Get your Gitmo gear.
By on Jun 13th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Get your Gitmo gear.
The Washington Post’s Sleuth reports that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has a gift shop advertising its detainee operations that sells windbreakers, baseball caps, and t-shirts. According to the Post, “military base officials were thrilled to have reporters buying up goodies at the gift shop for their loved ones back home”:
The left breast of the front of the shirt is emblazoned with the words “Operation Enduring Freedom” and “JTF,” which stands for Joint Task Force. The back of the shirt, in large lettering, says “JTF GTMO” and in slightly smaller font below it, “DETAINEE OPERATIONS, U.S. NAVAL STATION, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA.”
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I woulda guessed JTF stood for
JAM THE F’CKERS
June 13th, 2008 at 11:38 amThat’s actually “Operation Enduring Freedom from Freedom”
June 13th, 2008 at 11:40 amRead Naomi Klein’s “the Shock Doctrine”. This is only the beginning.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:41 amWhy don’t you purchase the entire stock, Daryll? Then you can hand them out in lieu of paying for your Rio hookers.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:41 amDaryll, any comment on the Supreme Court decision yesterday?
June 13th, 2008 at 11:42 amDaryll Says:
I have to purchase this shirt. This is a must buy item that shows your support for our troops and this nation. God Bless America.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:40 am Recommend (0) | Report Abuse
Daryll,
Hopefully you jest?
June 13th, 2008 at 11:42 amJTF = Jail Torture Fun!
June 13th, 2008 at 11:42 amGood idea Daryll. It’ll go well with those trashy abstinance pants.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:43 amDaryll can’t comment on the Supreme Court deal. He is still training to muster and explaination of his god’s failure as to president elect Huckabee. And here I thought Gods were all powerful.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:45 amA Gitmo shirt?
I think you should get one of these instead:
John McCain - NOPE
In contrast to Obama’s campaign of optimism and hope, McCain has focused predominately on what can’t be accomplished.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:48 amDaryll’s god must have made a mistake. What the heck. What kind of god makes mistakes? A second rate one I can only assume
June 13th, 2008 at 11:50 amWell now, isn’t that just …special??
June 13th, 2008 at 11:51 amNow you know what to get for that hard to please conservative relative for the holiday season . Throw in a set of Chinese finger cuffs and your set.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:51 amDaryll Says:
Democrats, your true colors are shining thru.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:53 am
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… said the alleged “Christian” who supports torture, rendition, and unlawful indefinite detention.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:57 amDaryll : That’s actually “Operation Enduring Freedom from Muslim bondage and extremism”
Fixed.
Muslim Bondage? Gosh Daryll, did you spend six years as the captive of a cruel Muslim mistress in some extr-legal portion of the Middle East?
Or are you saying that the only thing stopping the entire US from being enslaved by Muslim extremists is a Cuban swamp and the fine men and women who serve there?
If we don’t buy these t-shirts, will we all be forced to wear Burka’s? ( Is that what your cruel doe-eyed Muslim mistress made you do?) Go on, you can tell me. I can handle the truth.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:57 amDaryll Says:
Great comment from a terror enabler.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:55 am
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… said the alleged “Christian” who supports torture, rendition, and unlawful indefinite detention.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:57 amDaryll Says:
That’s actually “Operation Enduring Freedom from Muslim bondage and extremism”
June 13th, 2008 at 11:43 am
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So in order to prevent “Muslim bondage and extremism,” we need to engage in a little “Christian bondage and extremism?”
Good plan, perv!
June 13th, 2008 at 12:00 pmNicky: Do you also like to play dress up when you play pretend?
June 13th, 2008 at 12:00 pmAre there any graphic artists out there? I think a design or two are needed for battle ribbons for those fighting the GWOT. Remember the ribbon the crew made for Mr. Roberts?
Ribbions are needed for having faced the danger of waterboarding suspects and other extreme duty assignments that brought our brave men and women into contact with these…these….these MUSLIMS.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:00 pmDaryn
June 13th, 2008 at 12:00 pmThis is just another attempt by the ignorant to get our Armed Forces tortured abroad and for creating a facility to help ruin our international reputation as a nation. Daryn the truth is shining thru.
