Former Army Lawyer: Some Prisoners Prefer GITMO Living Over Going Home
- Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:52am by
Buck Sexton
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The Arabic Harry Potter.
Perhaps GITMO gets a bad rap. Apparently, some detainees would rather stay than return to their home countries. For these sworn enemies of the Unites States, the cuisine and recreation of the Guantanamo Bay-based detention facility are among the selling points.
Kyndra Rotunda, formerly of the Army‘s Judge Advocate General’s Office, shared this insight with CNS News. The author of “Honor Bound: Inside the Guantanamo Trials,” Rotunda is currently a civilian teaching international law.
Rotunda discussed some other perks afforded the prisoners. For example, the library has 5,000 titles for them to peruse, including the Harry Potter book series (translated into Arabic of course); prisoners can visit the computer lab if the mood strikes them; during the many hours they spend each day outside their housing bays, detainees have their choice of sports footwear. And the list goes on and on.
DOD has even flown in special fruits and nuts so that detainees can observe Ramadan. But our military drew the line at sacrificing a goat.
But, don’t tell any of this to the activists who like to protest outside the White House:
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Comments (57)
UpstateNYConservative
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:55amWe wouldn’t be discussing this if we simply shot them on the battlefield and were done with them.
Report Post »Mr. Oshawott
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:46amI’m having a feeling that something is very wrong with Guantanamo Bay if those prisoners prefer staying there than going home to where they came from. Why must prisons serve as another makeshift home? I thought the idea of finding yourself sitting in prison would deter people from committing a crime of any sort?
Report Post »mcgrawactor1
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:37amI say we make them work for their comfy stay. They are prisoners, after all! Every state needs license plates, right??
Report Post »USMarine0311
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:33amLOL thats about right. Us horribe Americans treat people so bad they won’t even leave our prisons. That should tell you something in how we need to change our current prision affairs. Like instead of providing them a TV make them work to pay for their food, instead of letting them lift weights make them work for their shelter and instead of an education make them work for us having to keep gaurds to keep them in line. I mean we have to do it in the real world (we pay for food, shelter andcops) why shouldn’t they have to as well.
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:30amThat’s sad, these guys are more free in our prisons than in their villages. Anyone else want to tell me that the vision of America is a thing of the past?
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:24amNo s***!
Most prisoners in plain ole prisons prefer life there than on the outside! DUH…………. free ride! Why not?
I think we should make prisons like they used to be, so folks don’t want to go there.
NO:
tvs
airconditioning or heating
no cellphones
no computers
no movies
no great exercise equipment
YES, there will be hard labor and you work for free, prisoners to pay back the state or nation you have stolen from and who is currently providing you a place to sleep and feeding you.
YES, to mail call once a week.
PRISON! Anybody “get it”?
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:21amThis is one place where we can cut the budget. Get rid of their goodies and give them bread and water. Do you think for 1 minute they would treat us like this? Heck no, they would cut our heads off and be done with us.
Report Post »rambosharley
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:15amI’m laughing to hard to comment….hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhaahahhahahahahahaahahahahhahahahahaahaha
Report Post »trooper
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:10amI bet they all get layed on a regular bacis, you know how the Caribean brings on those inner urges.
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:09amCan I go to Gitmo, I need a vacation!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:53amNeeds to change but so does our prison system. When prison is a comfort there is something really wrong.
Report Post »KoolCaptain
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:47amSorry to go all geek mode, but in Star Trek NG they captured a Borg, Hugh, made him a friend, then released him back to the Borg, and eventually freedom infected the collective. Just geek TV, but the principal could have some promise. It‘s the same concept for why Arab nations can’t stand to see peaceful Palastinians treated well by Isreal, why they first bombed libraries in early Israel. They can’t let liberty and capitalism infect their kingdoms.
Report Post »Pydge
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 12:28pm@KOOLCAPTAIN
Report Post »Wow! Terrific commentary—all true. Palestinians by the way are on a public dole/entitlement in Israel that would make an ADC mother here VERY envious.
drphil69
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 12:33pmWhich is why they don’t want to go home… they will be immediately interogated and then disposed of as they are too dangerous, with all those new fangled ideas about freedom.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 2:20pmThe palestinians are occupied and israel is mandated to give back land illigally taken in 67.israel uses collective punishment against that giant prison[hogging water,electricity, and destroying their native agricultural pratices[yes they were good cultivators of their lands].to give to settlers who ethnically cleans the arabs[ that a jew from bklyn can evict a native arab to make room for that american,is racist ethnic cleansing].They resist and are punished by the cruel tyranical israeli state.And free all illigally seized prisoners in guantanamo[Try americans for torture and war crimes and crimes against humanity for these invasions and abductions and tortures of civilians ..People who in their homelands are invaded have the right to resist.free for all american held prisoners .try the criminal thrug-the americans.!
Report Post »riverat1970
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:39amThey also are probably enjoying the comfort of air conditioning. i would’nt want to leave either.
Report Post »cece959
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:39amOf COURSE they prefer Gitmo…3 hots and a cot, they get to perform their daily satanic ritual of facing Mecca and praying to a pedophile without interruption, they have access to games, books, tv, time for exercising…compared to where they came from, they’re living the good life. I’ve said it before…liberals just don’t get it.
