DeSantis was at Gitmo and watched detainees being force-fed
and outlined in this article from NY DAILY NEWS with this headline:
“Showtime pulled ‘Vice’ episode about Ron DeSantis at Guantanamo Bay without explanation”
NEW YORK — Ron
DeSantis appears to have been canceled — by Showtime. The Florida governor and
GOP presidential hopeful was to be the subject of an episode of the premium
cable channel’s newsmagazine series “Vice.” Promoted to premiere on May 28, the
show didn’t air as scheduled; previously aired programming reportedly ran in
its place.
No explanation was
given, and a spokesperson for Showtime told The Daily News: “We don’t comment on scheduling decisions. The
Gitmo Candidate & Chipping Away was the title of the half-hour episode of
the series, which has prided itself on delivering immersive reporting from the
frontlines of global conflict, civil uprisings and more.”
The episode’s description teased potentially explosive material about DeSantis.
According to The Hollywood Reporter it detailed allegations from former Guantanamo Bay
detainees that he witnessed the force-feeding, which BTW has been condemned by the United Nations as torture (re: NY TIMES) during his past service
as a Navy JAG officer at the Naval base in Cuba.
MY NOTE INSERTED: For decades, the international community including the International Red Cross, the World Medical Association, and the United Nations have recognized the right of prisoners of sound mind to go on a hunger strike.
Force-feeding has been labeled a violation on the ban of cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment.
The World Medical Association (WMA) holds that it is unethical for a doctor to participate in force-feeding. Force-feeding violates international law.
DeSantis has consistently argued for Gitmo to
remain open and spoken against the release of prisoners, even those held for
years without formal charge.
Former detainee Mansoor Adayfi previously revealed during a November 2022 podcast interview that DeSantis looked on with amusement as he and others were force-fed through a nasal feeding tube pushed down their throats.
Adayfi, Yemen-born detainee at the time was also known as Abdul Rahman Ahmed, was released after 14 years in 2016 without charges. He detailed the experience during a discussion with U.S. Army veteran and anti-war activist Michael Prysner.
Adayfi claimed about the incident: “Ron DeSantis was there and
watching us. We were crying, screaming. We were tied to the feeding chair and
that guy; he was watching that. He was laughing basically when they used to
feed us, because … our stomach cannot hold this amount of Ensure. They used to pour Ensure,
one can after another, one can after another. So, when he approached me, I said
this is the way we are treated. He said, ‘You should start to eat.’ …I threw up
on his face. Literally on his face.”
FYI: DeSantis joined the Navy in 2004 and was stationed in
Guantanamo and Iraq before serving as a special assistant U.S. attorney in FL until
2010. He was born in Jacksonville, FL. He is a Harvard Law School alum, and he served
in the Navy Reserve until 2019.
A “Vice” rep told The
Hollywood Reporter that materials about that episode were scrubbed from
Showtime’s website and press portal saying: “As with all current affairs
programming there can be scheduling changes, and we are very much still in
discussion about the scheduling of this episode. We are proud of our reporting
and of our continuing partnership with Showtime.”
My 2 Cents: I can’t even image DeSantis as President let alone being CINC (Commander in Chief) not with his outlandish and crazy thinking, ideas, and governing style.
It would be a national disgrace and dishonor as the above article shows. It also seems to me that Showtime wanted to “more or less protect” DeSantis by not showing that “Vice” segment mentioned above (at least in my view).
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