No American Flags at GITMO in Submission to Muslim Terrorist Detainees

The enemy should be saluting that gorgeous symbol everyday. Instead, we removed our flag so as not to offend Muslims?

I would make them eat the flag. This is an insult to every American and every soldier who fought and died in the great and righteous cause of freedom. I don't know how I missed this back in May (thanks to Heidi for sending it in).

No Flags at Gitmo May 3, 2011 by John Hinderaker

Richard Miniter has just published a new book called called Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. With the killing of Osama bin Laden in the news, it couldn’t be more timely.
...... this astonishing tidbit comes from Big Government:

I was stunned to learn while researching Mastermind that Guantanamo detainees succeeded in convincing prison officials to no longer raise the American flag anywhere they could see it. Each morning on every U.S. military base around the world, the American flag is raised to a bugle. But in the interests of not offending the detainees, it was stopped at Guantanamo.

The mind boggles. Guantanamo Bay must be the most user-friendly detention facility in world history. Up to a point that is fine, but not flying the American flag at a military base? Ridiculous.

It's beyond ridiculous. Way beyond.

How much crap do our finest have to take?

Officers tell of daily attacks by inmates against U.S. military personnel, who are ordered not to respond. The officers have also been ordered to fulfill the religious, cultural and even entertainment needs of the inmates, including providing Arabic translations of Harry Potter.

"I have never once since I've been down here ever heard of a detainee being abused, but I've seen the soldiers and sailors get abused," Staff Sgt. Thomas Garcia said. "[Detainees] throw some of the most unmentionable cocktails. They urinate on [the guards]. They spit. They call them names."

[...]

"As a commander, I don't like my folks being in danger every day," U.S. Navy Cmdr. Kris Winter said.

Guards have been routinely pelted with feces by inmates and face physical attacks from al Qaeda detainees. In May, al Qaeda detainees organized an ambush to stop a search of cells for contraband medication following two suicide attempts. Prison authorities have responded by providing inmates with a huge Arabic library, a modern hospital, sporting facilities and satellite television. Officials said Harry Potter in Arabic was one of the most popular books in Camp Delta.

Comments

[Mike in San Diego]

This is f**king ridiculous! They should take them 20 miles out to sea and let them swim home.

Who the f**k comes up with these stupid ideas? They think that by giving them Harry Potter books they will give up the Jihad?

Who ever agreed to not raise the flag within the terrorists view should be court-martialed!

[Zilla]

Stupid dhimmi bastards capitulating to those scum, no doubt caliph Obama's prints are all over this travesty.

[Scott in Texas]

I think we should plaster American flags on the ceilings of their cells and wake them up to the "American National Anthem" and put them to sleep to "America the Beautiful".

And right after lunch time, they get to hear John Wayne's "Why I Love Her" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQM1oLnMLNU) EVERYDAY!!

I guaran damn tee you, that everyone of those detainees will be memorizing the lyrics, singing along and demanding a Bible where they can lay their hand and swear their oath of allegiance to this country!

[When*Pigs8Fly]

Eat them? I'd have them inserted where the sun doesn't shine.

[annonymous]

Wake me up when this insane nightmare if over!

[Karol Kibbie]

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What on earth is the matter with this country?

[Richard]

Liberals

[Florida Infidel]

2012 can't come soon enough!! NoBama 2012! No American flags at Gitmo?? Those bastards must be smirking and laughing, thinking, hey, we won, no more USA. SCREW THEM!! Many veterans in the US are homeless, with nothing at all, and these pond scum killers are living large with every luxury, on our dime?? Screw that!! They should be breaking rocks in chain gangs, and shot on sight if they try to bolt; just like all over the South!

[Jerry]

What;s the problem here? THEY are DETAINEES they don't make the rules. Come On get real. Hang a flag where they can see one 24 hours a day 365 days a year. The keyword here id DETAINEES........

[Norm]

Ref (Mike in San Diego):"Who the f**k comes up with these stupid ideas? "

The last I knew it was non-other than that Muslim lover in the White House...no American would ever
surrender to his prisoners!

[Xavier823]

If this story is true it would make for an interesting question at ask all the politician running in 2012 what they think of no American flag and the delicate treatment our sworn enemies are given by the military at Gitmo. It might very well be a good time for some congressman to call for a congressional hearing on all of this and find out who is responsible for this.

[Jacqueline]

So stupid, so without American flag, Americans officer will not look Americans?

[Davod]

Since well before 9/11, the US government has been receiving distorted advice concerning the adherants of Islam. Congress has to find out where these guidelines originated.

[Dagny Taggart]

I am usually more eloquent, but WTF?!

[Christy]

I had to reread this article and I did it with increasing disgust, shock, anger, and embarrassment. Obama is by far the worst president we have ever had, a true wolf in sheep's clothing. Those terrorists are prisoners who are supposed to be punished for trying to murder us and should never be catered to in any way, shape, or form.

