Thursday, June 16, 2005

Senator Turban Durbin: "Torture" !

In the Senate, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) decried the torture at Guanatamo. After a long speech filled with rhetoric, he finally got to the facts of what constituted torture:

  • "On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold"
  • "On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees."
  • "The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night."
  • "On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before"Statement

No, not no airconditioning!? What inhumanity! My brother just got back from doing reserve time over there and he dealt with 130 F heat everyday. And no airconditioning! Are we torturing are troops?
Did all people who lived in warmer climates before the invention of airconditioning were tortured?
A prisoner pulled his own hair out? My God! Not that! I bet there are thousands of prisioners in our own system that pull their own hair out.
The final insult: Loud rap music! Millions of black and white youths are torturing themselves daily because they are listening to rap music. Can I claim torture if my neighbors crank up the rap? Isn't that a bit racist actually? Being forced to listen to rap is torture?

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