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Tavarious Jackson

(1,595 posts)
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 01:32 PM Oct 2017

JOHN KELLY: THE FACTS, He's been dirt bag for years.

As the General in charge of the Guantanamo Bay Detention facility, Kelly publicly criticized efforts to close Guantanamo (Source) and was accused by Obama Administration officials of working to undermine the President’s efforts to close the facility. (Source)
Opposed and publicly criticized the integration of women into military ground combat units, arguing it would lead to lower standards. (Source)
Defended the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques”, such as waterboarding and rectal feeding. Kelly went on to dismiss the criticisms of human rights groups as “foolishness”. (Source)
Testified in support of an officer caught urinating on talibani corpses. (Source)
Supports the imprisonment of terror suspects without trial. (Source)
Criticised by Amnesty International for his “unsafe and inhumane” treatment (Source) of Guantanamo detainees on hunger strike to protest their imprisonment. (Source)
Supports the war on drugs and opposes legalization or decriminalization of any drugs, including marijuana. (Source)
A proponent of border security, Kelly believes that “no wall will work by itself” and has warned about the “existential threat” that unchecked migration poses for the nation. (Source)

https://www.aclu.org/other/john-kelly-facts

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JOHN KELLY: THE FACTS, He's been dirt bag for years. (Original Post) Tavarious Jackson Oct 2017 OP
If a person works in that WH, that person cant be a good, intelligent person Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #1
John Kelly was in favor of RECTAL FEEDING of prisoners at Guantanamo bay. Tavarious Jackson Oct 2017 #2
I think he could be tried in international court for war crimes ProudLib72 Oct 2017 #5
Yes, I remember hearing of these sort of things back in 2003-04 Tavarious Jackson Oct 2017 #6
With Kelly's horrible record, Trump knew what he was doing in bringing him into riversedge Oct 2017 #3
Hey, I wonder if ELECTIONS have consequences? I wonder if Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #4
I don't know what you mean? Tavarious Jackson Oct 2017 #7
Yes, I did not know about Kelly's record but I knew something Tavarious Jackson Oct 2017 #8
And more here RandomAccess Oct 2017 #9
 

Tavarious Jackson

(1,595 posts)
2. John Kelly was in favor of RECTAL FEEDING of prisoners at Guantanamo bay.
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 01:41 PM
Oct 2017

That part in the article made me sick!

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
5. I think he could be tried in international court for war crimes
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 01:50 PM
Oct 2017

Rectal feeding and hydrating, waterboarding, rape and sodomy. It's all torture, and he oversaw it. You do realize that "in favor of" means it was happening. Who knows what else these perverted people got up to?

 

Tavarious Jackson

(1,595 posts)
6. Yes, I remember hearing of these sort of things back in 2003-04
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 02:26 PM
Oct 2017

He is not a guardian of democracy as some thought. He won't protect the USA from Trump. He is one of them.

riversedge

(70,218 posts)
3. With Kelly's horrible record, Trump knew what he was doing in bringing him into
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 01:41 PM
Oct 2017

the WH. Two peas in a pod.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
4. Hey, I wonder if ELECTIONS have consequences? I wonder if
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 01:43 PM
Oct 2017

running off at the mouth about this or that has bad consequences?

I think everybody knows what I mean.

 

Tavarious Jackson

(1,595 posts)
7. I don't know what you mean?
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 02:29 PM
Oct 2017

Please explain. Trump won by 70,000 electoral votes. There were a lot of forces against us.

 

Tavarious Jackson

(1,595 posts)
8. Yes, I did not know about Kelly's record but I knew something
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 02:30 PM
Oct 2017

was fishing when I heard Bannon approved, and Steve Miller is still there.

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