Subj : Re: BSG To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Tue Sep 27 2005 15:31:17 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Nick wrote in news:Xns96DE60B297563ndtcm@ 204.153.244.170: > John I wrote: > >> Nick wrote: >>> TNW7Z7Z7Z12345 wrote: >>>> >>>> Be sure to read the URL John posted. http://tinyurl.com/8ko7r. It >>>> is now obvious that this goes way beyond Abu Graib - that it was >>>> widespread and that the military is still trying to cover it up. >>> >>> >>> A lot of that is really bad but some of these things I look at and >>> think, so what? For example: "Detainees were also stacked, fully >>> clothed, in human pyramids and forced to hold five-gallon water jugs >>> with arms outstretched or do jumping jacks until they passed out, >>> the report says." >>> >>> This stuff looks like really mild fraternity initiation rituals or >>> even high-school football practice. >>> Breaking bones and beatings are one thing, but this other stuff is >>> laughable. >>> >> >> Trun off Rush radio. It is a proven fact that it will actually make >> you dumber. > > > So you have been listening to it, eh? > > Actually, I don't listen to political radio. > But I did go to catholic school and military basic training and have had > to do similar things to these. > We did the same sort of things for fun training as well, it's not the actual exercise but the way in that its done. For example if you are told that "the first person to put their arms down is going to have to do say 50 push ups" is a lot different to "the first person to put his arms down is going to get seven shades of living shit beaten out of him by Sargent Bubba here". Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .