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Louie Gohmert: There is another severe form of punishment when such an assault is committed on our guards at Guantanamo, which…

On the recordNovember 30, 2010
There is another severe form of punishment when such an assault is committed on our guards at Guantanamo, which apparently is pretty customary down there, of throwing urine or feces on our guards. They have to come up with creative ways to do that, and do so. One of the other ways--and it's the only other way in addition to taking some of their outdoor exercise time down to 2 hours. The other thing that they have been known to do in order to really punish them, to actually torture them, is to take away some of their movie-watching time during the day. It's just devastating, you know, to the Guantanamo detainees to have some of their movie-watching privileges taken away because they threw feces or urine on one of our gallant servicemen or - women. You've got to take away some of their movie-watching. It really teaches them a lesson. It just shows them we're not going to be messed with.
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Nov 30, 2010

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Gohmert discusses the treatment of Guantanamo detainees and the consequences for assaults on guards.

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