The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody.
It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.
The concern we have is that if somebody from our side gets captured they are going to get their throats slit.
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.
I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.
We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm.
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