Lakemacher, Daniel - short clip - IronyBehindTheWire
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| - | Personally, I ended up feeling so depressed | 0:00 |
| and so angry by the whole situation. | 0:04 | |
| It wasn't in the same threatening way | 0:08 | |
| in which it was made out from Fort Lewis, | 0:12 | |
| but it was still, I've described it multiple times, | 0:15 | |
| it was just the most hate-filled place that I've ever been. | 0:18 | |
| Like, there was something that almost | 0:23 | |
| felt palpably different when you went behind the wire, | 0:25 | |
| and it was aggravating because it seemed like | 0:29 | |
| there was no point to what was going on there. | 0:35 | |
| My perspective is now very different | 0:40 | |
| than it was at that point in time. | 0:42 | |
| At that point in time, | 0:44 | |
| and this sounds absolutely horrible, | 0:45 | |
| but in accepting, hook, line, and sinker, | 0:48 | |
| everything that they had said about these guys, | 0:52 | |
| it seemed like the amount of money and time and frustration | 0:55 | |
| that's being wasted down here, | 1:00 | |
| if these guys are so horrible, | 1:02 | |
| why aren't they just executed? | 1:03 | |
| Instead of us playing these games | 1:06 | |
| and these elaborate facilities, | 1:07 | |
| like, Camp Five and Camp Six, | 1:12 | |
| you know, you get these air locking doors and chambers. | 1:14 | |
| I mean, it was like something out of, like, | 1:17 | |
| a James Bond movie. | 1:19 | |
| And I was left, like, questioning, "For what?" | 1:21 | |
| Like, "Millions of dollars is clearly | 1:24 | |
| "being poured into this, | 1:25 | |
| "these guys are the scum of the earth, | 1:27 | |
| "they wanna kill, why are we going to all this trouble? | 1:28 | |
| "Why am I going out and asking this terrorist how he feels?" | 1:30 | |
| It just seemed like such a mixed message | 1:36 | |
| between, you know, the unspoken "Hate these guys, | 1:40 | |
| "hate these guys, hate these guys," and then, | 1:44 | |
| "We are providing the highest level of medical care | 1:49 | |
| "and mental healthcare," and everything else. | 1:52 | |
| And it's like, this doesn't add up. | 1:54 | |
| And like, internally, | 1:57 | |
| that just caused so much frustration and anger for me, | 1:59 | |
| and it was a lot easier to focus that on them | 2:01 | |
| than it was to focus it on something | 2:06 | |
| that I was actually a part of. | 2:09 |
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