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last".
Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)

[Choi]

Progressive Jihadi Pandering Liberal DEMOCRATS

[make your blood boil]

Fn chimps gonna act like Fn chimps, Fn treat 'em that way!!!!

[ann]

Good Our Lying Traitor Dictator and Thief will feel right at home when he's serving his life sentence for treason for GUNWALKER in which he and Eric Holder sold guns to the drug cartel of Mexico --- Holder caught on tape saying he was the master mind of GUNWALKER IN A SPEECH HE GAVE IN MEXICO MAY YOU BOTH SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE IN PRISON!!! HOLDER GAVE THE speech in 2009---can we say I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMEN---NO, I MEAN THAT WOMEN --- YOU CAN'T IMPEACH ME!!!SAME LIE DIFFERENT DAY!!!

[come on out]

like hell... you (and everybody else) better get your family, friends, neighbors, and relatives, especially the ones you DON'T like, woke the hell up

the fearless lady can't do it all by herself

[Person of the Book]

Put Sheriff Joe Arpaio in charge of Gitmo.

[Davod]

I will add to my earlier post that it is no wonder many detainees returned to the fight. Not because of illtreatment, but disdain for the USA.

[Judi]

I just cannot believe what I am reading - how dare these towel-heads dictate to the military what they can and cannot do! It has all the handprints of the muslim stooge in the White House. Roll on 2012!

[Alarmed Pig Farmer]

Serious questions have already been raised about the reliability of our military command. It's as if they attended one too many seminars hosted by the HR Department and have forgotten that they're military men.

Now, they're more like administrators, but wearing uniforms and working with a lotta real cool toys.

[Rickey]

I think there should be a giant American Flag painted on every exterior wall and these morons should have to wash those walls every day!The a**hat that capitulated to this nonsense should be court marshaled and water boarded!Halal meals?Yeah cooked in bacon grease!

[Heltau]

This type of order comes from the oral office in dc. No one would uphold that order if it came from the local command because the oral office would counter man it when the oral office found out. HE KNOWS this has happened at GITMO, so he gave the order or he condones the order that was given.
TRAITOR AT ALL POINTS THROUGH OUT THIS REIGN OF TERROR ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE UNIVERSE.

[John P]

Next they'll want porn, like OBL.

[RobitJ]

Gitmo..I served there in 1970 in Marine Barracks. Out on the fenceline near a locked gate is a barracks with a Company of combat Marines always on the ready. In front of that barracks is the world's biggest Marine Corp Insignia.
A few years earlier in the sixties after the Cuban 'Revolution', Castro, not liking combat troops so close to the fenceline, trained giant spotlights on the barracks every night so that the men would have trouble sleeping. What did they do? They built in the side of the hill an enormous Marine Emblem so that the spotlights from Castro would show it. He turned off the lights. We turned on our own and today stands as a symbol to the Regime of Cuba and to the Cuban people that here was Freedom.
Castro also turned off the water to the base. We took out a huge section of the giant above ground pipeline, lit it up to show we did not need the water and built one of the first desalinization plants in the world.
In those days, the US was proud to be who we were and ready to stick it where the sun does not shine to the Castro's of the world. Obviously, this has changed. The real US would have listened politely and gravely to the demands of the POW's and then they would have built the biggest flagpole and the biggest flag they could find outside the compound and had a full ceremony every morning and evening to raise and lower the Flag.
For the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed to think that my country would cave to such demands. How dare they. This is cowardice in the face of the enemy. We will NEVER win this by kissing the behinds of these dogs.

[anthonycassandra46@gmail.com]

Here is a solution that I bet the Brass hasn't tried: Raise the Flag every morning in plain sight of the detainees and if they start throwing feces or urinate and spit on the guards...hit them with tazers until they stop!! If the tazers don't work, shoot their sorry rears and bury them...it will probably take about one or two of these reactions to stop all the nonesense.

[AMERICAN CITIZEN]

The officers have also been ordered to fulfill the religious, cultural and even entertainment needs of the inmates - AS

sure seems like the most muzzie-friendly alledgedly "Christian" Resident of the white house in the history of AMERICA .... who says he'll side with the muzzies if the political winds shift in an UGLY direction

wonder how the hell THAT could ever happen...

POS ain't NEVER gittin MY vote

[WAY smarter than bobby gates criteria]

guess thats what happens after 50 years of America-hating, f&cking Commie, radicals have infitrated the legal system, the education system, the political system, and the military

[TheMezz]

My lib friend sent me this link:

http://www.turret.com/content/us-flags-still-fly-gitmo-despite-rumors-contrary

[Laura]

If I were in charge I would serve them their meals on red, white and blue plates...lots of hotdogs.

