U.S. tube-feeding hunger strikers

[CHIMO]

London — The military is tube-feeding more than a dozen of the 89 terror suspects on hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, a U.S. military spokesman said Friday.

Some of the 89 striking detainees at Guantanamo have not eaten for a month, Maj. Jeff Weir, a spokesman for Guantanamo's detention mission, told British Broadcasting Corp. radio and television.

“We are not going to allow the detainees to deteriorate to a state where it is going to physically threaten them health wise,” Maj. Weir told the BBC.

“Basically, if you stop eating and wait several weeks or months, it is a slow form of suicide. No detention facility in the world will deliberately let their people commit suicide, so we can't let that happen,” Maj. Weir said.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050909.whungerstrike0909/BNStory/International/

[darkism]

1. Wait for it...wait for it...

How soon until the right-wingers start demanding that they pull the tubes?

Hypocrites.

[goddess40]

2. the movie "Iron Jawed Angels" shows our govt force feeding women

If you haven't seen the movie it is worth renting. Oscar-winner Hilary Swank stars in a fresh and contemporary look at a pivotal event in American history, telling the true story of how a pair of defiant and brilliant young activists took the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

I don't think the methods have changed, we are a country of barbarians.

Our lovely government has a history of being not so nice and then covering it up.

I understand that they still have children, about 20, locked up in solitary.

[havocmom]

3. Force feeding hunger strikers. Doing everything to thwart relief workers

in NOLA from getting food and water for several days to survivors who followed instructions and went to the Superdome & Convention Center... BUSHCO marches on in the battle against sanity and empathy.

[movonne]

4. Those repugs have a thing for feeding tubes...