Gitmo Detainees to Get Culture Classes and Movie Nights

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 02:31:00 PM EST
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Changes are coming to Guantanamo and closure isn't one of them yet. The detainees will be provided culture classes for intellectual stimulation, movie nights and more.

Prison camp staff will soon start offering art and geology classes to long-held war-on-terrorism detainees....Plans include hand-held Game Boy-like electronic games to circulate through the cells, newspapers from Cairo, more ''movie nights'' featuring videotaped sports and expanded lessons in English as a second language.

....''We want to keep their brains stimulated. We're not here to give degrees,'' says Zak, an Arab American who serves as the prison camps' cultural advisor, a secular job. ``Once they are engaged and busy, they leave the guards alone.''

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Gitmo Detainees to Get Culture Classes and Movie Nights | 12 comments (12 topical)

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Gee, it's like never ending camp (none / 0) (#1)
by Militarytracy on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 12:38:33 PM EST

: or (none / 0) (#2)
by Jeralyn on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 12:46:23 PM EST

Never-Never land. You never get out.

this reads like something found in The Onion (none / 0) (#3)
by byteb on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 02:38:00 PM EST

Suggestion for movie night: (none / 0) (#4)
by oculus on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 02:58:46 PM EST

Charles Kaufmann's Synecdoche New York with Arabic subtitles. The prisoners will be so busy scratching their heads they won't cause a bit of trouble.

Forget torture, just make them sit through (none / 0) (#5)
by andgarden on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 03:26:21 PM EST

The Flying Dutchman. (Sorry oculus).

Ooh. Low blow. Dutchman is (5.00 / 1) (#6)
by oculus on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 03:28:27 PM EST

a wonderful opera, despite being composed by Wagner.


Snore. . . (none / 0) (#7)
by andgarden on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 03:29:35 PM EST

I suspect your days at the opera (none / 0) (#8)
by oculus on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 03:31:38 PM EST

may have preceded supertitles. Much better if you have a clue what is happening, although, not so much in some operas. For example: Lucia.


No, I had subtitles (none / 0) (#9)
by andgarden on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 03:32:37 PM EST

I saw it at the met 8ish years ago. Boring as all h*ll.


: Can't say I didn't try. (5.00 / 2) (#10)
by oculus on Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 03:35:45 PM EST

I love Wagner (none / 0) (#12)
by CST on Mon Nov 24, 2008 at 12:11:48 PM EST

Despite hating him at the same time. It's hard/weird to seperate someone's art from the rest of them.

It's like watching Mel Gibson movies or Seinfeld episodes. I'll never be able to see William Wallace or Kramer the same way again - but I still enjoy the movies/shows.


I hope they ain't teaching... (none / 0) (#11)
by kdog on Mon Nov 24, 2008 at 09:21:56 AM EST

classic American culture, the prisoners would soon realize our classic culture does not allow for us to lock them up the way we have. They might revolt!

As for movie night, how about an "Escape from Alcatraz" and "The Shawshank Redemption" double feature:)