what happened to us?

three men hung themselves at gitmo...well, that is what the folks running the place are telling us. a not-so-small bit of me doesn't by it...not after reports of others finding interrogation techniques leading to death. and if i am questioning this, i can only imagine what the rest of the world is thinking. yea...suicide...right...

to say prison is a depressing place is a vast understatement. although i have never been locked up in one...visiting them on a regular basis is all that is necessary to convince me that being locked up in one would drive me out of my mind. on top of this, we have allowed an attitude to fester which treats prisoners as subhuman...in our own prisons. add to that a feeling that those being held are terrorist monsters who want to murder your children and dance on their graves, and you have the recipe for disaster. then give a wink and a nod to torture from the highest levels (i mean, seriously guys...at least lie about it like every other president did...you don't seem to have issues with fudging the truth here and there) and these places must be run in such a manner to drive any man to despair.

so when three men that are locked up in a miserable place without contact with the outside world in any way other than the occasional "visit" from their friendly water-board provider kill themselves...it would make sense to recognize it as an act of desparation seeing as how they are being held without trial, indefinitely, and without reason (i do not buy for a second these are the "bad" guys...the ones we are really worried about never make it to gitmo...although it does serve as a nice distraction). but apparently not...

admiral harry harris described the suicides to reporters in this appalling way..."they have no regard for human life, neither ours nor their own. i believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetric warfare against us." wow. what do you say to that? it's bad enough we except thousands upon thousands of civilian deaths without so much as an afterthought...but now suicide by hanging, when locked up without hope, and without injuring anyone else...is an attack against america. what in god's name were you thinking admiral? is this an attempt to convince al queda to start mass hangings of themselves as part of the war?

where has our humanity gone?