Things That Are Not OK: Forcing Prisoners to Inhale Their Own Vomit

I’ll be brief: You do not treat living things this way, let alone human beings, period. This country can lay no claim to conscience, nor rule of law, if those responsible for these atrocities are never held accountable (and treated humanely).

Remember that video wherein Christopher Hitchens, who had opined that waterboarding wasn’t torture, could only stand up to about four seconds of it? That was the pussy version. In the Gitmo-type experience, they keep you awake for a week, put you on a liquid diet for when you start breathing in your own vomit, and use saline instead of water so they can fill you full of an amount of water that would otherwise ruin your bloodstream, and physicians of the hypocritical-oath variety take notes so that you’ll edge closer to death next time. One detail not mentioned in this article: one lucky detainee was treated to 183 rides on the rack, all without a single call to a lawyer.

Should you happen to find yourself in a room with Attorney General Eric Holder, get that man a drink. Might I recommend a nice, nutritious can of Ensure Plus?