The Shock Doctrine: The Love Shack... page 338

Joanne98

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The Shock Doctrine: The Love Shack... page 338

Edited on Sun Jan-06-08 04:19 PM by Joanne98

At the US run prison at Guantanamo Bay, there is a room known as "the love shack." Detainees are taken there after their captors have decided they are not enemy combatants and will soon be released. Inside the love shack, prisoners are allowed to watch Hollywood movies and are plied with American junk food.

Asif Iqbal, one of three British detainees known as the "Tipton Three," was permitted several visits there before he and his two friends were finally sent home. "We would get to watch DVDs, eat McDonald's, eat Pizza Hut and basically chill out. We were not shackled in this area... We had no idea why they were being like that to us. the rest of the week we were back in the cages as usual.

On one occasion Lesley (an FBI official) brought Pringles, ice cream, and chocolates, this was the final Sunday before we came back to England." His friend Rhuhel Ahmed speculated that the special treatment "was because they knew they messed us about and tortured us for two and a half years and they hoped we would forget it."

Ahmed and Iqbal had been grabbed by the Northern Alliance while visiting Afghanistan on their way to a wedding. They had been violnetly beaten, injected with unidentified drugs, put in stress positions for hours, sleep deprived. forcibly shaven and denied all legal rights for twenty-nine months. And yet, they were suppose to "forget it" in the face of the overwhelming allure of Pringles. That was actually the plan.

It's hard to believe-but then again, that was pretty much Washington's game plan for Iraq: shock and terrorize the entire country, delibertely runin its infastruture, do nothing while its culture and history are ransacked, then make it all okay with an unlimited supply of cheap household appliances and imported junk food.

Im having to much fun with these pictures!

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gateley

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Sun Jan-06-08 04:19 PM
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1. K&R! nt

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2. kick

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Sun Jan-06-08 07:45 PM
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3. Another recommend and

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knitter4democracy

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Sun Jan-06-08 08:35 PM
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4. Just because that works on Americans doesn't mean it will work in Gitmo.

Sheesh. Sure, junk food and bad movies keep our populace mostly quiet (that and working our asses off for not enough pay and massive debt chasing us every step of the way). That doesn't mean that it'll make someone forget being tortured.

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Sun Jan-06-08 09:17 PM
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5. it's not so surprising how junk food and (propaganda) movies

(I include the likes of CNN, etc., as propaganda movies) have made so many americans 'forget' stuff.

thanks for posting these Shocks, Joanne. ;)

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