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Wikileaks Releases Sensitive Guantanamo Manual
James Hardine writes "Wired is reporting that a never-before-seen military manual detailing the day-to-day operations of the U.S. military's Guantánamo Bay detention facility has been leaked to the web, via the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks.org, affording a rare inside glimpse into the institution where the United States has imprisoned hundreds of suspected terrorists since 2002. The 238-page document, "Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures," is dated March 28, 2003. The disclosure highlights the internet's usefulness to whistle-blowers in anonymously propagating documents the government and others would rather conceal. The Pentagon has been resisting — since October 2003 — a Freedom of Information Act request from the American Civil Liberties Union seeking the very same document. Anonymous open-government activists created Wikileaks in January, hoping to turn it into a clearinghouse for such disclosures. The site uses a Wikipedia-like system to enlist the public in authenticating and analyzing the documents it publishes. The Camp Delta document includes schematics of the camp, detailed checklists of what "comfort items" such as extra toilet paper can be given to detainees as rewards, six pages of instructions on how to process new detainees, instructions on how to psychologically manipulate prisoners, and rules for dealing with hunger strikes."
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And YOU have left out a ton of others. My personal favorites are
+ Finally giving the UN's 1441 "serious consequences" Bark a little bit of Bite.
+ Libya sees the business end of the "Big Stick", and decides to give up it's WMD without a single foreign military boot on their soil.
It is depressing how many seem to want jump on the "US is the root of all evil" bandwagon. Look at the geopolitical "big picture". You think Iran really wants a piece of this? How important is a non-nuclear Iran to you? Sure US foreign policy is not error-free, but at least they are making an effort, and from my POV having a lot more success than failure.
Also interesting how no comments on this article make any reference whatsoever to TFA.
Anyway, I give this whole article "-1 Offtopic".
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That I didn't really mean that was obvious to anybody that has been around /. for more then two weeks. Will you next call me a communist if I make a "In Soviet Russia...." joke?
but don't belittle others for your inability to clearly communicateHow about his inability to clearly read all the replies to his post (not just mine) pointing out where the line came from?
Not assuming everyone onGive me a fucking break. Assuming that somebody reading Slashdot is familiar with a well known Slashdot pun does not imply a lack of communication skills on my part. He made the leap of faith to assume that I was condoning prison rape, based on my use of a well known part of /. culture. When I corrected that leap of faith, he responded with yet more whining about how "prison rape is never justified", even though I specifically said that I don't condone it.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
People often mention 'federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison' on Slashdot. People very rarely link to the IMDB quotes page for 'Office Space' while doing so. So it's quite possible to recognise it as a piece of /. culture while not realising that it's a totally offtopic reference to a movie that has nothing whatever to do with leaked military documents.
It was years before I happened to watch that movie and found out where the line came from; up to that point, I'd thought it just a nasty little meme in extremely poor taste, circulated by juvenile geeks who liked to gloat over the idea of someone else getting forcibly sodomised in prison. Certainly I can imagine how seeing frequent nasty little references to prison rape throughout Slashdot would anger anyone with a sense of justice and a less than encyclopaedic knowledge of geek movie culture.
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Alright, AC, I'll make one more attempt at rationally explaining myself. Why I'm wasting my time is anyone's guess.
I make an off-handed remark using a joke that is well known on /. The GP posts a reply saying "I'm sorry, but *no one* deserves to be raped".
I make a reply pointing out the reference and agreeing with the GP by saying I don't condone prison rape. No where in that reply was I remotely insulting to the GP.
Then the GP posts another reply saying "How can the content of that movie possibly justify the idea of rape as punishment", thus completely missing the point and continuing with his off-topic whining (off-topic as far as the thread goes) about prison rape.
I don't think I owe anybody an apology for using a well known piece of Slashdot culture to illustrate my original point. I also don't think I owe anybody an apology for being somewhat annoyed with people that ignore the explanation of that culture and attempt to paint me as being pro-rape. And if either one of you finds the concept of prison rape so horrific that you allow yourself to be bothered by a completely unrelated joke from a movie then perhaps you should start doing something more productive towards solving the problem then engaging in a stupid flamewar about it on /.
It's this type of political correctness that prevents real debate. "OMG, a joke about prison rape, that's not funny!"
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Man, do /. users ever feel a slightly sickly sense of shame? The FIRST comment -- pointing out that there has been a number of pro-American leaders elected lately -- was insightful. And it gets modded "troll."
Why don't I ever see such blatant abuses when I am meta-moderating?
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Ditto. The first time I saw Office Space was less then seven months ago.
p to that point, I'd thought it just a nasty little meme in extremely poor taste, circulated by juvenile geeks who liked to gloat over the idea of someone else getting forcibly sodomised in prisonEven if it was just a nasty little meme in poor taste, it's still a part of /. culture, for better or worse, and I think I have the right to become somewhat annoyed when people assume that I'm "pro-rape" because I happened to use it.
It's that type of political correctness that I find offensive. Perhaps I'm the rarity in that I don't offend -- tell me a racist joke and you have a halfway decent chance of making me laugh. Does that make me a racist? Ever hear about Black comedy (aka: dark humor)?
Hell, I'm surprised that nobody even latched onto the fact that I called her a "cunt" to try and call me a sexist. Hell, at least that would be remotely justified. Instead I've gotten a fair amount of grief for using a comment that appears quite often on /.
Certainly I can imagine how seeing frequent nasty little references to prison rape throughout Slashdot would anger anyone with a sense of justice and a less than encyclopaedic knowledge of geek movie culture.I don't think it takes "encyclopedic knowledge of geek movie culture" to realize that I was using a standard issue /. joke. If you accept the fact that it's a standard joke around here (even if it's one that you find offensive) then you should also be willing to accept the fact that I wasn't condoning prison rape.
Does prison rape or racism bother me? Hell yes they do. Does that mean I can't laugh at a good joke using either one of those subjects? Nope. People need to grow a thick skin and stop allowing themselves to be offended by such trivial nonsense.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Well, I suppose the only good thing that's come out of this is that now 2 more liberals have me on their foes list. :)
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