New Report: Gitmo Inmates Are Violent
With liberals activists always focusing on “blaming America first” for any problems, the ongoing Gitmo story is taking yet another turn by offering another perspective.
AP reports: “Military authorities have previously disclosed some incidents of guard retaliation at Guantanamo Bay, which resulted in mostly minor disciplinary proceedings. What emerges from 278 pages of documents obtained by The Associated Press is the degree of defiance by the terrorism suspects at Guantanamo.”
Define defiance? Hitting, kicking, spitting, throwing chairs, throwing punches, and throwing urine. Sounds like violent misbehavior, inviting of more serious punishment.
Unfortunately, the criminals have all the rights. Case in point:
“Some prisoners at the U.S. base in eastern Cuba have gone on the attack, as in April 2003 when a detainee got out of his cell during a search for contraband food and knocked out a guard’s tooth with a punch to the mouth and bit him before he was subdued by MPs. One soldier delivered two blows to the inmate’s head with a handheld radio, the documents show.“Several guards were trying to hold down the detainee who was putting up heavy resistance,” recounted a translator who saw the incident. “The detainee was covered in blood as were some of the guards.”
The soldier who struck the inmate, and was dropped in rank to private first class as a result, described it as a close call. “The detainee was fighting as if he really wanted to hurt us. … We all saved each other’s lives in my opinion,” he wrote.
What’s a soldier’s opinion worth in this politicized environment?
We agree with Dr. Rusty Shackleford, who writes:
“The press would have you believe that the Gitmo prisoners are docile and subservient victims being horribly brutalized by sadistic American soldiers. Nothing could be further from the truth.Think about it, had these been American POWs in WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam etc, they would have been shot or hanged. What’s amazing and the real story here is the amount of restraint our boys have shown
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No doubt about it.