Reply #4: what snopes has to say about this old letter from Mr. Daniels

[fleabert]

This is hardly LBN, but here goes

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/charlie2.asp

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When Charlie Daniels wrote his essay, the detainees were incarcerated at Camp X-Ray, a temporary holding facility near Guantanamo Bay. Inmates were kept in tin-roofed 8x8 cells that resembled dog runs: chain link fencing on a concrete base, open on the sides to the elements. They slept on foam pads placed on concrete floors in cells containing chemical toilets or buckets. At least every two days prisoners would be taken from their cells for all of 15 minutes of exercise.

The detainees have since been moved to nearby Camp Delta, a permanent detention center erected for this purpose. The 8x6.66 cells have beds and walls and windows, flush toilets and running water, but can still be described as austere. Yet it's hard to imagine how the prisoners could be housed in anything less severe. These are very dangerous people, and they want to harm whichever Americans they can get their hands on.

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my two cents: american convicts hurl all types of excrement and body fluids at their captors too, lets not fool ourselves and think that we are beyond reproach in our behaviors either. And from what I remember from reading the freeper sites, there are quite a few americans who would love to get hold of any of these detainees and kill them as well. Which is why the only response to our prisoners is to give them the upmost kindness, at a distance if necessary, but kindness. My mother taught me a good lesson when I was in HS and fighting with some girls, she asked me why they were so worthy of my energy, it takes more effort to hate than it does to love...it resonates today.

I say, turn the other cheek, while still protecting your ass. (no pun intended)