Yes, it does seem that many of the reservist there at the prison were
recruited from the United States prison system. garner, himself, has sid he
aws under the impression "they" wanted him to use some of the same tactics
he was known for using at his day job in a Pa. Prison. Was this the case wih
British or other soldiers involved with incarceration? Seems to be a
pattern.
Gerald Schwartz
> Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
>> Yeah, well, Ken, while I agree, I suspect you're right that it needs
>> some tweaking, if ever to reach (if you want to) an audience that
>> doesn't already agree with you. The problem, in a nutshell?
>>
>> Didn't you mean 'with official permission' to be 'without official
>> permission'?
>
> Yeah, one of my commoner proofreading lapses. Ironically the military
> court would not accept Pvt. England's plea, so the prosecutors seem to
> be back on Square One.
>
> What I find difficult here, which is why the writing is a long way from
> done (if I ever think it's important enough to do it over), is that
> there is are indeed both volunteer and victim aspects of Lynndie England
> that make her (in my mind) a seriously complex character who really is
> worthy of some serious discussion, even if the study comes from Stanley
> Milgram's ghost. I truly believe she and her buddies in the prison were
> given free rein to do as they wished by implicit direction from On High,
> but that this young woman had a gift for repellent behavior before she
> ever put on the uniform. Who let up on the reins? Of course I do not
> know. Yet I am not exactly shocked and awed that her defense either
> wasn't allowed to or didn't try to subpoena Gen. Karpinski, the prison
> governor; Ricardo Sanchez; or (this would be a stretch) Donald
> Rumsfeld. Someone was stage-managing prisoner treatment at Abu Ghraib
> and elsewhere and it wasn't a 20-year-old woman. I still recall the
> comment attributed to some guy in Defense, that they purposely selected
> people like Lynndie English for prison duty because they were stupid and
> sadistic hillbillies. If not those words than close enough.
>
> As for preaching to the choir, what else is there? I can't send this to
> the American Century. Everyone has their house organs for their version
> of dissent--either from right- or left-wing line--and there is no
> cross-pollination. Which is why society south of the Canadian border
> may not have too many bees but there isn't much honey either.
>
> Ken
>
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