Appearently Candace Jones thinks OUR soldiers are torturing prisoners.
Our drug fund money is paying for this womans education.
Thank you Bill Smith.
Bill do you think OUR military people are torturing prisoners?
Is that what they teach at the Citidal?
What those people did at Abu Ghraib is nothing compared to the beheading of Nick Berg.
You be the judge:
It's Torture 101 at UGA
Speech communication class
University of Georgia student Candace Jones participates in a sensory deprivation exercise as students Ryan Wolfe and Sabra Stratford read torture facts last week at the Tate Student Center.Kelly Lambert / Staff
By Rebecca Quigley rebecca.quigley@onlineathens.com Story updated at 11:12 PM on Wednesday, April 25, 2007
A pair of messengers in black prisoner hoods silently cruised the University of Georgia Tate Plaza on Tuesday, beckoning students to experience what happens to prisoners at overseas detention centers.
The men handed out fliers advertising "Torture 101" - an exhibit in the Tate Center Gallery that UGA speech communication students created as part of a final project for their "Rhetoric of Torture" course.
"From a practical standpoint, I wanted (the class) to put together some kind of public project that would be educational," said the class' instructor Marita Gronnvoll, a fourth-year graduate student.
The seven-part exhibit included a "sensory deprivation" station where participants could experience a mild form of torture where a prisoner is blindfolded and forced to listen to abrasive heavy metal music through a set of earphones.
Visitors also watched student-made videos of man-on-the-street interviews about U.S. interrogation methods and a mock instructional video about how to carry out extraordinary rendition in secret.
The class focused the demonstration on the 2004 tortures at the U.S. detention center in Abu Ghraib because more details and images have been made public about the torture there than any other interrogation center, Gronnvoll said.
Speech communication graduate students Jon Hoffman and Rebecca Kuehl stopped by to check out their peers' work.
"I feel like I'm a relatively observant news watcher but to see it all in one place is disturbing," Hoffman said.
While some types of interrogation might be appropriate, "there's just gotta be a line you draw," Hoffman said.
Kuehl was amazed at the man-on-the-street video in which an interviewer asked people hanging out on College Avenue about U.S. military officers torturing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2004.
Interviewers asked: What is Abu Ghraib?; What is the Bush administration's position on torture?; What is extraordinary rendition?
Many of the people in the video couldn't answer any of the questions and one man jokingly said that "extraordinary rendition" is a cover band's version of a Led Zeppelin song.
The interviews made Kuehl realize how people don't know much about what's in the news and aren't outraged at the human rights violations going on around the world, she said.
"I am disappointed in the American people," Kuehl said.
But at the beginning of the semester, even many students in the class had the same response as the people in the street interviews, said senior Caroline Little.
As the most powerful nation in the world, people look to the U.S. to set "a good example in the world," Little said.
Some people responded to the students' demonstration as leftist or biased but "it's important to stimulate their thoughts about (torture) ... it's about holding officials responsible," she said. "We were trying to make it as factual as possible."
Even though other countries allow extreme forms of torture, U.S. officials have been hypocritical because they claim not to sanction torture as a form of interrogation while allowing it to happen, Little said.
"We're setting a bad example," she said.
Gronnvoll hopes that visitors left the exhibit with the understanding that torture is neither a liberal or a conservative issue, but a human rights issue, she said.
"As citizens we have a responsibility to ask ourselves how far we are willing to allow our representatives to go under the guise of protecting us," Gronnvoll wrote in an e-mail.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on 042507
Click here to return to story:http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/042507/uganews_20070425062.shtml
Speech communication class
University of Georgia student Candace Jones participates in a sensory deprivation exercise as students Ryan Wolfe and Sabra Stratford read torture facts last week at the Tate Student Center.Kelly Lambert / Staff
By Rebecca Quigley rebecca.quigley@onlineathens.com Story updated at 11:12 PM on Wednesday, April 25, 2007
A pair of messengers in black prisoner hoods silently cruised the University of Georgia Tate Plaza on Tuesday, beckoning students to experience what happens to prisoners at overseas detention centers.
