Chris Arendt Describes Fellow Gitmo Guards as "Genuinely Psychotic"

"For quite a few people in my unit, this was a vacation. This was the opportunity that they'd always wanted to be violent and awful people. They got every opportunity to act like they would really want to act because they're genuinely psychotic. And for others it was just a job." -- former Guantanamo Bay prison guard, Chris Arendt

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[REALLYIMAGINARY]

THE PROBLEM I ALWAYS HAVE HAD WITH TORTURE IS TIHS:

how do you know if by torturing someone you are making them confess to truth they know, or if they are only lying to you to make you stop torturing them by telling the torturer what he wants to hear the victim confess?

[amessemichael]

Same. Im A Canadian also. America has become terrorists. Bombing civilians every day, killing innocent civilians. what did hitler do? he killed innocent civilians for the greater good of germany. America kills innocent civilians for the greater good of the country. Its genocide!

[MrAllthatnmore]

Didn't this guy get kicked out for failing the piss test

[triplett01]

fuck this hipster pussy piece of shit

[garrethdavis]

And Obama has the fucking CHEEK to act like he gives a shit about torture.

[generalkunal]

@lail111 take care of ur own home first u filthy pig and then talk about the world.

[fish1597]

@lail111 the Us are far from perfect but thru the years i seen in comparison more caution using the armies than the others, maybe you should also look at what others are doing and not being reported or used as propaganda.Is a shitty world out there and the are a lot of bad players. I know youve picked your side and i have picked mine lets hope we are both wrong and something good comes from this confusing world. Are you old enough to remember the cold war?

i do and it was scary......

[fish1597]

@lail111 i see your point of innocent people, but you also have to accept the reality that many that left gitmo went back to fight and they were recaptured or killed. I is far from perfect but there is a lot of caution taken to get any of these prisioners . I dont think all are guilty but the great mayority were in a war zone doing something that was considered fighting.I dont condone the US but on the other hand when by comparison i look at north korea ,russia,china and others,i see them worst

[fish1597]

@lail111 i dont know about you but if i see someone being mistreated i will intervine and say something when it happens, not when i am out of there . It tells me the kind of person that mr.chris arendt is. In the military there are ways to fight this kind of behavior.I also know alot of good soldiers that will question the veracity of what he is saying specially under the microscope of the whole world , since anything that happens in gitmo will be on the news, I really question his intentions.

[lail111]

@fish1597

u support imprisonment without trial?what happened to innocent t'ill proven guilty.

all u care about is what about the other side.

what's this scoring points?if u don't trust this guy's testmony there are plenty others mainly from the ex guantanamo bay prisoners who have been held without trial and without charge for years.

research!

[lail111]

@fish1597

the other side as u put it do not claim 2 be champions of freedom and democracy.

this guy knows the full story he was a guard more than u will ever know.

most of the detainees still held there are not been charged with any crimes and yet they are tortured u don't see anything wrong with this picture?

some detainness have been released without charge after spending years in a cage been tortured ,they missed out on big chunk of their lives and children's lives.

u support

[fish1597]

God if that was torture....., what about the other side beheading and bloddy ways of treating their prisoners, this guy was a soldier or a boy scout . We all know that the right treatment of prisioners is a must but seems always one sided . he never saw war and those who were detainees under combat, there is something missing in this guys declaration