Stumble it!The soldiers I’ve known
posted in Impeachment, Politics, War by themaiden |My dad was a veteran of World War II. I heard stories about how badly the Japanese treated prisoners during that war. It seems that no one in the nation approved such behavior.
My uncles were in Korea and Vietnam. I heard the same stories from them about the Koreans and the Vietnamese.
I heard horror stories about Stalin’s Siberian prisons and Hitler’s death camps. No one spoke of these things happily.
Yet…
America has deliberately driven hundreds, perhaps thousands, of prisoners insane.The US psychological torture system is finally on trial
How? Sensory deprivation and acid.
He was kept in a cell 9ft by 7ft, with no natural light, no clock and no calendar. Whenever Padilla left the cell, he was shackled and suited in heavy goggles and headphones. Padilla was kept under these conditions for 1,307 days. He was forbidden contact with anyone but his interrogators, who punctured the extreme sensory deprivation with sensory overload, blasting him with harsh lights and pounding sounds. Padilla also says he was injected with a “truth serum”, a substance his lawyers believe was LSD or PCP.
One thousand three hundred and seven days… that is three and half years or so. Of course, why stop one?
The techniques used to break Padilla have been standard operating procedure at Guantánamo Bay since the first prisoners arrived five years ago. They wore blackout goggles and sound-blocking headphones and were placed in extended isolation, interrupted by strobe lights and heavy metal music. These same practices have been documented in dozens of cases of “extraordinary rendition” carried out by the CIA, as well as in prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Lib’ral probably make it out as worse than it though.
According to James Yee, a former army Muslim chaplain at Guantánamo, there is an entire section of the prison called Delta Block for detainees who have been reduced to a delusional state. “They would respond to me in a childlike voice, talking complete nonsense. Many of them would loudly sing childish songs, repeating the song over and over.” All the inmates of Delta Block were on 24-hour suicide watch.
Human Rights Watch has exposed a US-run detention facility near Kabul known as the “prison of darkness” - tiny pitch-black cells, strange blaring sounds. “Plenty lost their minds,” one former inmate recalled. “I could hear people knocking their heads against the walls and the doors.”
What in the hell happened to us?
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