Mulling over the leaked Camp Delta Standard Operation Procedures (pdf, protection removed, 4.2mb) for Guantanamo one wonders, what the people who have written it think about themselves and others.
It is banality of evil documented on 250 or so pages. Consider the bureaucracy of the system that is ouzing from each page:
Chapter 8 – Detainee Behavioral Management
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8-8. GTMO Form 508-1a. The GTMO Form 508-1 is used to determine which rewards the detainee will lose or gain.
b. Process for issuing a GTMO Form 508-1 for discipline:
(1) Details about incident phoned to DOC to begin processing a DD Form 508.
(2) DA Form(s) 2823 filled out by personnel witnessing the incident, detailing the incident.
(3) PL determines discipline based on matrix and previous record of offenses by detainee, then prepares GTMO Form 508-1 for on-duty CO’s review. The form must include a brief description of the offense, the number of times the detainee has committed offenses, and the discipline to be imposed.
(4) If the on-duty CO concurs, the discipline is entered on the DD Form 508 from the GTMO Form 508-1.
(5) After all required forms are complete, the onduty CO signs the DD Form 508 as the Confinement Officer and forwards to JDOG S3 for approval. Upon approval, the offense is entered into the discipline log for the detainee.
(6) A copy of the GTMO Form 508-1 is sent to the block to be briefed to the detainee by the Block NCO, SOG, or PL. The copy will be retained with the detainee’s records on the block.
(7) All original forms will be forwarded to Detention Services Branch at the end of shift.c. Process for issuing a GTMO Form 508-1 for
reward:
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Gitmo prisoners receive ‘rewards’ …
In May 1943, after personal suggestion from Heinrich Himmler, the SS issued the "Dienstvorschrift für die Gewährung von Vergünstigungen an Häftlinge", the "Service Regulation for Permissioning Privileges to Prisoners". Under the detailed regulation, concentration camp inmates who were ‘good workers’ could be ‘rewarded’. Possible rewards were allowance to wear a military haircut (instead of being kept bald), cigarettes, stuff from the cantine or a visit to the camp brothel.
As far as we can tell, Gitmo does not have a regulated camp brothel. But that may just be for lack of female prisoners who could be ‘disciplined’ by getting raped there. It is certainly not for lack of will to write the regulating Standard Operation Procedures of such.
‘Rewards’ in Gitmo are a bigger piece of soap, the privilege to get toilet paper as required, toothpaste on Sundays or being allowed to keep a styrofoam cup in the cell. All ‘reward’ items can of course also be again confiscated to ‘discipline’ the prisoner.
8-10. Confiscation of Items
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k. Items
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(12) Styrofoam Cups. If the cup has writing on it, confiscate, complete a DA 4137, and give to the Evidence Custodian. If the cup is damaged or destroyed, the detainee will be disciplined for destruction of government property. Also, consult the damaged property matrix to determine the length of time the detainee loses the Styrofoam cup. If the detainee has lost his cup due to discipline, he will receive a cup with his meal but must return it at the completion of the meal. Due to supply issues, different size cups may be used at anytime. All cups are considered equal regardless of size.
What do the authors, who considered and wrote about the equality of styrofoam cups, think about the equality of men?