Inane Ramblings of an Over Caffinated Mind
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Give Me a Break!Psychologist: I failed England
01:17 AM CDT on Saturday, September 24, 2005
Associated Press
FORT HOOD, Texas – A West Virginia school psychologist said Friday that he realized he had failed Lynndie England when he saw the Army private posing in prisoner abuse photos at Abu Ghraib.
Mr. Denne's testimony supported Pfc. England's core defense that she was overly compliant and she did what her soldier boyfriend, Pvt. Charles Graner, told her to do.
Of Course it’s not her fault. Nothing is ever anyone’s fault anymore. It’s the TV…no, no…it’s the radio programs…damn it; I tell you it’s really the aliens that are to blame for all the wrong in this world. I swear!
Since when is “overly compliant” a defense for humiliating another human being who is in your care and at your mercy? If the “I was only doing what I was told” type of strategy didn’t work for the Nazi’s during the Nuremberg Trials, do you really think that it's going to hold any water 60 years later?! Yes, I do realize there is a large difference between systematically executing and enslaving millions of people versus torturing and humiliating prisoners, but that’s only degrees of severity in the same crime. Wrong is wrong. And if you cannot tell the difference between right and wrong, you probably should not have been in the military in the first place. Don’t get me started on that woman even procreating!
I could even understand if they were trying to argue that the woman was mentally challenged. That she did not possess the intelligence to comprehend her actions. If that was the case, it would be the military’s responsibility for allowing her to be in the military in the first place. But nowhere in the article did I see that.
“Overly Compliant” [Shakes Head In Disgust]
