- When John was taken by those Marines and stripped naked and put through that ordeal and they photographed him naked. Bound, his eyes were covered. His ankles and wrists were bound and he was tied to a stretcher in the desert in the winter in Afghanistan and photographed like that, that photograph appeared in every newspaper in the United States. And when I first saw that photograph I still feel shocked by it. I can't believe that a person was put through that by American troops. It just shocks me. And it is my son, of course. But when I saw that photograph, I thought to myself that people in America will not tolerate this. People will rise up and demand that this boy be released from prison. That's what I thought. I thought people in America will never tolerate this kind of horrible human rights abuse of one of our own citizens and our own people by our military. And what I find discouraging or what's the word, really kind of unbelievable is that that didn't happen. That, even though that photograph it appeared in literally every newspaper and every news magazine in the United States there's not a ripple of objection to that treatment of my son from any minister or priest or imam or rabbi or civil rights leader or politician or ordinary people. It was just accepted that that's the way we treat terrorists suspects. And I find that really deeply troubling that everyone in America, from the most powerful people down to the ordinary people seems to have accepted that that's an acceptable way to treat a human being when they're suspected of any sort of terrorism involvement. I think that's really troubling.