation.
Trump 2024, DeSantis 2028.
This attack is not coming from the right. It is coming from the neolib leftists.
Force feeding people is much better than starving them.
"On December 29, 2016, a New York appellate court ruled that prison officials did not violate a prisoner's rights by medically force feeding him. The court found that the prison's responsibilities for "safety and discipline" and to prevent imminent death or serious injury overrode the prisoner's right to refuse medical treatment and to privacy.
Cite: No. 520580 (C.A. NY 3rd), December 29, 2016
Conclusion: Bench Verdict
Level: State Supreme Court
Year: 2016
If it's policy for prisoners in New York State, then it's policy for the U.S. Government.
So would I, but unfortunately the courts won't let you allow terrorists to starve to death, only innocent people like Terri Schiavo.
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