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Brandon
Neely -former guard at the Guantanamo Bay
American
Vietnam War Veteran Opposes US Military
Here is an excerpt from an
article by an American ex-soldier for the national
holiday in the USA called Veteran's Day
The US military is a
Godzilla gone to fat, a huge bloated grasping
careerist-driven doctrinaire appendage of a broken
political system and industrial monstrosity that is
driving the nation and the world ever deeper into a
giant black hole, a coruscation of Grand Strategies
and ever-more-lethal technologies that have no
meaning and no end except satisfaction of the greeds
and ambitions and random thrashings of a very few
self-selected humans.
Want to educate
yourself on how it really works? You might start with
The War Department's own "Dictionary of Military
and Related Terms," http://www.dtic.mil/... and pay attention to the
provenance of this one among millions of War
Department "initiatives," which has its own
budgetary constituency of "commands" and
hundreds of millions of dollars in
real-wealth-converted-to-military-doctrinarianism.
It's a cancer, and feeding it should be the last
thing any of us not "serving their countries by
killing Others and converting real wealth and true
security into scrap metal, splattered corpses and
dead-end games" should be wanting to do.
Source:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/30/980561/-A-Vietnam-vets-contrarian-view-of-Memorial-Day-%28just-another-futile-rant,-of-course%29
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This is a copy from Wikipedia Dec 2011 Brendon Neely
Brandon Neely is a former Army guard at the Guantanamo
Bay detention camp, in Cuba.[2][3] Neely is notable for
agreeing to be interviewed by the Center for the Study of
Human Rights in the Americas at the University of
California, at Davis.
Neely declined to respond to a recall to active duty from
the Individual Ready Reserve in 2007.[4][5][6] Neely
reported that, after receiving letters from the
Department of Defense, he was sent an honorable discharge
from the Army Reserve.[citation needed]
In January 2010, Neely flew to the United Kingdom and
meet with former captives.[7] Neely and Ruhal Ahmed and
Shafiq Rasul reconnected in 2009 via Rasul's Facebook
page. The BBC Radio was scheduled to air a documentary
about the meeting on January 14, 2010.
Contents
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1 Guantanamo duty
2 Civilian life
3 References
4 External links
[edit] Guantanamo duty
Neely was a guard at Guantanamo for the first six months
the camp was open, and described feeling guilty for the
brutal treatment captives received at that time.
In an interview with Center for the Study of Human Rights
in the Americas Neely said that he and another guard
experienced the first resistant prisoner for whom a
"code red" (a euphemism for a violent
extrajudicial punishment) was called, calling in the
camp's first use of its immediate reaction force. He
described how he and the other guard were trying to get a
captive to kneel, so they could remove the captive's
shackles. He could feel the captive trembling, and his
body tense up. He and the other guard threw the elderly
man to his cell's concrete floor, and called for the
immediate reaction force. Neely described learning later
that the reason the captive was shaking, and his body was
so tense, was that he believed he was being made to kneel
in preparation for his summary executiona bullet to
the back of the head.
Neely described watching a medic calling upon the
immediate reaction force to hold an underweight captive
immobile so he could force him to drink a can of ensure.
When the captive wouldn't open his mouth, Neely said the
medic asked Neely to move, and then punched the captive
twice in the face. Neely said he only realized afterwards
that the medic had him move to a point where Neely's body
blocked the medics punches from the guards in the guard
tower. He said later learned that the captive resisted
drinking the diet supplement because he feared it was
poisonous.
Neely said that he saw camp medical staff perform a
rectal examination, searching for contraband, without
first lubricating their fingers, and that this made the
captive's scream in pain.
Neely said that it had been a friend of his who was the
first guard the captives saw drop a Koran on the ground.
He said that this incident upset the captives so much it
triggered a camp-wide hunger strike. While the Colonel in
command of their unit said the guard who dropped the
koran would be punished, his friend was never punished.
Neely said that female guards used to regularly take
their turns escorting captives to the open-air showers,
and that the captives felt humiliated to be exposed,
naked, in front of the female guard.
Neely said that camp authorities told the guards they
could not leave Guantanamo, for their next assignment,
unless they signed a confidentiality agreement, promising
not to give interviews about Guantanamo, or to write
about their experiences there themselves.
[edit] Civilian life
Brandon Neely is the former president of the Houston
chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War.[5][8]
Brandon Neely resigns from IVAW in early 2008 citing IVAW
was becoming radical and anti-American.
Neely became a police officer after his discharge in
2005.
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