by anonymous
(lifted from a comment)
Of course while getting concerned about one fellow human’s treatment by the spin-off from the empire juggernaut, much worse is happening
elsewhere and not just Ramadi.
Three humans succeeded in killing themselves at Guantanamo Bay last
night, which should be the cause of grief, yet in the irony and
inversion of values that war can incite, their deaths may well be
regarded as a triumph. The victory of the individual over the faceless,
unfeeling empire.
That this could be regarded as a victory, is certainly a concern of the US military establishment here:
The suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to acts of war, the US military says.
The camp commander said the two Saudis and a Yemeni were "committed"
and had killed themselves in "an act of asymmetric warfare waged
against us".
How in hell’s name could the suicide of 3 men be regarded by anyone,
much less the willing agents of that empire, as a victory over empire?
The reason is as mundane as it is banal.
The US military hierachy, as obsessed with appearances as any
bourgois housefrau had decided that any deaths at Guantanamo Bay may be
perceived by the media as a reflection of the inhumane and brutal
conditions these men, who have been imprisoned without trial for many
years, have had to endure. One of the most inhumane and crushingly
brutal facts of life about Guantanamo Bay was that no one was allowed
to die there, no matter how sick they were.
Of course no miracle cures were handed out but if anyone was
terminally ill they were quickly moved away from surroundings which
however brutal, at least they were familiar with, and away fom fellow
inmates who had endured the privations with them.
Up until last night not one of the more than 2000 inmates who had been
through Guantanamo Bay, men who had been captured while wounded on the
battlefield, tortured by their initial captors, then rendered to
torture specialist all over the world, only to be shunted off to
Guantanamo Bay to be tortured abused, ridiculed and humiliated had been
allowed the release that they felt only death could bring.
Last night in the worst possible way three humans found release and through that victory.
What does that tell us about their captors?
