I would like to welcome you to take a virtual tour with me(Todd). This unfortunately will only be a partially guided tour. I have a few different things that I would like to show you and also some documents you may want to read.
I was watching The Good Shepherd with a friend of mine. We came to the scene where the CIA is interrogating a suspect.
Friend: What are they doing to him?(stronger language may have been used)This event combined with others recently has led to this post. I would like to start the virtual tour off with a video that was put together by PBS.
Me: Oh, don't worry that's a CIA approved interrogation technique. It's called water boarding!
Friend: They're going to drown him
Me: They are just trying to simulate drowning
Stop number 1 of the tour is here: Stop 1
I would like for you to watch all 3 videos before proceeding on the tour. Think about the video and what you have learned for a moment. Do you support sending people to other nations to be tortured? What does torture do to a human? I can only imagine since I have never been tortured. I imagine that it would permanently change you for life.
Look what happened to Sayyid Qutb who was tortured in Egyptian prisons. He supposedly had a direct connection to Osama bin Laden and the Autumn 2001 event. You can partially thank Greeley for that one. If you want to watch some videos on this, you can click here and also here.
Stop 2 -
I came across a news article that said a manual for the day to day operations of Guantanamo Bay. Wired has an article that talks more about the release of this document. Wired also had a link to the manual. Do we really need to have instructions on the proper way to use dogs with prisoners? Do we need to use dogs with prisoners?
The whole point of this post was to expose some people who might not be aware to the extent the United States abuses some of it's prisoners. Hopefully everyone will keep in mind that it is the policies of our current administration that has allowed these things to occur. It you find yourself in disagreement with the idea of secret prisons and also turning over people that we have arrested to other countries so they can be tortured for us—then perhaps we should all take a serious view towards the presidential elections of 2008. This means you may need to get involved now instead of just waiting to see who gets the nominations for the different parties.