#100068 by PatrickHenry on 9/12

“We as Americans wouldn’t want our military men and women treated in such fashion.”
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We as American’s allow more than that.  Apparently we practice on America’s most innocent, those children who may need serious help and understanding.  There is a “school” in Canton, Mass. called the Judge Rotenburg Educational Center where the students are shocked for ANY misbehavior.  An excerpt from the article in Mother Jones magazine:

“The Rotenberg Center is the only facility in the country that disciplines students by shocking them, a form of punishment not inflicted on serial killers or child molesters or any of the 2.2 million inmates now incarcerated in U.S. jails and prisons. Over its 36-year history, six children have died in its care, prompting numerous lawsuits and government investigations. Last year, New York state investigators filed a blistering report that made the place sound like a high school version of Abu Ghraib. Yet the program continues to thrive—in large part because no one except desperate parents, and a few state legislators, seems to care about what happens to the hundreds of kids who pass through its gates.”

It goes on:
“Employees shocked him for aggressive behavior, he says, but also for minor misdeeds, like yelling or cursing. Each shock lasts two seconds. “It hurts like hell,” Rob says. (The school’s staff claim it is no more painful than a bee sting; when I tried the shock, it felt like a horde of wasps attacking me all at once. Two seconds never felt so long.) On several occasions, Rob was tied facedown to a four-point restraint board and shocked over and over again by a person he couldn’t see. The constant threat of being zapped did persuade him to act less aggressively, but at a high cost.”

And on:
“In addition, staff members are prohibited from having casual conversations with each other. They cannot, for example, say to a coworker, “Hey, did you see the Red Sox game last night?” “We don’t want them discussing their social life or the ball games in front of the students or while they’re on duty,” Israel says. “So we’ll sometimes actually have one staffer deliberately start a social conversation with another and we’ll see whether the other—as he or she should—will say, ‘I don’t want to discuss that now.’” Monitors watch these setups on the surveillance cameras and punish staffers who take the bait.”

The article in it’s entirety can be found at this link:  http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/school_of_shock.html

We as Americans wouldn’t want our military men and women treated in such fashion.

This administration has squandered any moral high ground this once great nation once had.

America should dismantle and evacuate this base and turn it back over to the Cuban people which it rightfully belongs.

The whole civilized world will take a look at this picture and Bush/Cheney @ Cos. are proud of it !