Rape Rooms
Nov 1st, 2005 at 7:12 am by Susie
Digby on the continuing torture of Gitmo prisoners:
Is this some sort of American sexual panic or is it official policy that sexual violence is the best way to “interrogate” prisoners?
Every time I read this stuff it makes my stomach churn. What is being described is depraved sexual violence— rape. And I wonder about the men and women who are perpetrating these horrifying acts. This is a license to unleash the darkness which I assume exists to some extent or another in most people — and then they are going to come back into society and we are going to expect them to behave like decent people.
I’m beginning to think that we’re not dealing with interrogation at all. We’re dealing with something insidious and familiar: rape camps. It appears that based upon some strange reading of Islam that says being raped is unusually unpleasant for Muslims, we are using rape as a military strategy.
DYING TO LEAVE
HELL OR SOMETHING close to it burns on this earth. Its residents are so anxious to leave they go to the most extreme means, most recently in the most notable of ways [story] . . . when Dossari did
Um, is there a religion or group where rape is usually pleasant?
What are we going to do when this is over and the people we have allowed to do these things come home?
What we do to them we do to ourselves.
This administration has always actively practiced rape on every level — physical, financial, constitutional, intellectual, metaphorical.
The whole country (and much of the world) has been repeatedly raped for five years.