Apparently slicing your throat with your own sharpened fingernail is a suicidal “gesture,” and a simple attempt to spread anti-Americanism.
A detainee at the military detention camp here cut his throat with his own fingernail, causing substantial blood loss early last month, but was not at risk of death, military officials said today.
“He did in fact use a sharpened fingernail,” Cmdr. Andrew Haynes, the deputy commander of the guard force here, told reporters during a camp tour.
The neck wound — described by one military official as a “scratch” — required stitches to close.
That’s more than a “gesture.” And when someone is desperate enough to try to slit their throat with their own fingernail, I think their motives may be beyond an attempt to criticize the U.S. government.
It also takes a special kind of clueless asshole to see a person in this situation — stuck in an isolated prison where people are dying and being tortured, having no legal protections or basic human rights, driven to suicide “gestures” — and then think to himself, That guy is trying to cut his own throat because he hates America!