Friday, October 13, 2006

To Blog the Word...

To Blog the word 'blog' may well seem slightly redundant to some people, but this is no ordinary rambling at five to two in the morning!
I came up with the idea the other day when I had entered the word into a passage. The spellcheck on this confounded (all American) website decided that it didn't recognise its own content! Can you believe that? A website, that without doubt, looks very nice; its clean, crisp templates sorting us all into lovely little boxes, but when it comes to know what it's content is; it hasn't got a clue!
In fact, this issue has incensed me so much that I refuse to tell this god-awful excuse for a spellchecker that it really should make an effort to learn the word that most of us have come to love or hate! It's bizarre! Something that you just couldn't make up if you tried! Kinda like the fuss going on down at GTMO at the moment!
You see, the BBC has come across a very interesting (classified) document belonging to the CIA. In this document it reveals the levels of paranoia at work in what seems to be all branches of the government in the US. The CIA in this document warn all involved at Camp X-ray to be on their guard for the organisation of their prisoners, their visits from their lawyers and in one case a lawyer himself! They believe that after the one to five years that these prisoners have served of their indefinite sentences, they are now trying to win their freedom through highly complicated 'mind games' with their captors! Now, just who do they think is in charge down there? Hey? I mean honestly, do you think that if you were serving an undefined and illegal sentence, seemingly out of the reach of the law, that you would suddenly think after a couple of years, "hey, I'm not going anywhere, lets see if we can get those Yankee bastards thinking we're geniuses!"? I mean, HONESTLY!
I would say to you (cringe at the 'Blairism'), I have had some military training in my short life; I'm not proud of it, but I got heavily into elite training techniques (reading about them etc.) and they're pretty difficult to achieve when you haven't been incarcerated! Let alone when you've been in solitary confinement for almost a year!
This is all in the light, this week, of another document; an affidavit signed by a female legal officer on the base, who was told boastingly by many army personnel that they freely beat inmates. And, if that wasn't bad enough!! A Naval officer that worked at the prison, this week, divulged to the world that when prisoners were deemed to be behaving well they are given Happy Meals as a reward! FUCK! I know I said I'd read up on elite training techniques, but those books that I read must have thought that one a bit too extreme for public knowledge! "Please! No! Hang me! Kick me! Shoot me! Please! Anything, but another Fillet'o'Fish sandwich!"
More evidence (if it was needed) that this prison is immoral, barbaric and, above all, illegal!
Is America as stupid (at the moment) as we give it credit for? Well, being lead by a monkey on the roll of the oil and defense industries isn't a very good start now is it?
The little black poet is alive and well in this disgruntled commentator!

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