Phil_F_NM
Camera hacker
Guantanamo Bay is going to get that way (concentration camp).
30,000 individuals plus all the staffing (from the Navy) is going to get ugly. We have a new generation of military members, most of whom weren't born when the Abu Graib prison fiasco occurred. That was a smaller facility, with more military presence. There is NOTHING good which can come of this. Many people in one place is going to result in sickness, violence, and death, make no mistake about it. This isn't a supermax prison, and it isn't the prison which has detained 9/11 conspirators for twenty years. It is just a series of old green tents which will probably house 8 prisoners, at first, then due to space, materials, and staffing, will become rapidly overcrowded. Down in Cuba as well. I think this will eventually amount to torture and the coward at the top will be wholly culpable.
Check out Terry Gross' "Fresh Air" podcast from last week with NY Times correspondent, Dexter Filkins, it's awesome for more on the ground perspective and chilling in the assessment that the US military is simply not ready. I met Dexter at Camp Fallujah, in the civilian press area, when I was assigned to be the "minder" of Jackie Spinner when she was at the Washington Post, if I recall correctly. Dexter had just come off a convoy which had been hit by an IED and one of the photographers had her life saved by her camera. I kept up with him just a bit over the years, but really more so with Ashley Gilbertson, the photographer who went into Fallujah with Dexter, during the second siege. They were with 1/8 Marines and witnessed the worst of it. I trust Dexter's opinion and it's a bit calming (if you have the opportunity to listen to his assessment on the notion of US taking over Gaza). That said the unpredictability of Orange Julius is something that no one can really accurately assess.
Phil
30,000 individuals plus all the staffing (from the Navy) is going to get ugly. We have a new generation of military members, most of whom weren't born when the Abu Graib prison fiasco occurred. That was a smaller facility, with more military presence. There is NOTHING good which can come of this. Many people in one place is going to result in sickness, violence, and death, make no mistake about it. This isn't a supermax prison, and it isn't the prison which has detained 9/11 conspirators for twenty years. It is just a series of old green tents which will probably house 8 prisoners, at first, then due to space, materials, and staffing, will become rapidly overcrowded. Down in Cuba as well. I think this will eventually amount to torture and the coward at the top will be wholly culpable.
Check out Terry Gross' "Fresh Air" podcast from last week with NY Times correspondent, Dexter Filkins, it's awesome for more on the ground perspective and chilling in the assessment that the US military is simply not ready. I met Dexter at Camp Fallujah, in the civilian press area, when I was assigned to be the "minder" of Jackie Spinner when she was at the Washington Post, if I recall correctly. Dexter had just come off a convoy which had been hit by an IED and one of the photographers had her life saved by her camera. I kept up with him just a bit over the years, but really more so with Ashley Gilbertson, the photographer who went into Fallujah with Dexter, during the second siege. They were with 1/8 Marines and witnessed the worst of it. I trust Dexter's opinion and it's a bit calming (if you have the opportunity to listen to his assessment on the notion of US taking over Gaza). That said the unpredictability of Orange Julius is something that no one can really accurately assess.
Phil
