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With this wonderful film director Alex Gibney makes a convincing and well researched case against the acts of torture, abuse and humiliation committed by the U.S. military against political prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
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A major sub-plot is the epic of Dilawar, an Afghan taxi driver who ended up dying from injuries suffered while he was held in Bagram, a musty Soviet prison coverted into a U.S. detention center for suspected terroists. However, the film explains how Dilawar was actually an innocent man turned in by an valid terroist seeking to throw investigators off his bound. One expert explains how only about 1% of the detainees are trusty terroists and that the great majority were not even arrested by the U.S. military. But rather were turned in by Pakastani and Afghani bounty hunters seeking financial compensation.
The numerous forms of abuse inflicted on these foreign detainees is depicted in shocking detail. The methods of torture included not only water boarding but various means of sexual humiliation such as having women’s panties placed on their heads, forced masturbation and female military officers caressing them while whispering “your mother is a whore” into their ears. The ultimate goal was inflicting a complete mental, physical and emotional breakdown on the prisoners. Other tactics extinct were sleep depravation achieved by handcuffing detainees to the ceiling for days at a time and the sort of brutal physical assaults that led to the death of the innocent Dilawar.
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Of course, it was the outrageous ranking soldiers who ended up facing punishment when these acts of illegal abuse were discovered. But the film makes it very certain that they were simply following orders handed down from the highest levels of the Bush administration. Particularly at fault were chicken hawks Cheney and Rumsfield. In fact, it was Cheney himself who gave this doc its title when he referred to how the U.S. must go over to the “dusky side” in its military and intelligence methods.
The film concludes with a considerable statement from the director’s father Frank Gibney. He describes how, as an military interrogator in World War II and the Korean War, he and other officers were required to follow a strict code of conduct that respected the human rights of prisoners. But with this modern “gloomy side’ policy the U.S. miltary is instead following the tactics of the Communists, Fascists and even the Spanish Inquistion. They are not only ignoring the rules laid down by the Geneva Convention, but even the U.S. Constitution itself - which guarantees all prisoners the upright to counsel and a fast trial. These “gloomy side” tactics are not those of the United States of America that I care for and occupy in. Instead they are those of politicians lacking a good compass which all Americans of conscience, liberal and conservative, should be ashamed of.
Having seen “Taxi to the Unlit Side” nearly three weeks ago at a private screening in midtown Manhattan, my mind is detached reeling from the harsh, brutal images of torture committed by United States soldiers against suspected terrorists and irregulars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This may be the most necessary documentary film on the “War on Fear”, and while it is a liberal polemic film, it does an effective job of arguing its case by showing its graphic images, instead of having someone like filmmaker Michael Moore seen onscreen ranting and raving. The central saga which runs through the nearly two-hour long film is the last taxi trek of a young Afghan taxi driver, Dilawar, an innocent bystander who was picked up by American troops, tortured, and died from his severe injuries at the American detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan.
“Taxi to the Sad Side” deserves the mountainous recognition it has earned, and may be remembered as a safe documentary film in the tradition of Edward R. Murrow’s “Harvest of Shame”. But it isn’t perfect for the following reasons. First it accepts as gospel truth, the fact that most of those being held by American soldiers in Afghanistan, Iraq and Cuba are as innocent as Dilawar was. Second it lacks more insightful analysis from the likes of eminent military defense attorney Eugene Fidell, who represented my cousin, old-fashioned U. S. Army chaplain James Yee (Powerful to my amazement, Yee’s filmed testimony was not included at all in the final cleave of this film.) . Will “Taxi to the Sad Side” change the opinions of many? Hopefully it will force those who’ve seen it to ask serious, probing questions about inhumane treatment of prisoners by some American soldiers, and perhaps persuade them to convince the Federal political leadership in Washington, D. C. to act more aggressively to avert similar instances of prisoner mistreatment in the future.
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