...made a video demonstrating what it's like to be force fed. He is an actor as well as an activist so he could be exaggerating. You be the judge...
Really, who could blame them for going on a hunger strike. How long should someone wait behind bars for the fuck tards in Washington to figure out what to do with them? Either put them on trial, or let them go.
...expensive prison in the world. Here are some stats:
166: Number of detainees currently at Gitmo.
$177 million: Total operating budget for 2013.
$1,066,265: Amount U.S. taxpayers will spend on each detainee in 2013.
$33,903: Average cost per inmate at a maximum security Federal prison.
$38.45: Spent each day to feed a Guantanamo detainee. (2011)
Maybe we can make up the $177 million by cutting food stamps. Then U.S. citizens would know what it's like to be on a hunger strike (although not by choice).
Personally I can't work up a lot of sympathy for the inmates there, but I will note that I loathe the Christians that exacerbate this "holy war" almost as much as I do the Muslims that they are at war with.
The Muslims don't hate us for our "freedom" their hate comes from two roots, one is the stupid argument over a two thousand year old fairy tale that people have been killing each over for centuries, the other is a more recent development which is we can't seem to mind our own business in that part of the world and our "unwavering" support of Israel doesn't come without a price, and that price is the undying and sometimes fanatical hatred of hundreds of millions of Muslims.
...56 of the 86 are from Yemen and won't be released because of the security situation in Yemen.
I have had a tube inserted due to a former medical issue. It is very painless. Could not begin to estimate the number of people I know who also had it done. No big deal
Here is a video of a seven-year old girl showing how it is done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJIFOCbPTjo
The issue of how long they have been there is another issue. But whether inserting a tube is torture, you have to remember that it is done countless times every day by nurses and self-insertion
put a plate of food in their cell. if they don't eat, they don't eat.
WHO GIVES A SHIT!!! If you want to starve yourself to death, GO FOR IT!!!