Comments on: A Virtual Visit to a Detention Center http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/10/07/a_virtual_visit/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dr Amonymous http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/10/07/a_virtual_visit/comment-page-1/#comment-217761 Dr Amonymous Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:54:53 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5448#comment-217761 <p>Thank you for this post-it's really great to see it here. I've been to a "detention centre" in another life to visit a Bangladeshi father of three that was being held. Because most ICE facilities are overfilled, they move people to county jails, so I went to a county jail in New Jersey.</p> <p>I had met his family earlier - 18/19 year old daughter had to give up the chance to be a doctor because she's undocumented; wife had become depressed and crying all the time with husband in jail; two small children as well - 7 and 9 maybe? Delightful. A bit traumatized.</p> <p>It was, well, sad.</p> <p>But meeting him was another thing altogether. He didn't look like the pictures in his house - he was much skinnier- gaunt even. And I saw him through glass. I said a few things I shouldn't have, all riled up in pseudoactivist frenzy, and he firmly corrected me. He asked me to look after his daughter.</p> <p>That's detention. A multibillion dollar industry to destroy people's lives.</p> Thank you for this post-it’s really great to see it here. I’ve been to a “detention centre” in another life to visit a Bangladeshi father of three that was being held. Because most ICE facilities are overfilled, they move people to county jails, so I went to a county jail in New Jersey.

I had met his family earlier – 18/19 year old daughter had to give up the chance to be a doctor because she’s undocumented; wife had become depressed and crying all the time with husband in jail; two small children as well – 7 and 9 maybe? Delightful. A bit traumatized.

It was, well, sad.

But meeting him was another thing altogether. He didn’t look like the pictures in his house – he was much skinnier- gaunt even. And I saw him through glass. I said a few things I shouldn’t have, all riled up in pseudoactivist frenzy, and he firmly corrected me. He asked me to look after his daughter.

That’s detention. A multibillion dollar industry to destroy people’s lives.

]]> By: Egadsman http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2008/10/07/a_virtual_visit/comment-page-1/#comment-217752 Egadsman Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:05:32 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5448#comment-217752 <p>Basically if its not a first person shooter where you're blowing away anyone on Guantanamo, the only people that will play this "game" are people who are already signed on to the cause. That's the sad truth. That may not be human rights friendly, but thats the state of pc/video games today.</p> Basically if its not a first person shooter where you’re blowing away anyone on Guantanamo, the only people that will play this “game” are people who are already signed on to the cause. That’s the sad truth. That may not be human rights friendly, but thats the state of pc/video games today.

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