{"id":10125,"date":"2013-07-14T15:13:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T22:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10125"},"modified":"2013-07-14T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T22:12:09","slug":"brad-blogs-desi-doyen-on-the-point-on-force-feeding-of-cleared-gitmo-prisoners-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10125","title":{"rendered":"BRAD BLOG&#8217;s Desi Doyen on &#8216;The Point&#8217; on Force-Feeding of Cleared Gitmo Prisoners [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s our own Desi Doyen (of <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG&#8217;s <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>) on this week&#8217;s <i>The Point<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tytnetwork.com\/?\">The Young Turks&#8217;<\/a> panel show, along with Dave Rubin, Kelly Carlin &#038; Anna Kasparian, talking about rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) getting <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Force-feeding\">force-fed<\/a> in solidarity with the Gitmo prisoners who have been on hunger strike protesting their captivity for months&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/daNHAqeyqQU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guantanamo_force_feeding\">force-feeding being carried out on the Gitmo prisoners<\/a> is a human rights abuse decried as torture by organizations such as the Red Cross, the United Nations and the World Medical Association.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all the more outrageous considering that more than 80 of the prisoners currently on hunger strike &#8212; and being force fed through a tube in their nose for months &#8212; have <i>been cleared for release years ago by the U.S. government<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, they still sit today, for years on end, as prisoners, never to face charges and with little hope of being released any time in the near future. That, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10033\">President Obama&#8217;s claims<\/a> that he wants to close Gitmo and, most importantly, the fact that <em>he has the power and ability to send all of the cleared prisoners home tomorrow<\/em>, with little more than a stroke of his pen.<\/p>\n<p>And, by the way, the very popular Rightwing Republican hypocrite and idiot Glenn Beck is so clueless that he either doesn&#8217;t know the above, or simply doesn&#8217;t care. Instead of calling for these people to be treated humanely or have their rights and <i>freedom<\/i> (which he pretends to care about) restored, last week he made fun of them and expressed his preference that the U.S. government should just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LXKaCR64CUg\">&#8220;shoot them in the head&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that, please, the next time the con-man Beck attempts to hoodwink you or anybody else into believing that he gives a tinker&#8217;s damn about &#8220;Big Government&#8221; tyranny, freedom, individual rights or anything other than disinforming America in order to line his own pockets with the hard-earned cash of his gullible, easily-conned fellow citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s our own Desi Doyen (of The BRAD BLOG&#8217;s Green News Report) on this week&#8217;s The Point, The Young Turks&#8217; panel show, along with Dave Rubin, Kelly Carlin &#038; Anna Kasparian, talking about rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) getting force-fed in solidarity with the Gitmo prisoners who have been on hunger strike protesting their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,405,289,263,126,186,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-bush-legacy","category-glenn-beck","category-guantanamo-bay","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-united-nations","category-war-on-terror"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10125"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}