Wow, this is some pretty fucked up shit. Foreigners can honestly win arguments against Americans through Godwin’s Law now.
By the way, when Omar Khadr’s (one of those children mentioned in the article above) lawyers released these interrogation videos online, it created a big stir in the media.
And not always in the righteous-outrage way. There were Americans who laughed, and said he deserved it all. (My grandfather was one of them, and he didn’t even know what Khadr was charged with.) Really? Even if he did really kill an American soldier with a grenade in a firefight (and the Pentagon admitted they have no proof of this), did he really deserve this? He was captured at the age of fifteen, and has been held for the last six years in Guantanamo. That’s nearly a third of his life! And we have video proof of torture, which occurred God knows how often during his stay in Cuba. Even the sickest American serial killers got better treatment than that.
I can’t even begin to imagine what his psychological state is. He’s so eager to get out of there, he’s the only detainee willing to go through a military tribunal now rather than wait for the Supreme Court’s recent decision to work itself out and get a regular trial.
Oh, and fun fact I learned today… even if Khadr and the other detainees win their trials and are found innocent of their crimes, they can still be held indefinitely by the US government until the President overturns their status as “enemy combatants,” or ends our “War on Terror.”
Wow, that looked like some ring girl shit. It hella scared me when I saw it!