Well more evidence that the recently passed 'torture bill' is doing nothing to curb torture of prisioners at Gitmo. As if any of us were fooled, here's a marine reporting that
Beatings are common and bragged about by the marines at the base.
Details on the flip if you can stomach it.
Update: This was already posted by someone else apparently. H/T Peace Voter.
I'm appalled and ashamed:
The Pentagon said Friday that it will investigate a Marine's sworn statement that guards at Guantanamo Bay bragged about beating detainees and described it as a common practice.
The Marine, a paralegal who was at the U.S. Navy station in Cuba last month, alleges that several guards she talked to at the base club said they routinely hit detainees.
"From the whole conversation, I understood that striking detainees was a common practice," the sergeant wrote. "Everyone in the group laughed at the others' stories of beating detainees."
Jebus Friggin' Christmas (my new PC attempt at swearing) what is it going to take to stop these abominal practices! Has my America really created a concentration camp? Gulags? No trial, no evidence of crime(s), no means to seek justice. I'm thorougly disgusted. WTF was this torture bill supposed to prevent, aside from bringing torturers to justice?
Let's be clear here. There is no interrogation value in physically torturing these people. They've been locked up for YEARS. Any information or trail they might lead to is completely useless at this point. Bush's justifications (although we here all knew he was full of crap) have no value here.
Spread the word to the moderate conservatives; that we are watching the Republican party push America to the brink of fascism and totalariasm. The next person they might torture might be you, your friends or your children.