"Every time we give them something to make their lives easier, they use it against us by trying to harm themselves."

How about giving them their freedom or their day in court?


parvum opus

In the 1930s and 40s, the German Nazis found they could not carry out their various programs of extermination without medical advice and assistance.  The question was, how did they manage to recruit doctors for this job?  The answer is that, regrettably, they had no difficulty.  

Then as now, people grew up on fantasies of "General Hospital" (or the early 20th century equivalent) and the Hypocratic Oath (named after the famous ancient Greek physicician Hypocrates), and could not imagine how doctors could be induced to willingly torture and kill.  

Then as now, the process of selecting medical candidates for training did not screen for benign intentions, and a significant portion of doctors were trained who had no qualms about commiting indecent acts.  

We are seeing such doctors now, at Guantanamo and throughout the American gulag:  America's Nazi doctors.  

One difference:  The German Nazis had their doctors work in secret, not making pronouncements in the news.  

America has already fallen farther.  

Next up, the Bush Administration's scientists explain how global warming is just an act of asymmetrical warfare and would go away if the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and all those other pesky human rights groups would just disband.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit - Edward Abbey

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I think we need to be careful not to be drawn into these clever argumentative traps devised by the GOP propagandists. They want to trick us into accepting that its OK for detainees to suicide for political reasons. They want to divert our attention from the fact that the vast majority of people being held at Guantanamo are merely victims of being in the wrong place at the wrong time when they had no connections to terrorist stuff at all. They want us to believe that it's OK to incarcerate people indefinitely, claim they're dangerous terrorists, and yet never indict and proceed to a real trial with any of them.

I say if they have terrorists detained in Guantanamo, let them bring them to trial in a court oflaw and present evidence. All the rest is bullshit, including this manipulative argument asserting political suicide somehow absolves the whole scheme from blame. It's ludicrous.

Denial is our most dangerous adversary.

Good diary cat...