Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure – video

In short: Ford Prefect gets strapped to a chair and gets a narrow rubber tube stuck up his nose and down his throat, then gets rather weepy about it:

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The purpose of the video is to show just how horrible it is that the detainees at Guantanamo are being force fed. Granted, there is a good case to be made that any jihadi who wants to go on a hunger strike should be allowed to do so; as means of suicide go, at least this doesn’t take out a crowd of innocents. Plus, think of the savings, both short term  (by way of food that you don’t need to prepare for ’em) and long term (no more years of detainment, just a few weeks of warehousing then the effort of feeding through a woodchipper and into a septic system).

While I’ve never been fed through a tube like this, a few years back I *did* undergo something similar: a *camera* was shoved up my nose and then down my throat. I seem to recall it being somewhat larger in diameter than this rather narrow soft rubber tube. And while it was a wholly unpleasant experience, I didn’t need to be strapped down for it, nor did I burst into tears and need psychological help afterwards. Just a fair bit of ” bleck fffna fna bleah fffffffffnnnnnnaaaa.”

Feeding people through nasal tubes seems to be a fairly common thing in hospitals, yet I don’t hear a whole lot of “human rights” complaints about it. So is Mos Def  AKA Dante Terrell Smith AKA Yasiin Bey just a wuss? Or is he overacting?