{"id":245,"date":"2005-05-17T09:59:45","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2005-05-17T09:59:45","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T14:59:45","slug":"pay-no-attention-if-a-dove-flies-out-of-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2005\/05\/pay-no-attention-if-a-dove-flies-out-of-your-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay no attention if a dove flies out of your pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe I’m paranoid, but am I the only one who thinks all of the furor<\/a> over Newsweek’s recent retraction<\/a> is a diversion?<\/p>\n

In case you’ve been under a rock, in its issue dated May 9, Newsweek<\/span> published a small piece in their “Periscope” section which stated that American guards at the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba were using a number of extreme tactics to get terror suspects to reveal information, including, at one point, flushing a copy of the Qur’an down a toilet.<\/p>\n

Do you notice the way everyone has seized on the religious infraction, has seized on the lack of respect for Islam that desecrating that faith’s holy book would evidence?<\/p>\n

Do you notice the way everyone is ignoring that first part about the guards using extreme tactics to get terror suspects to talk?<\/p>\n

Do you notice the way everyone is ignoring the fact that we’ve been holding people prisoner, some for going on three years now, without charging them with anything, cut off from communication with the rest of the world, including their legal counsel?<\/p>\n

Maybe I’m paranoid. Or maybe, just maybe, the Emperor’s naked.<\/p>\n

\nNews sources:<\/p>\n