Reply With QuoteIsn't one of the main aspects of a hunger strike, is that the person(s) CHOOSE not to eat and can change their mind when they decide to end it?Originally Posted by Aoxomoxoa
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Life under lockdown at America’s hunger-striking prison camps
America’s offshore war-on-terror prison camp has gone from peaceable routine to hunger-striking nightmare. A look at life at the prison where nearly every captive is under lockdown.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/2...-americas.html
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Isn't one of the main aspects of a hunger strike, is that the person(s) CHOOSE not to eat and can change their mind when they decide to end it?
SEDITION: incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority.
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They are being force fed with a tube inserted into a nostril and down into the stomach.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22140663
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YEP, what seems to be the problem?
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Well, part of the problem is that at least 100 of those inmates have been designated as not being a security risk.
Last edited by cancel2 2022; 04-28-2013 at 05:14 PM.
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Which has nothing to do with the hunger strike and your angst at the prison making sure they don't starve to death.
Just think how much attention you could seek, if it was reported that they were allowed to starve themselves to death.
WHY; you could start a CT that they were starved to death on purpose.
SEDITION: incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority.
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FOOLS ARE LUCKY THEY WERE NOT TAKEN BY GLORIOUS MOTHERLAND, WHO HAS NO NEED TO MAKE HUGGING OF TERRORIST CHECHANS.
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Having a slow night, Grind?
SEDITION: incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority.
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The Navy sent extra medical personnel to the Guantanamo detention camp because of a growing hunger strike as the American Medical Association questioned whether doctors were being asked to violate their ethics by force-feeding prisoners. The reinforcements arrived at the weekend and included about 40 nurses, specialists and hospital corpsmen, who are trained to provide basic medical care, Army Lieutenant Colonel Samuel House, a spokesman for the detention camp said, said on Monday. He said 100 of the 166 detainees had joined a hunger strike that began in February to protest their continued detention at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in eastern Cuba.
Twenty-one of those had lost enough weight that they were being fed liquid supplements via tubes inserted in their noses and down into their stomachs, House said. Five were in the hospital for observation but did not have life-threatening conditions, he said.
On Thursday, the president of the American Medical Association sent a letter to U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel reiterating its long-held position that it is a violation of medical ethics to force-feed mentally competent adults who refuse food and life-saving treatment.
You lookin' at my pint?
No, they're not biting, Tom.
Must be preoccupied with the 25 pages discussing that schoolboy's T-shirt. Priorities, eh?
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They have their priorities right on here, the T-shirt has had 485 replies up to now.
You lookin' at my pint?
Well, human rights are important.
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Darla
Exactly.
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Well the Second Amendment does say that there is a right to bare arms, so t-shirts are protected by the Constitution.
Darla
Other than the obsession with the poor schoolkid who had to abide a dress code ( a clear human rights violation and I am waiting for a fund, like a UNICEF for bad clothing decisions, so that I can make a donation), I think the reason why this subject won't get much play is because conservatives are authoritarians. They are for this. They actually love this shit. It's Democrats and nominal liberals who are against this, and the problem is, a good many of them will not come out against Obama. You can see this if you go to a place like the Huffington post. It's really amazing. It's a cult of personality combined with a "my team" mentality. I think the bush years and the Obama years have shown that very few people actually have values they won't sell down the river for their party, their side, their team.
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