Forced feeding is acknowledged by the AMA and recognized in many court decisions as a violation of the right to refuse medical treatment. So, those who do it are violating both sound medical practice and the law. Yet, Obama forces this treatment on prisoners at Guantanamo.
Denied the release our government publicly says many of them deserve, they are on a hunger strike designed to end in their freedom or in a death they find meaningful. Forced feeding denies them both. But why? Personal and political expedience. Obama sees that the starving death of 86 men deserving release, 2 dying one day, 3 the next, etc., would create a media frenzy that would be both politically damaging and personally anguishing. So, he force feeds the striking prisoners.
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