………………………………………………. There, fixed it for U.
Per Daryll,
Detainees do not have a right to appeal their incarceration. We give them a hot and a cot. The Department of Defense will inform them when, if ever, they will be able to leave. There is alot of resourceful information at GITMO.
Umm, that’s not what the SCOTUS said.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:01 pmAre you against the rule of law in this country?
Daryll of parodyll,
This thread is not about gay sex.
Welp, at least the shirts prove there’s no torturing, correct?
Reminds me of an incident that happened when I was in college (84 or 85).
A fraternity held a party that unfortunately, resulted in a student being run over, and killed.
A select few thought it would be funny to sell T-shirts that said “I partied with the Tekes”, with a pair of tire skid marks across the lettering.
My point? Just someone trying to “lighten up” a horrific event. I didn’t agree with it then. I don’t agree with it now.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:01 pmPresident Leftside Annie needs to take action here
As president, I hereby order the immediate detention of the terrorist suspect known as “Darryl.” Said terrorist “Darryl” is to be held indefinitely - and we’ll just see how he likes it.
Terrorist Darryl, you are obviously an enemy of the Constitution, and I, President Leftside Annie, have the power (afforded to me by the USA Patriot Act) to detain you indefinitely without trial.
Perhaps, as president, I will also order an …enhanced… interrogation for you, Darryl, in order to flush out your terrorist accomplices. I’ll see to it that you have a “hot and a cot” as you put it, but that’s all. We won’t tell your dear wife where you are, nor will we provide you with an attorney.
Your protests of innocence mean nothing to us, “Darryl” as you are obviously a dangerous America-hating terrorist and as such, you deserve to be incarcerated for the rest of your unnatural life.
By order of the President -
Leftside Annie
June 13th, 2008 at 12:02 pmROFL!
When I followed the link from the Wsshpo article to the Gitmo store I got this:
There is a problem with this website’s security certificate authority
Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server
June 13th, 2008 at 12:03 pmWe recommend that you close this webpage and do not continue to this website
Good schmackdown, LH Annie!
June 13th, 2008 at 12:03 pmDaryll can you explain the failure of your god? Is your god just a screw up?
June 13th, 2008 at 12:04 pmDaryll, why are you against the rule of law in this nation?
June 13th, 2008 at 12:04 pmDoesn’t that make you a terrorist?
That’s PRESIDENT LH Annie to you, sir. ;o)
June 13th, 2008 at 12:04 pmOoops, excuse me (with deep bow) President LH Annie, ma’am…
June 13th, 2008 at 12:06 pm…And each detainee will be given a lovely gift bag with a t-shirt, hat, and windbreaker, along with a bag of their fingernails, when they are rendered back to their home countries for further torture…
June 13th, 2008 at 12:08 pmDaryll Says:
This is not torture. This is a disciplinary action for lying to our government.
SOOOO, BushCo needs to go to GTMO and be waterboarded for lying to the American people and the rest of the world. Thanx D, great idea!
June 13th, 2008 at 12:10 pmI understand the Gitmo Gift Shop rivals the Bergen-Belsen Boutique for its clever schtick items.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:14 pmOnly the extremists themselves are as worried about other extremists, who happen to disagree with them, Daryll.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:14 pmI’m happy to report that not all Christians are Faux Christians like Daryll:
‘Seven individuals from Witness Against Torture, a group protesting the denial of rights to prisoners at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were served papers by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) last week. The group of twenty-four U.S. Christians marched over 60 miles to the Naval Base in an attempt to practice the Christian act of prisoner visitation. The group camped and fasted for four days at the gate of the militarized zone while awaiting access to the base.’
June 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pmDeemed “morally correct” by whom, Terrorist Darryl?
