It's been ages since I left a mark here.
Well...
Crucifixion: A McDonalds Story
Recently I saw this thing at McDonalds which stunned me a bit. You'll remember this donation collection box for the McDonalds children charity thing at the counter of most (if not all) McDonalds outlets... while having breakfast there a week ago, I cast a cursory glance at one of those collection boxes and behold! I saw nail-pierced (or rather, screw-pierced) hands!
His hands! Take a closer look!
Goodness... they sure didn't know what they were doing!
Naan desu ka?
On Thursday our unit went for a movie screening at Marina Square... the movie was called "The Road to Guantanamo", which was about a few Muslims living in Britain, who went to the Middle East for a wedding and ended up at Afghanistan (they went there out of curiosity, and to try those big Naans (some kind of Indian Muslim flat bread). They were really big, but considering the price they paid for it...) during the period of the post 911 Afghan war. They were subsequently captured by Northern Alliance forces along with other Afghan refugees and sent to various detention camps, the last stop being the one in Guantanamo.
Nick later said that one of the morals of the story was "do not do stupid things for big Naans".
The captives were treated inhumanely in those camps... I'm sure the real situation was worse than what the movie portrayed (I supposed they didn't bear to do the strip-them-naked-stack'em-and-take-a-few-shots), but a film is a film after all... Anyway, I think the film already portrayed 80% of the treatments given. what struck me most was the part where an individual captive will be chained in a dark room in which heavy metal music wil be played at a BLASTING volume just to break those captives down.
Other ridiculous-but-not-unexpected stuff will include the I'll-show-you-a-video-with-Osama-inside-and-point-to-any-random-turban-guy-in-the-crowd-and-say-it-was-you kind of brainless-but-we-have-no-alternative technique. I mean that's what interrogators do all the time; they'll only say you're co-operative if and only if you say what they want to hear.
... It's always logical to try breaking a captive down to illicit information, but it's about how far you're allowed to go. Who gives the permission anyway?
"As far as I'm concerned, they (the captives) are bad people... who didn't share the "values" we share..."
But please remember Mr President that most of the soldiers don't share these "values" either, and there's always a big implication for waging a war in God's name. I think the world is getting more wary of America and Christians in general even though American != Christian. Not that I'm saying that Bush supports those vices... he later said that the doers and supporters of those deeds were "not the America he knew". The America he "knew" was an all-Christian nation I suppose.
In reality it's obviously not the case.
Woe to those terrorists as well as they started this in the first place.
