Guantanamo Bay rations detainees’ ice cream portions
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:49 AM on 26th September 2010
Detainees’ diets at Guantanamo Bay have been a controversial issue for some time and now the U.S. prison is said to be rationing ice cream.
The frozen dessert is allegedly being tightly measured, with only one ice cream allowed for each of its 147 detainees.
Journalist for The Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg, photographed a refrigerator at Guantanamo, with two signs reading ‘DETAINEE FOOD ONLY’ and ‘Only 1 Ice Cream For each detainee!’
Rosenberg revealed: ‘Found this fridge for Guantanamo detainee food in the rotunda of Camp 6, the most populous of the U.S Navy base prison camps on Sept. 23, 2010 with nearly 90 captives.’
The report comes after much debate on the feeding of U.S. detainees suspected of terrorism, where under feeding in the past has angered human rights advocates.
‘Until recently the prison camps boasted on their website that they provide the 174 war on terror detainees with 5,500 – 6,000 calories a day’, Rosenberg wrote.
But early detainees were said to have been barely given enough food to survive, while others later tried to starve themselves by attempting hunger strikes.
The ice cream rationing has now led the journalist to question Guantanamo Bay’s motives, suspecting that it might be an attempt to reduce spending..............[brilliant deduction!]
There's a far easier way to reduce spending, close the damn place, charge those who have committed crimes and try them in the courts, and release the others. You know, like Obama said he would do. But let's not count on campaign promises being kept or any outbreak of common sense--it's easier to cut back on ice cream.
Ice cream? What are they trying to make it, an American Theresienstadt? I doubt anyone is being fooled.
So there are getting virtually no exercise and are consuming 6,000 calories per day. Unless they are now all as wide as they are tall, someone is spouting bullshit.
Jarlaxle wrote:I suspect the "DETAINEE FOOD ONLY" sign was so the GUARDS didn't take the ice cream.
Jarl--one would think it would be easy enough to tell the guards to take nothing from the refrigerators in the detention area nd save having to have signs made up.
Scooter--torture--sorry interrogation and waterboarding (which is not torture according to our justice department memos)--could use a lot of calories.
Jarl--one would think it would be easy enough to tell the guards to take nothing from the refrigerators in the detention area nd save having to have signs made up.
That's an excellent point Big RR....
That would explain why, when one goes on to a military base, one never sees any signs telling people what to do. All instructions are conveyed to military personnel verbally, and they retain and follow them all, without any need for signs to remind anyone of the policies.
Jim--Not sure about the military, but it does explain why businesses don't post signs for policies, but brief their employees on what is expected and then expect them to do it. There is no more need to have a sign saying something is the detainee's food to prevent the guards from taking it, than there is to have a similar sign to keep the guards from taking the detainee's clothing or other personal effects; it's enought that they be told not to take these items. Most signs are designed not to inform employees of policies but to inform visitors what these policies are (and i don't think Gitmo gets that many visitors).