~ President Leftside Annie
June 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pmHey daryll did I ever mention that on Sept. 11th 1973 the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of Chile which resulted in the deaths of 30 000 Chilean citizens ,after which the torturers , who had recieved their training at the school of the America’s in Georgia ,tortured up to 250 000 people in concentration camps throughout the country, including that countries current president and both her parents . Her father died during the experience.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pmBut hey they hate us for our freedoms ….don’t they ?
Fox News needs to add their crap to the selection.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pmDaryll Says:
This is not torture. This is a disciplinary action for lying to our government.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
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So we should be seeing the Halliburton employees who charged DoD thousands of dollars for cases of soda and pocketed billions of dollars in “overhead” at GTMO any day now, right?
June 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pmDaryll, why don’t you apply for a job at Gitmo–you’d be serving your President, you can get a really cool t-shirt and you know… there’s the whole bondage thing too.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pmDaryll Says:
This is not torture. This is a disciplinary action for lying to our government.
Huh? I thought these were people we picked up in Afghanistan and Iraq. When exactly did they “lie” to our government?
June 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pmAnd don’t forget, that the druggie rusher has been selling Club Gitmo shirts for a few years now.
I bet Daryll has a closet full of them! Donchya D?
June 13th, 2008 at 12:16 pmDaryll Says:
I support our laws when it is deemed morally correct.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
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Torture is never morally correct.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:17 pmHey Mary Arch Bishop romero says hello . Want some real entertainment Daryll , find the film of the school of the Americas trained El Salvadorian military shooting mourners on the steps of the cathedral during the funeral for the bishop .
June 13th, 2008 at 12:19 pmI’s a real kick and a whole lot more graphic than COPS on FOX.
Daryll, you couldn’t deem your dick as being morally correct.
So, you admit that you only follow laws selectively? That you are a seditious bastard?
We already knew that, just want your public admission of the truth.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:20 pmfreeman Says:
But hey they hate us for our freedoms ….don’t they ?
June 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
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Don’t forget - we did it so Milton Friedman and his Chicago Boys could have a complete free market ant farm to experiment with, and allow corporations to rape Chile for all they could at the expense of the Chilean people.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:21 pmDon’t ya just love it when Daryll’s mom lets him come out and play?
June 13th, 2008 at 12:22 pm“Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror”: Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
June 13th, 2008 at 12:23 pmI haven’t read The Shock Doctrine, but on first glance this doesn’t strike me as particularly scandalous; it looks like the standard stuff that service members can get at any base where they’re stationed. It doesn’t say “You catch ‘em we cool ‘em” or some such crap as that.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:23 pmleft-hack: “German detainees during WWII never had rights to counsel or any freedoms.”
Really? Wow. So I guess it;s true what they sayL “Those who fail to learn history just make shit up” .
June 13th, 2008 at 12:24 pmWHats behind door # 3? All OF LATIN AMERICA !
June 13th, 2008 at 12:24 pmDaryyll is as selective about which “Xtian” values he follows as he is about which Rules of Law he obeys.
Gotta be confusing, doesn’t it, Daryll?
June 13th, 2008 at 12:25 pmrogerse Says:
You think they had gift shops at the internment camps?.
Are you trying to say that since we screwed up once by creating internment camps that indefinite detention is okay now? I wasn’t aware that two wrongs made a right.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:25 pmToast
June 13th, 2008 at 12:28 pma complete free market ant farm to experiment with, and allow corporations to rape Chile for all they could at the expense of the Chilean people.
Hey the experiment has worked out great all over central and south America if you have light skin , the right name and are part of the 3 or 4 % who are the ruling aristocracy.
Hell torturers and murderers have prospered as well .See what an American education can do for you.
Shorter Republican:
“Take my rights! I’m too scared to be free!”
What a bunch of sissies.
