In anticipation of Obama's term. A taste of things to come? Incidentally, why not also teach the jihadists to be stand-up comics -- they seem so serious all the time?
"Guantanamo detainees to have art lessons and video games to distract from jihad," by Tom Leonard for the Telegraph, November 24 (thanks to Christopher):
Terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay are to be offered art classes, Game Boys and film nights to distract them from thoughts of global jihad.So prisoners who do not receive Game Boys are living a "Spartan existence"? My how the connotations of that word have changed.
Detention camp staff at the US Navy base in Cuba are already teaching English to the 255 inmates despite fears that it might allow them to eavesdrop on their guards.Barack Obama, the US president-elect, has promised to close the camp, which was set up to hold foreign terrorism suspects captured after the American-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
However, convinced that such a decision is a long way from being carried out, camp staff are attempting to soften the notoriously Spartan existence of Guantanamo inmates.
"We want to keep their brains stimulated. We're not here to give degrees," Zak, the camp's Arab-American cultural advisor, told the Miami Herald."Once they are engaged and busy, they leave the guards alone."
Initiatives will include circulating Egyptian newspapers and Game Boy-style electronic games around the tiny cells and holding more "movie nights" featuring pre-recorded sport.
Art and geology classes will also be offered, although the former will not include sharp objects. Prisoners are already allowed to have crayons and Zak said some were "good artists".
Geology was chosen as a subject because it is grounded in earth and science issues rather than more sensitive areas such as politics and religion, he said.
"They draw greeting cards for family. They draw weapons," he said. "They draw whatever they want. You can't stop a detainee from thinking." Kristin Wilhelm, a lawyer who represents Guantanamo detainees, said the cultural programme was seven years too late.
She said that when one of her clients made greetings cards for people at her law firm, camp censors stamped each of them "secret" and confiscated them.
"It was always my view that the government was afraid to allow the drawings to be released, because it humanised my client," she said.
'it humanised my client/." I thought we'd already established on another post that criminals are human too?
This is a great idea. It's time that we teach the jihadis that, instead of killing people for their god, why not paint a picture of a flower?
I predict great success with this plan.
No doubt, Goob, that a flower is just a metaphor for jihad martyrdom for many of this crew; but, hey, why not teach them English, the better to integrate them into the host society that they wish to destroy and subdue?
This made me so furious!
jewcat,
We established that Muslim criminals are human, because they are Muslim; the rest of us, criminal or otherwise, are guilty and akin to beasts beause we're not,
Muslim, that is.
Just let them go. After their frontal lobotomies, I mean.
You know, it's really a sad day when our country treats terrorists better than we treat our own troops.
On the DW thread, it was noted how Castro is complaining about the US war on terror. Maybe these Club Gitmo members could be sent to Havana, where they could be treated in Castro's state of the art medical facilities that Michael Moore praised so much. After all the torture they underwent at Gitmo, don't we want to ensure that they are okay as soon as they are released? And who better to do that than Cuba's healthcare system?
Maybe that's the trick, if we inundate them with American pop culture of all kinds, their brains won't be able to think of jihad. All they'll want to do is chill out on the wacky weed.
This still doesn't irritate me as much as the fact that they get Korans, handled by guards in gloves, no less.
"humanised my client," islamist appologists seem to have a theme about when their people are found guilty, that the law does not want others to think that they are really human, well maybe their actions are inhumane, but these islamists are nothing more than human terrorists, that plain and simple. Do these islamist appologist think that because these murderous terrorists can draw makes them more likeable? we are difintely on a different planet here.
"They draw greeting cards for family. They draw weapons," he said. "They draw whatever they want. You can't stop a detainee from thinking."
I think the Jihad has already stopped them from thinking, so no worries there.
Barry, the Community Organizer, will bring these loathsome killers to the US where they will have "special " rights.
Coming to a neighborhood near you....
Just to survive you will need to be armed.
As the popular song goes - after he bites his rescuer, the snake says: 'but you knew I was a snake' !
Detention camp staff at the US Navy base in Cuba are already teaching English to the 255 inmates despite fears that it might allow them to eavesdrop on their guards.
Art books are one thing. Even the Game Boys are pointless. But teaching them English? Are the guards themselves suicidal? Let's make it easier for them to acclimate themselves to life in the US before the camp is closed, shall we?
"Guantanamo detainees to receive Game Boys ...."
"Game Boys", are they anything like Dancing Boys, or the Boys-Like-Pearls? If they are, I don't think we should be encouraging that kind of thing.
