November 23, 2021

"Ian Fishback, an Army whistle-blower whose allegations that fellow members of the 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq routinely beat and abused prisoners prompted the Senate..."

"... to approve anti-torture legislation in 2005, died on Nov. 19 in Bangor, Mich. He was 42. His family, which announced the death in a statement, said the cause had not been determined. In the climax to a distinguished but abbreviated career that the family said had begun to unravel as a result of neurological damage or post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he died in an adult foster care facility where he had been admitted following court-ordered treatment with anti-psychotic drugs after he became delusional and created public disturbances.... He began receiving psychotropic drugs and was involuntarily committed in September, when his behavior became erratic, resulting in an arrest at a football game."

The NYT reports.

9 comments:

Wince said...
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n.n said...

Fentanyl? A single whistle-blower, an uncorroborated allegation, and a progressive condition.

n.n said...

Only the US Congress beat and abuse prisoners held for months without bail before trial in their DC gulag.

A crowd oversight offer refused by Congress, a plausible (not imminent, probable, or immediate) case of self-defense by a senior officer, an unarmed woman aborted in a pone position, an invitation surreptitiously withdrawn, diverse people assaulted, thereby forcing a riot ("disorder").

Rollo said...

If anybody can routinely beat and abuse people then what is the point of becoming a senator?

gilbar said...

following court-ordered treatment with anti-psychotic drugs after he became delusional and created public disturbances..
Such as alleging that fellow members of the 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq routinely beat and abused prisoners
????

Wince said...

routinely beat and abused prisoners prompted the Senate to approve anti-torture legislation in 2005

Congress: Only we can beat and abuse prisoners held before trial for months without bail in our DC gulag.

Richard Aubrey said...

Obviously, paratroopers are held to a much higher standard than Congress.
Picking one, or picking the other, randomly, in a difficulty, which would you trust?

wendybar said...

Wince said...
routinely beat and abused prisoners prompted the Senate to approve anti-torture legislation in 2005

Congress: Only we can beat and abuse prisoners held before trial for months without bail in our DC gulag.

11/23/21, 5:59 PM

DING, DING, DINGGGGGGG!!!!!!.........

Robert Cook said...

"'following court-ordered treatment with anti-psychotic drugs after he became delusional and created public disturbances...'

Such as alleging that fellow members of the 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq routinely beat and abused prisoners????"


Why question that? As we've seen in use of torture at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, (not to mention in US police prescincts and out in the field), Americans are not averse to using (or approving of) torture.