What happened to the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave? Republicans have turned it into the Land of the Jailed and the Home of the Chickenhawk.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:30 pm…and finally viewers for the first 100 people who phone in their order we’ll include for free a CD of the latest hits played on Armed Forces Radio network. Favorites like, Baghdad Betty is the Gal for Me, Ode to the IED’s and I Lost My Hands in Afghanstan…
War profiteering taken to it’s ultimate conclusion.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:30 pmDid anyone else notice the finger nails of the model holding the hat? All black and blue …
Satire, methinks … to go along the with McCain’s balls … which wasn’t satire, simply pathetic.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:30 pmDaryll, you really are a hard person to figure out. You have this blind devotion to President Bush, yet you claim to all of us that you are Christian. Either you are not really enamored of Bush and his policies, or you are not a very good Christian, but you can’t be both a Bush supporter and a good Christian.
Yet you defend Bush and his actions all the time.
Daryll Says:
This is not torture. This is a disciplinary action for lying to our government.
Who says these people who were tortured lied to our government? Was this determination made in a court of law? And, as others have correctly noted, Bush lied to our government when he inflated the danger Iraq posed to us. That is an established fact, Daryll. Wouldn’t that mean that Bush should undergo the same “disciplinary action” as the prisoners who didn’t have their day in court yet?
And if you think the SCOTUS was wrong to restore the right of habeas corpus, then you do not understand the first thing about living in a nation of laws and not men. Your allegiance is to a person and not to our constitution. That is very un-American.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:31 pmBadmoodman Says:
I understand the Gitmo Gift Shop rivals the Bergen-Belsen Boutique for its clever schtick items.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:42 pmLustig ,wirtlich lustig mensch.
That’s why I’m locking him up, Wayne. He’s obviously a terrorist.
~ President Leftside Annie
June 13th, 2008 at 12:44 pmTranslation:
June 13th, 2008 at 12:44 pmWhat do you guys want to bet that this “Gitmo gear” is being manufactured/sold by a Bush Pioneer…?
June 13th, 2008 at 1:20 pm.
What’s the name of the store…
Gitmo’s Gulag Gifts?
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June 13th, 2008 at 1:37 pmThis disgusts me to much to even laugh :(
Except for the President Annie part :)~
June 13th, 2008 at 1:42 pmMax-1 Says:
What’s the name of the store…
Gitmo’s Gulag Gifts?
Bush’s Wet Dream
June 13th, 2008 at 1:49 pmMax-1 Says:
What’s the name of the store…
Gitmo’s Gulag Gifts?
Bush’s Wet Dream
June 13th, 2008 at 1:49 pmWhy, thank you, ESL - would you like to be a member of my cabinet…?
I feel the need for a few good minions today. ;o)
~ President Leftside Annie
June 13th, 2008 at 1:53 pmLeftside Annie Says:
Why, thank you, ESL - would you like to be a member of my cabinet…?
Can I be the Secretary of Kicking Nancy Pelosi’s Ass?
June 13th, 2008 at 1:55 pmI promise to be a loyal Annie apologist :)~
June 13th, 2008 at 1:56 pmPerfect, ESL! Now get out there and kick some Pelosi patooty!!
*Then* you can hump my leg. *giggle*
June 13th, 2008 at 2:02 pmLeftside Annie Says:
Perfect, ESL! Now get out there and kick some Pelosi patooty!!
*Then* you can hump my leg. *giggle*
Promises. Promises.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:26 pmthat is unspeakably perverse. Scary that there are Americans so callous and obtuse to think of such a thing or to purchase anything.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:29 pmThere are no words to describe how disgusting this is.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:51 pmSo, how many people here think that Daryll is going to be allowed any where near heaven (if it exists). I’m thinking NOT.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:53 pmI’m thinking there is a special place in hell reserved for Daryll and his ilk. He will be very happy there, he can consort with Dick and George for all eternity.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:54 pmAnd please stop by my web site to buy your Holocost commemorative shirts and hats.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:55 pmpmavrk…..pm avrk….
June 13th, 2008 at 3:48 pmCan I call evening ardvark ?
1 million dead Iraqi’s and ALL their relatives and 4 million refugeed trying to survive in neighboring countries in the Mid East tell me your outrage is a joke.
How many dead and wounded will make you feel safe again ?
