The New York Times' Editorial Staff: Complete and Pathological Dissociation From Reality

The Deaths at Gitmo

New York Times
Editorial

June 12, 2006

The news that three inmates at Guantánamo Bay hanged themselves should not have surprised anyone who has paid the slightest attention to the twisted history of the camp that President Bush built for selected prisoners from Afghanistan and antiterrorist operations. It was the inevitable result of creating a netherworld of despair beyond the laws of civilized nations, where men were to be held without any hope of decent treatment, impartial justice or, in so many cases, even eventual release.

It is a place where secret tribunals sat in judgment of men whose identities they barely knew and who were not permitted to see the evidence against them. Inmates were abused, humiliated, tormented and sometimes tortured. Some surely are very dangerous men, committed to a life of terrorism and deserving of harsh justice. But only 10 of the roughly 465 men at the camp have been charged with crimes. The others, according to senior officers who served there, were foot soldiers of the Taliban or men who just happened to live in a country invaded by the United States after the 9/11 attacks.

Inmates at Guantánamo Bay have tried seeking help from the American courts, and one case has reached the Supreme Court. But most of these appeals were thwarted by claims of national security. Any new appeals will fall under a shocking new law that deprives the inmates of the centuries-old right to challenge their imprisonment. Government lawyers have even tried to use that law retroactively, to dismiss all pending appeals.

Guantánamo Bay and other American detention centers have sparked outrage around the world — deeply harming America's image as the defender of humanity against just these sorts of abuses. Last month a United Nations panel called for the prisons to be shut down. But the administration's response to all of this has been defiance.

When dozens of inmates went on hunger strikes last year, the authorities strapped them into metal "restraint chairs" and ordered doctors to force-feed them. Military officials said they did this only to inmates on the brink of death, but The Times has reported that the restraint chair was used on all hunger strikers, regardless of their condition.

The New York Times has long been known as the bastion of the anti-American Left, but in today's editorial, they have joined the tin-hat brigade and exposed themselves as the Al Jazeerah of the Western Hemisphere. They have taken an indefensible position in support of the hundreds of terrorists detained at Guantanamo.

Formerly known referred to as "All the News Fit to Print," thiee motto now proves to be "All the Lies Fit to Print." Ever willing to print stories which later prove to be false, the Times continues to vie with the Washington Post for the title of most irrelevent publication in America. Their continually dwindling readership and repeated shortfalls and lay-offs speak to that. No discerning person can possibly take the New York Times as a serious news source any longer.

The New York Times has deteriorated from "The Gray Lady," to the "Old Gray Whore;" a mere shodow of its former self. They continually insult the intelligence of the reader now and the editorial staff has demonstrated their complete alienation from the world of what is real. They are now a parody in search of an audience.

The following quote demonstrates how low they have fallen:

Admiral Harris's response was as appalling as the suicides. "I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us," he said. The inmates, he said, "have no regard for life, neither ours nor their own."

These comments reveal a profound disassociation from humanity.

The fact that they are incapable of seeing the truth in Admiral Harris' statement is illustrative of just how far down the road to delusion these inbred deviants have traveled.

Anyone and I mean anyone, be they politician or voter, who gives any credence to this rag deserves nothing but contempt and scorn. They are truly laughable.

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