Robots Act Out Guantanamo Waterboarding Torture

[PatSeg]

<There's a new exhibit at Coney Island that's fun for the whole family: the "Waterboard Thrill Ride." Greeted by Spongebob exuding “It don’t Gitmo better!" you walk in to peer through bars at dude in dark sweats leaning over another guy in an orange suit, his face wrapped in a towel. Slip a dollar into the machine, and for 15 seconds, "Dark Hood" pours water into Orange Jumpsuit's nose and mouth while he convulses.>




This is disturbing on so many levels.

[Dogtown]

1. I'm afraid this is *not* a protest

Have our people so lost the way that ongoing torture is a joke, a fucking "amusement"?



I grow more and more detached.

[PatSeg]

3. It is like some strange futuristic movie

Why on earth would people pay to see something like that?

[Dogtown]

9. Lots of reasons

Support for the message.

Kid-dares.

Curiosity.

Morbidity.


Not all "good" motives, but if the intent is to educate, I'm all for it.

[PatSeg]

10. I'm not sure how well it will educate though

There have always been people who go out of their way to see something shocking and disturbing ("curiosity" and "morbidity") and this sort of thing just feeds that. I'm inclined to believe such an exhibit will primarily draw those kinds of people. And the only way such people would become "educated" is if it happened to them.

[Dogtown]

11. A valid point

but it is *something* at any rate.

Perhaps some impressionables will be dared to look, though, and profit thereby.

I hasten to add that I hope they check ages for this exhibit/entertainment. Sounds to be a bit much for youngsters.

[PatSeg]

12. I commend the intent

Good point about checking ages. Kids tend to gravitate to that kind of stuff. I remember when I was a kid and we used to go to Riverview (like Coney Island, but in Chicago). Of course we wanted to go to the weirdest, oddest shows there. I only remember going to a "Freak Show" once and can't imagine what the adults were thinking (believe it was an aunt or uncle at the time).

[annabanana]

4. It is a protest... albeit a very disturbing one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3742722

[PatSeg]

6. It is disturbing

and I'm afraid a lot of people will pay their buck for the thrill not out of protest.

[Dogtown]

7. Thanks for that link

Thoroughly approve! disturbing, graphic: just what it takes to wake-up the somnolent!

[Dogtown]

8. Thanks for that link, annabanana!

Thoroughly approve! Disturbing, graphic: just what it takes to wake-up the somnolent!

[TankLV]

2. oye....vey...

and this is allowed in a public place?!?!

how sad...

[PatSeg]

5. We've become such an entertainment-based society,

people are always looking for a new thrill every moment.