The men handed out fliers advertising "Torture 101" - an exhibit in the Tate Center Gallery that UGA speech communication students created as part of a final project for their "Rhetoric of Torture" course.
"From a practical standpoint, I wanted (the class) to put together some kind of public project that would be educational," said the class' instructor Marita Gronnvoll, a fourth-year graduate student.
The seven-part exhibit included a "sensory deprivation" station where participants could experience a mild form of torture where a prisoner is blindfolded and forced to listen to abrasive heavy metal music through a set of earphones.
Visitors also watched student-made videos of man-on-the-street interviews about U.S. interrogation methods and a mock instructional video about how to carry out extraordinary rendition in secret.
The class focused the demonstration on the 2004 tortures at the U.S. detention center in Abu Ghraib because more details and images have been made public about the torture there than any other interrogation center, Gronnvoll said.
Speech communication graduate students Jon Hoffman and Rebecca Kuehl stopped by to check out their peers' work.
"I feel like I'm a relatively observant news watcher but to see it all in one place is disturbing," Hoffman said.
While some types of interrogation might be appropriate, "there's just gotta be a line you draw," Hoffman said.
Kuehl was amazed at the man-on-the-street video in which an interviewer asked people hanging out on College Avenue about U.S. military officers torturing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2004.
Interviewers asked: What is Abu Ghraib?; What is the Bush administration's position on torture?; What is extraordinary rendition?
Many of the people in the video couldn't answer any of the questions and one man jokingly said that "extraordinary rendition" is a cover band's version of a Led Zeppelin song.
The interviews made Kuehl realize how people don't know much about what's in the news and aren't outraged at the human rights violations going on around the world, she said.
"I am disappointed in the American people," Kuehl said.
But at the beginning of the semester, even many students in the class had the same response as the people in the street interviews, said senior Caroline Little.
As the most powerful nation in the world, people look to the U.S. to set "a good example in the world," Little said.
Some people responded to the students' demonstration as leftist or biased but "it's important to stimulate their thoughts about (torture) ... it's about holding officials responsible," she said. "We were trying to make it as factual as possible."
Even though other countries allow extreme forms of torture, U.S. officials have been hypocritical because they claim not to sanction torture as a form of interrogation while allowing it to happen, Little said.
"We're setting a bad example," she said.
Gronnvoll hopes that visitors left the exhibit with the understanding that torture is neither a liberal or a conservative issue, but a human rights issue, she said.
"As citizens we have a responsibility to ask ourselves how far we are willing to allow our representatives to go under the guise of protecting us," Gronnvoll wrote in an e-mail.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on 042507
Click here to return to story:http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/042507/uganews_20070425062.shtml
6 comments:
What a piece of work, ye heard??
Is this young woman the daughter of Artie or his brother, the doctor?
If either, does she really have a finacial need for an illegal scholarship, or does BTW have a need to buy more black votes with drug money?
I wonder how our Marines on base feel about it. I know one is really man.
None of the prisoner at Abu Ghraib were tortured or killed not one death.
They were however humiliated, and I don't think the U.S. has a policy on humiliating.
Once again Bill thanks. This one was to easy.
the 667,000 was a hard one to figure out, but I did and sent that info on to the DOJ.
Candace isn't the daughter or Marvin or Artie Jones. This is BTW attempt at getting the black votes.
"Appearently Candace Jones thinks OUR soldiers are torturing prisoners."
Brilliant...if in fact the article had voiced Candace's opinion of the experience. Is this the only "dirt" you could find on Candace Jones...this unwarranted assumption?
Candace was not even a part of the class that put this exhibit together. She was merely asked to participate in a sensory deprivatioin exercise. Never was she quoted as saying anything about our soldiers torturing prisoners.
As for the black vote theory, get real people. Candace Jones received the scholarship because she was qualified. Check the criteria for the scholarship. While you're at it, take a look at the previous recipients.
Clearly your real issue is with Bill Smith and the scholarship foundation. Direct your frustrations there and there alone because I guarantee that if you take the time to find out who Candace Jones really is, you'd be ashamed that you ever made such a claim. Take it from someone who knows!
Yours truly,
Candace Jones
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