<story><title>The sudden silencing of Guantanamo&apos;s artists</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62399826</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erdos4d</author><text>&amp;gt; Sometimes it really does seem that &amp;quot;the cruelty is the point&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;This extends very far beyond Guantanamo. I really wonder where all these sick fucks come from. I don&amp;#x27;t remember much of a psycho vibe from classmates or work colleagues. Yet the US makes them in sufficient quantity that they seem to pop up wherever authority is. Prisons, police, military, they all seem to have endless human garbage that enjoys being cruel if they can. How has this country produced these &amp;quot;people&amp;quot; and why do they achieve positions of power instead of failure?</text></item><item><author>kiwih</author><text>&amp;gt; Until the end of 2017, Guantanamo detainees were allowed to take their art with them when they were released, or give it to their lawyers to take out.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The artists could bring their work to meetings with their lawyers, who would submit it along with their meeting notes to a &amp;quot;privilege team&amp;quot;, which assesses everything leaving Guantanamo for classified material or national security issues.&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Then in late 2017, under the Trump administration, it became clear that art was no longer being allowed out. Like lots of things in the world of Guantanamo, there was no official notification to the lawyers, no memo. Artwork was all of a sudden simply bounced back from the privilege team to the detainees.&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Keeping his art in Guantanamo would be &amp;quot;the same as keeping me here&amp;quot;, Qasim said.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;The art I made is me,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;If they keep my art here, my soul will stay here.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it really does seem that &amp;quot;the cruelty is the point&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rexpop</author><text>Haven&amp;#x27;t you encountered &amp;quot;The Banality of Evil,&amp;quot; yet? It doesn&amp;#x27;t take &amp;quot;sick fucks&amp;quot; to operate a detainment facility and&amp;#x2F;or concentration camp. The staff at these institutions are simply operating in accordance with handed-down procedure designed in abstract by remote administrators.</text></comment>
<story><title>The sudden silencing of Guantanamo&apos;s artists</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62399826</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>erdos4d</author><text>&amp;gt; Sometimes it really does seem that &amp;quot;the cruelty is the point&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;This extends very far beyond Guantanamo. I really wonder where all these sick fucks come from. I don&amp;#x27;t remember much of a psycho vibe from classmates or work colleagues. Yet the US makes them in sufficient quantity that they seem to pop up wherever authority is. Prisons, police, military, they all seem to have endless human garbage that enjoys being cruel if they can. How has this country produced these &amp;quot;people&amp;quot; and why do they achieve positions of power instead of failure?</text></item><item><author>kiwih</author><text>&amp;gt; Until the end of 2017, Guantanamo detainees were allowed to take their art with them when they were released, or give it to their lawyers to take out.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The artists could bring their work to meetings with their lawyers, who would submit it along with their meeting notes to a &amp;quot;privilege team&amp;quot;, which assesses everything leaving Guantanamo for classified material or national security issues.&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Then in late 2017, under the Trump administration, it became clear that art was no longer being allowed out. Like lots of things in the world of Guantanamo, there was no official notification to the lawyers, no memo. Artwork was all of a sudden simply bounced back from the privilege team to the detainees.&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Keeping his art in Guantanamo would be &amp;quot;the same as keeping me here&amp;quot;, Qasim said.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;The art I made is me,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;If they keep my art here, my soul will stay here.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it really does seem that &amp;quot;the cruelty is the point&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swatcoder</author><text>Well, one answer would be that there’s no need for a “psycho vibe” on the road to heartless acts. It can look a lot more like complacency.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#Banality_of_evil&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#Banali...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>