My Sympathy Levels Are Low

When people willingly and knowingly commit violent, or other, human rights atrocities they should not look for either sympathy or understanding from society at large - they are the authors of their own misfortune and hold ultimate responsibility for the demons that come to haunt them.

Guantánamo guards suffer psychological trauma

The guards at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp are the “overlooked victims” of America’s controversial detention facility in Cuba, according to a psychiatrist who has treated some of them.

In some cases, a tour of duty at the camp has made guards suicidal and prompted a variety of psychiatric symptoms, from depression and insomnia to flashbacks. The guards’ testimony also provides a harrowing insight into the treatment of prisoners.


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3 Responses to “My Sympathy Levels Are Low”

  1. Treehugger on February 28th, 2008 at 7:52 am

    “My sympathy levels are low”

    No kidding. This story is a bit unbelievable.

  2. JonZor on February 28th, 2008 at 10:07 am

    This is sickening on so many levels. SL, I agree that these guards are responsible for their own suffering, but in no way should it end there. It says in the article that the guard was ordered to do these things by his superiors. Who were his superiors? Why have they not been called to answer for their actions? If anything, this is a call to end Bush’s horrific experiment in human suffering, and bring those responsible, all the way up to the top, to justice.

  3. stageleft on February 28th, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    In each of these individual cases who their superiors are is not relevant - what reasonable person would not look at such acts and not know they are wrong as they were committing them?

    In the grand scheme of things their superiors will claim that they were following orders - and they will not be called to answer for their actions because the United States of America has deemed those acts to be legal…. at least when they commit them.

    Those in the government of the United States of America who are responsible for making these acts legal will not be called to answer for that because, IMO, America is afraid of discovering just exactly how deep the rabbit hole really goes.

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