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Gitmo good life: U.S. spends millions on landscaping, art classes for terror detainees
Thanks to a multimillion-dollar federal contract, Guantanamo Bay prisoners can enroll in seminars to learn all about basic landscaping and pruning, calligraphy and Microsoft PowerPoint while the U.S. figures out what to do with them.
Prisoners also can get in touch with their artistic sides.
“At a minimum, the art seminar shall include water color painting, charcoal sketching, Arabic calligraphy, acrylic painting and pastel painting,” contract records reviewed by The Washington Times state.
The documents surfaced last week in a U.S. Court of Federal Claims lawsuit stemming from a dispute over a more than $5 million contract to provide library and seminar services to detainees at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The papers offer a glimpse at just how military detainees can pass the time while officials decide their fates.
President Obama is pushing once again to make good on his promise to shut down the prison, hoping to make it easier to transfer detainees out of the facility as part of the upcoming debate on the annual defense policy bill.
He will face strong opposition from congressional Republicans who argue that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility remains the best place to hold suspected terrorists
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Jerry Manderin
November 19th, 2013
What’s next for these hell bound animals?
Pony rides?
Unruly Refugee
November 19th, 2013
That sucks. Just one Yoko Ono record would provide all the entertainment and activities they deserve. They already have the loud speaker system.
I’ll buy the record.
hanoverfist
November 19th, 2013
Where is the “seminar” on turning big rocks into little rocks?
Toenex
November 19th, 2013
do they use a lot of red paint?
thirdtwin
November 19th, 2013
.eanwhile, catered halal meals for Tsarnaev…
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/111813-679622-boston-bomber-tsarnaev-aclu-torture-islamic-correct-meals.htm
Unruly Refugee
November 19th, 2013
thirdtwin, that sucks. But they are just treating him like the devout muslim that he obviously is.
thirdtwin
November 19th, 2013
Unruly, no music. Haram. Notice they don’t offer piano lessons.
And you can be sure the marines are not allowed to crank up their own tunes.
Unruly Refugee
November 19th, 2013
thirdtwin, Yoko is not music. Nobody will argue with that, for sure. They could use it for anger management.
Burr&Buckle
November 19th, 2013
After reading this I fail to see how the government putting us all into camps is a bad thing.
This extremist needs me some pastel art classes and some zumba time.
qzy
November 19th, 2013
If you’re going to piss away 5 million dollars, wouldn’t it make sense to piss it away on American children, who never murdered anybody? I mean, just for “kicks and giggles”, that would be enough money for every State in the Union to have a science-fair with a grand-prize of $50,000.
For $1000, I can offer an alternative 80 hour/week seminar.(I’m assuming that $1000 is enough to buy shovels for everyone. If not, too bad. Some of them will just have to use their hands.) It’s called, “Take the Dirt out of the Hole, then put the Dirt back in the Hole. Repeat…”
Unruly Refugee
November 19th, 2013
qzy, i like that idea.
“That ditch is Boss Kean’s ditch and I told him that dirt in it is your dirt. What’s your dirt doing in his ditch?”
Mohammed's pink swastika
November 19th, 2013
The only thing that the Guantanamo detainees should ever be listening to, is a bullet.
Dave
November 19th, 2013
WHO THINKS THIS SHIT UP??!?!?!?
OneLastTime
November 19th, 2013
Relax, Obama just wants his prisoners to get in touch with their feminine side.
nocommie
November 19th, 2013
I would like to send them a care package!Maybe some bacon scented deodorant?
Buffalobob.
November 19th, 2013
I’ll bet that those green peacnicks that were arrested in Russia and sent north to Siberia are having second thoughts. Imagine them finding out about club gitmo. They might want to change their career path from eco terrorist to just plain terrorists.
Mary Jane Anklestraps
November 19th, 2013
So they do this all week, then they read their little anti-bacon books and it deletes all memory of their ‘enlightening’. Great idea.
They’re asking serial killers and suicide bombers to have empathy and tolerance to others. Their pea brain isn’t wired like that. Put the animals down and quit wasting my money.
Anonymous
November 19th, 2013
The bobsled run is being finished as we speak.
thirdtwin
November 19th, 2013
Anonymous, do they have a roller coaster and log ride?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-HxK8yRYna8&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-HxK8yRYna8
qzy
November 19th, 2013
What does a guy have to do to get the Federal Government to pay for his charcoal drawing classes?
Hide bombs in food markets, apparently….
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