Report Post »Spikey_Dude
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:29amJoe Arpaio we need you buddy!
Report Post »Cygnus X1
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:26amNow THERE’S a shocker.
Who’d have guessed?
Report Post »michaelmoron
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:16amTwo thoughts… One is they have become “Americanized” This is funny !!!! The other thought is “Don’t throw me in the Brier patch”.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:06amWhen I was stationed in Bermuda in the Navy, they had a prison (Casemates) that served only bread and water to the inmates. If they wanted real food, they had to have a friend/family member bring it. They also slept on a thin mattress laid on a stone slab and only got out for about 15 minutes to the exercise yard. Of course this was the early 80′s, things may have changed. We should consider that for our prisoners. No more club fed.
Report Post »jeffyfreezone
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:01amI hope those delusional protesters were sweating buckshot under those hoods. Hoods are appropriate for antiAmerican mobs like them and the Klan.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:59amPlus the weather must be amazing year around. They’d be nuts to want to go back to their freezing mountains and deserts. These guys have it better than I do in Obama’s America.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:58amOnce you get your membership card to Club Gitmo, it’s hard to go home.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:58amBack to solitary confinement with them.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:57amYea, compared to a mud hut or a home that’s been blown to bits, I guess a cell in beautiful Gitmo with 3 squares a day isn’t so bad.
Report Post »Karl Magnus
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:56amIt sounds like most every other Federal Prison …
Many affectionately known as “Club Fed”.
Tennis anyone? Or Tennyson?
~(Ä)~
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:56amto a camel and a mud house?
Nah!
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 8:12amLet’s turn them into paparazzi! What a joke!
Report Post »GREENDOG
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:25amRight!
Report Post »obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:45amIf Obama is reelected we all are going to prefer Gitmo to our homes.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 11:19amJune Casualties of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom (cont.)
Marine Cpl. Matthew T. Richard 21, Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas S. O’Brien 21, Army Pfc. Matthew J. England 22, Marine Cpl. William J. Woitowicz 23, Marine Sgt. Joseph M. Garrison 27, Army Spc. Emilio J. Campo 20, Army Spc. Michael B. Cook Jr. 27, Army Spc. Robert P. Hartwick 20, Army Spc. Christopher B. Fishbeck 24, Army Pfc. Michael C. Olivieri 26, Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Kenneth R. White 35, Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Bradley J. Gaudet 31, Army Sgt. Christopher R. Bell 21, Army Sgt. Joshua D. Powell 28, Army Spc. Devin A. Snyder 20, Army Pfc. Robert L. Voakes Jr. 21, Marine Cpl. Paul W. Zanowick II 23, Army Sgt. Jeffrey C.S. Sherer 29.
I believe the count is at “60”!
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 10:46amIs “sacrificing” the goat what they are calling it now? Me thinks they had something else in mind.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 11:05amSend BO there. He would fit right in>
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 11:17amJune Casualties of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom:
Marine Lance Cpl. John F. Farias 20, Marine Lance Cpl. Mark R. Goyet 22, Army Staff Sgt. Donald V. Stacy 23, Marine Cpl. Michael C. Nolen22, Army Pfc. Dylan J. Johnson 20, Marine Gunnery Sgt. Ralph E. Pate Jr. 29, Air Force Tech. Sgt. Daniel L. Douville 33, Army Spc. Matthew R. Gallagher 22, Army Spc. Kevin J. Hilaman 28, Army Staff Sgt. Russell J. Proctor 25, Marine Sgt. Marlon E. Myrie 25, Army 1st Lt. Dimitri A. Del Castillo 24, Army Spc. Nicholas P. Bernier 21, Army Staff Sgt. Nigel D. Kelly 26, Army Spc. Nicholas C. D. Hensley 28, Marine Cpl. Gurpreet Singh 21, Army Spc. Levi E. Nuncio 24, Marine Cpl. Gurpreet Singh 21, Marine Lance Cpl. Jared C. Verbeek 22, Army Pfc. Gustavo A. Rios-Ordonez 25, Army Sgt. James W. Harvey II 23, Army Pfc. Joshua L. Jetton 21, Marine Pfc. Josue Ibarra 21, Army Pfc. Brian J. Backus 21, Army Sgt. 1st Class Alvin A. Boatwright 33, Army Sgt. Edward F. Dixon III 37, Army Staff Sgt. Alan L. Snyder 28, Army Spc. Tyler R. Kreinz 21, Army Spc. Scott D. Smith 36, Marine Sgt. Mark A. Bradley 25, Army Spc. Marcos A. Cintron 32, Army Pvt. Ryan L. Larson 19, Army Staff Sgt. Jeremy A. Katzenberger 26, Army Pfc. Eric D. Soufrine 20, Army Staff Sgt. Nicholas P. Bellard 26, Army Sgt. Glenn Sewell 23, Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua B. McDaniels 21, Marine Lance Cpl. Sean M. N. O’Connor 22, Army Capt. Michael W. Newton 30, Marine Lance Cpl. Jason D. Hill 20…(cont.)
Report Post »avenger
Posted on July 2, 2011 at 7:22pmWOW ! what a not surprise ! why would anyone want to go back to a shethole…
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