{"id":185900,"date":"2014-07-18T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/18\/they-will-destroy-this-man\/"},"modified":"2014-07-18T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T03:11:00","slug":"they-will-destroy-this-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/18\/they-will-destroy-this-man\/","title":{"rendered":"They Will Destroy this Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>Miami Herald<\/i> has discovered that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2014\/07\/15\/4237720\/navy-nurse-refuses-to-force-feed.html\">Navy nurse has refused to force feed the Guantanamo detainees<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In the first known rebellion against Guant\u00e1namo\u2019s force-feeding policy, a Navy medical officer recently refused to continue managing tube-feedings of prison hunger strikers and was reassigned to \u201calternative duties.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">A prison camp spokesman, Navy Capt. Tom Gresback, would not provide precise details but said Monday night that the episode had \u201cno impact to medical support operations at the base.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThere was a recent instance of a medical provider not willing to carry out the enteral feeding of a detainee,\u201d he said in an email. \u201cThe matter is in the hands of the individual\u2019s leadership.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Word of the refusal reached the outside world last week in a call from prisoner Abu Wael Dhiab to attorney Cori Crider of the London-based legal defense group Reprieve. Dhiab, a hunger striker, described how a nurse in the Navy medical corps abruptly refused to \u201cforce-feed us\u201d sometime before the Fourth of July <b>\u2014 and disappeared from detention center duty<\/b>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, not only is this guy&#8217;s career over, you can be sure that the his command, and perhaps JAG Corps will go after him like the US Attorney went after Aaron Swartz, notwithstanding the declarations to the contrary made later in the article.<\/p>\n<p>Guantanamo is an ethical black hole, our own little Abu Ghraib, our own little Gulag, and under those circumstances, they cannot allow people to assert a conscience objection, because would short circuit the cognitive dissonance that allows the facility to function..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Herald has discovered that a Navy nurse has refused to force feed the Guantanamo detainees: In the first known rebellion against Guant\u00e1namo\u2019s force-feeding policy, a Navy medical officer recently refused to continue managing tube-feedings of prison hunger strikers and was reassigned to \u201calternative duties.\u201d A prison camp spokesman, Navy Capt. Tom Gresback, would &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,969,1051,1006,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-military","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}