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HEAVY METAL FEEDBACK IN THE LAND OF THE FREE
Contributed by
steeleyes
on
Friday, 22nd July 2005 @ 08:37:28 AM in AEST
Topic:
AmericanTragedy
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They keep saying 'We’re clean!'
'We don’t treat ‘em mean'
'Look, come visit us and see…'
“Quick, clear the debris!”
They keep saying it’s so pretty
When in fact it’s awful ******
The PR guys work overtime
To erase the truth’s sad slime
'It's a holiday camp in the sun'
'Where WE don’t hurt anyone'
'Just they can never leave'
“What US try to deceive?!”
“Don’t you know we’re all saints!”
It’s just the way the media paints!
They don’t speak the truth at all
“Look, see, when you come to call…”
'No torture here, no late night noise'
'Just us freedom-lovin’ girls and boys'
Playin’ a little musak at 100 Db
Heavy metal feedback in the Land of the “Free”
O//
Guantanamo detainees refuse food
BBC - Friday, 22 July, 2005, 00:49 GMT 01:49 UK
Fifty-two detainees at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are staging a hunger strike in protest at their detention and treatment.
So far, the men have refused nine consecutive meals over three days, the US military said in a statement.
The detainees are being monitored by medical professionals and their vital signs are being checked daily.
More than 500 inmates are currently being held at Guantanamo. Only four have been charged.
'Inhumane conditions'
'Indications are that this is a temporary effort by some detainees to protest their continued detention,' the statement said.
On Wednesday, an Afghan man released from the camp after three years said that more than 100 prisoners had been on hunger strike for two weeks.
The former Taleban soldier said the protest was aimed at highlighting 'inhuman' conditions at the camp.
However, a lawyer who represents a number of detainees held in Guantanamo Bay told BBC Pentagon correspondent Adam Brookes that protests in the prison facilities were already under way by late June.
The lawyer said that they had been prompted by detainees' anger over the quality of their drinking water.
He said the protests had then expanded in scope and detainees had begun citing their indefinite detention and inhumane conditions as reasons for the protest.
The military said the hunger strikers were being monitored by medical staff and were being admitted to hospital where clinically indicated.
Some were receiving liquids orally and intravenously and all were being offered food and water.
A military spokesman was unable to say whether any of the treatment was being administered by force.
International Committee of the Red Cross representatives are travelling to the Guantanamo Bay prison on Sunday and will be looking into the situation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4704871.stm
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Re: HEAVY METAL FEEDBACK IN THE LAND OF THE FREE
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by LevyMetal on
Friday, 22nd July 2005 @ 11:10:19 AM AEST
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| Wow this was really strong and hit a nerve. I liked how you expressed your view in a raw manor. Colorful. well done! |
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Re: HEAVY METAL FEEDBACK IN THE LAND OF THE FREE
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by vibes2go on
Friday, 22nd July 2005 @ 07:16:01 PM AEST
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| you're so good at this ... ya know i read where because of " pork barelling ... the soldiers in Bagdhad don't have armourd (sp) vehicles .. or enough bullets .. or vests.. why don't you write about that.. I'm arfaid for Arsenic .. he's over there.. this *****y govrnment doesn't care .. they just now gave him a guard.. god I hate it.. meanwhile Bush is raking in the $$$$ on his oil profits....argh!!!!!! |
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Re: HEAVY METAL FEEDBACK IN THE LAND OF THE FREE
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by bobotheclown on
Monday, 25th July 2005 @ 01:16:47 AM AEST
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Good poem... I find it amazing how the US
government continaully lies about
Guantanamo when all the evidence points
the finger directly at the US government about
the terrible conditions. Good write never stop
writin.
Bobo (Joel) |
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