Yes it was a terrible crime but I’m thinking that millions dead and displaced in a country that had ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with our 911 ( as opposed to the one we inflicted with 10 times the casualties on Chile in 1973 )is a several times GREATER crime.
Daryll Says:
This is not torture. This is a disciplinary action for lying to our government
Using that logic we get to send Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, Powell, Rice, etc. etc. etc. to Gitmo ?
BTW - about post 87. Yes my sarcasm is over the top to compare Gitmo to the Holocost. Yes the scale of the Nazi death camps (for Jews and also other “undesirables”) is many magnitudes of scale bigger.
But the crassness of clothing celebrating them is extremely callous in both cases.
June 13th, 2008 at 3:49 pmpmavrk Says:
Yeah right pluege. Cutting off the heads of innocent citizens, like your hero’s in Al Queda, is not callous or perverse at all. But selling gear is.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
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Al-Qa’ida is a terrorist organization that uses murder and torture and propaganda to promote their misguided causes. I don’t pay taxes to al-Qa’ida. I don’t vote for the leadership of al-Qa’ida. I don’t have any say whatsoever in what al-Qa’ida or its members do.
The United States, on the other hand, is the military and economic leader of the free world, whose founding documents are still viewed around the world as beacons for democratic governance and the rule of law. I pay taxes to my country, and vote for its leaders (I assume), and I (presumably) have a say in what my country does.
I expect my country to behave a bit better than al-Qa’ida. I really don’t think it’s too much to ask for my country not to torture, not to murder innocent people, and not to crassly promote either of these with GTMO t-shirts.
June 13th, 2008 at 3:52 pm911 1973 the USA overthrows the democratically elected government of chile , resulting in the deaths of 30 000 civilians including it’s president and the detainment and torture of upwards of 250 000 others in concentration camps .
June 13th, 2008 at 3:55 pmGo team Go !!!!!
June 13th, 2008 at 3:57 pmThe keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities: Sophocles
June 13th, 2008 at 4:02 pmSo do the detainees make the crap or is that done in China? So I was thinking the shirt and cap along with my abstinance paints and of course my flag pin and I am steppin’ out!
June 13th, 2008 at 4:50 pmHi pmavrck
June 13th, 2008 at 6:04 pmHope this finds you well. I just wanted to invite you up to the Cheney/Chinese drilling thread. I think you may have much to offer. Hope to see ya there
Dad-burn-it TP, my comment has been awaiting moderation for so long it could compete with McOldtimer when it comes to gathering cobwebs.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:54 pmEvening aardvark you seem to know alot about prisons is that where you got your education ? Let me help with that. On the subject of terrorism :
June 13th, 2008 at 9:02 pm1953 CIA overthrows mossadeq in Iran in order to help BP continue to control the oil there.
1954 CIA overthrows the democratically elected government of Arbenz in Guatemala 200 000 killed.
1963 CIA assassinates pres. Diem of south Vietnam 4 million die over the next 12 years at the hands of the US military.
1973 CIA overthrows the democratically elected government of Chile 30 000 die 250 000 tortured in concentration camps.
1977 CIA backs military government in El Salvador , 70 000 die including 4 American nuns and Arch bishop Romero.
1980’s CIA Trains Osama Bin Laden contributes 3 billion to his insurgency.
1981 CIA and the Reagan government back the contra’s and death squads in Nicaragua ,30 000 die.
1982 billions to saddam hussein in Iraq in order that he attacks Iran, 1 million die.
1983 US gives Iran weapons to kill Iranians.
1989 Manuel Noriega , a CIA agent and president of Panama disobeys Washington , US invades 3000 die.
This is just a small sample but as Glenn beck that paradigm of virtue said on CNN we do have a reputation of ” being in bed with brutal dictatorships like the people in Saudi Arabia.
I am deeply disturbed.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:43 pmWe’re SELLING the destruction of human rights now?
Waaait. I forgot, we pay people to do that in a joyful manner(*cough* mercenaries *cough*), it’s not that big of a step, really, I guess. But somehow it’s even more sickening to me.