[Zilla]

Linked here:
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[ED]

FEED 'EM PIGS EARS AND SKINS AND CORNBREAD(MAY THE SOUTH FORGIVE ME)MADE WITH LARD AND BACON GREASE. IS THIS JUST A SUMMER SLEEPAWAY CAMP ? IF THEY MUST HAVE TV MAKE IT THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY AND PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR EXERCISE, GIVE THEM EXERCISE BANDS, AND IF THEY ACCIDENTALLY WIND UP AROUND THEIR NECK, TOUGH BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T READ THE INSTRUCTIONS WRITTEN IN AMERICAN ENGLISH.
WHY PAMPER ?, THEY WANT TO KILL US, NOT BE ON OUR BASEBALL OR FOOTBALL TEAMS.

[Auntie Gin]

Pork hotdogs!

[Makabit]

Everyone, please take a deep breath. According to the Rumor Doctor at Stars and Stripes, this is not the case.

http://www.stripes.com/blogs/the-rumor-doctor/the-rumor-doctor-1.104348/is-the-american-flag-flown-at-guantanamo-bay-1.143912

To sum up: THE RUMOR DOCTOR’S DIAGNOSIS: This story is false, and it appears to be based on a misunderstanding of what was reported in “Mastermind.” Thanks to the internet, rumor and innuendo move so quickly that they are accepted as fact long before anyone can do some fact-checking.

[pretzeldude]

Take them out over 100 miles. At 20 miles one of those ba$$tards might be able to swim back. Also take them out during a hurricane just to be sure.
Don't court Martial the flag decision maker just shoot the ba$$tard on the spot.

[pretzeldude]

You are one of the reasons this country is in such turmoil. I'll bet you voted for Obama and are happy with his BS.

[BethesdaDog]

Can only true if sworn to by four pious Muslim males.

[karl anglin]

I am more than willing
to bet that Obama is behind
this flag removal.

[karl anglin]

Look to 1600 Pennsylvainia Avenue
Washington DC.

[karl anglin]

One thing points to Obama

[Guy Plante/NH Guy]

Are the guards (our soldiers) at GITMO forbidden to wear the American flag on their uniforms, too?

[Willie Evershave]

The Gitmo people, and those above them, need to get some real training in how to run a containment facility from Sheriff Joe in Arizona. Gitmo has become a country club on our dime! The "guests" at Gitmo should be on a solid diet of pork, fed to them on conveyor belts so our soldiers don't have to have any contact with them other than scrape them up when they die, and that could be automated as well. WE ALL KNOW OBAMA HAS TO GO! If the House had any guts at all, they would impeach this Muslim bastard, and his czars, before November 2012. Let's get'er done!

[Willie Evershave]

There is no one I can think of in the entire legislative branch of the US government who has the guts, patriotism, or love of country, sufficient to challenge this Muslim Clown in the White House. We must remedy this in November 2012. We have waited far too long to attack this problem, and the longer we wait, the tougher it gets because these liberal micro-cephalic dumdums continue to breed, and since the educational system has been so thoroughly infiltrated by these anti-US polecats the liberal education is continually being advanced by rote and chanting (brainwashing), as Hitler and Stalin trained their youth. We have to clean the whole house, not just the crapper! Wake up, USA!

[berengaria]

No American Flags at Club Gitmo, or Club Obama should be made public in every so-called newspaper in America. I'm going to call Representative Mica's office in Florida tomorrow, and ask that he investigate this. I know that there are quite a few Obamanites serving in the military atClub Gitmo, but the American Flag should be raised on that base as long as there are Americans serving there. I suspect that this is the little man in the WH accomodating his muslim bros.

[Brian]

I have come to accept their lunacy. All I want now is the name of these anti-American cowards.

[Kevin]

This is disgusting! I am agreeing that it is probably filtering down from that person in the White House. I have family in the correction business and if one of them gets assaulted bye a prisoner, the prisoner pays the price, not the C O.
I personally think they need the flags flying and Kate Smith singing "God Bless America"!

[usmcgiolinh@gmail.com]

This crap has been going on since Viet Nam and the boat people. My solution has always been to put on the white hats and tell the world we are the good guys. Make a policy that all the POW's we have are going to be returned to the mideast on modified B 52's with seats. Somewhere over the Atlantic open the bomb bay doors and seats away, droping them to ths sharks. Who would know the DIFFERENCE where they ended up. Oh by the way get those S O B's in our goverment that let them get away this this S-IT to go along for the ride, problem solved. We should enact a law to run for public office that you need to have a Combat Action Ribbon, or a Combat Action Badge to be elgibile to be elected.

[Sgt B-Rad]

I am not too concerned with this news. By the time they get back to their home countries we will have American flags hanging over their capital buildings! Just cut us loose and the Marines will invade!....it only took a few weeks to hang a flag over saddam's palace.

[BRIAN]

I HAVE JUST ONE QUESTION I F THEY TOOK OUR GUY PRISONER WOULD THEY BE THAT ACOMMIDATING TO US
I DONT THINK SO

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