They're giving them GAME BOYS?? What a horrible violation of their human rights! I demand Gitmo be shut down and these poor tortured souls be moved to minimum security prisons where they will at least get a Nintendo Wii.
"Once they are engaged and busy, they leave the guards alone."
Oh, this is very dangerous thinking! They might play games, and draw purty pictures, but these are criminals, not ten year-olds (mentality aside), and Gitmo is a prison camp, not a daycare center.
This kind of arrogant and ignorant rationale is going to lead to trouble with the inmates, unless it is nipped now!
Only a very small percentage of those detenees is really charged of some thing. That's mean most of them are innocents.
So, true this come 7 years too late, after the horror of injustified tortures.
No one of us would want this to happen to him for sur.
Only those guilty of sometthing, should have been punished.
Those of them who are innocents (and that represent the majority) must now for sur receive help and conpensations. Though their lives will never be the same.
The existance of Gantanamo is one of the reasons Republicans infortunatly lost US elections.
It also credibilised fondamentalists and helped them to recrut alot.
Who can say it was a good exemple of democracy?
Very bad.
"Terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay are to be offered art classes, Game Boys and film nights to distract them from thoughts of global jihad."
Hmm. Lots of video games have storylines that include blowing things up. Not sure how that's really going to do the job of getting their minds off of global jihad.
Of course, on the other hand, we could make them watch Wall-E on movie night ... that should turn them into mindless globs of goop.
Much, much better than the foolish idea of letting them study the Quran there.
Congratulations on constructive thinking.
Guantanamo detainees to receive Game Boys...
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Can we be sure they will be limited to games like "Stuart Little: The Journey Home" or "Barbie's Pet Rescue"? Or will they be honing their skills with "Mortal Kombat 4", "Grand Theft Auto 3", or--my favorite--"Bomberman Quest"?
more:
"They draw greeting cards for family. They draw weapons," he said. "They draw whatever they want. You can't stop a detainee from thinking." Kristin Wilhelm, a lawyer who represents Guantanamo detainees, said the cultural programme was seven years too late.
She said that when one of her clients made greetings cards for people at her law firm, camp censors stamped each of them "secret" and confiscated them.
"It was always my view that the government was afraid to allow the drawings to be released, because it humanised my client," she said.
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Those big meanies! What could possibly be more humanizing than terrorists drawing weaponry?
more:
Geology was chosen as a subject because it is grounded in earth and science issues rather than more sensitive areas such as politics and religion, he said.
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Learning more about the Lapidary sciences might come in handy when it's time to stone little rape victims to death. Remember, the Hadith advises that you do not use stones that are too small, for they will not hurt enough. And do not use stones that are too large, for then it is over too quickly! You can see how useful this course will be.
This is the ultimate absurdity, and comes from years of treating criminals like understimulated Kindergarteners. See, all terrorists need is some good video games and maybe Cable TV (but not just basic Cable--that would violate their human rights!). Then they won't be so bored that they have to sit around plotting Jihad. It's obvious.
I suggest they be given access to just three buttons, for three 'entertainment' options.
1. Infidel kiddie programs of the type that make your teeth hurt just to watch them - e.g. 'Teletubbies', 'Barney the Dinosaur', 'Land Before Time' and 'Veggie Tales'. Or maybe 'Postman Pat'. Or old reruns of 'Lassie'.
2. no tv at all (holding pattern/ blank screen/ silence)
3. Zakaria Botros' 'Life TV', patiently, gently, lovingly and relentlessly taking all Islam's lies, follies and wickednesses to pieces in public.
-sniff sniff-
Why Captain there be TROLLS here!
LOL
لن استسلم
ABS
"Only a very small percentage of those detenees is really charged of some thing. That's mean most of them are innocents.
So, true this come 7 years too late, after the horror of injustified tortures.
No one of us would want this to happen to him for sur.
Only those guilty of sometthing, should have been punished.
Those of them who are innocents (and that represent the majority) must now for sur receive help and conpensations. Though their lives will never be the same.
The existance of Gantanamo is one of the reasons Republicans infortunatly lost US elections.
It also credibilised fondamentalists and helped them to recrut alot.
Who can say it was a good exemple of democracy?
Very bad. "
Aye! There BE trolls here!
Now, Drew, be nice!
Just remember, enemy combatants are our guests, so we must treat them with every kindness and courtesy, and make them feel comfortable and at home; if we have to remake America into an Islamic paradise to do that, so be it! /sarc
Yes, Drew, be nice. "Johanna.Adams" appears to have just recently reached the age of intellectual puberty and is having difficulty assimilating adult realities.
Stick around JW, Johanna. Read and learn.
True; how true.