First you are shackled to a chair. If you move your head, it is shackled also. A tube is forced through your nose down your throat. A liquid supplement is pushed down the tube. If you vomit after the “treatment,” the process is repeated and you are strapped into the chair until the food is digested. This is torture, and we are doing it daily to about 35 inmates at Guantanamo.
In an op-ed column on June 1, Joe Nocera quoted Dr. Stephen Miles, professor of medicine and bioethics at the University of Michigan. “The persistence of the military’s force-feeding policy in the face of international law, and the manner in which it is done, constitutes torture.”
I hope you noticed the “we” in the first paragraph. We live under a democratically-elected government. It is “our” government and “our” military doing this in “our” prison, and I don’t have any idea how to stop it.
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