Congratulations, America. This is Being Done inYOUR Name
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/05/they-torture-children-dont-they.html
Over the last 24 hours, news about U.S. torture has been leaking out:
- A former prisoner testified to Congress that he was beaten, hung by his arms for five days, subjected to electrical shocks and, "They stuck my head into a bucket of water and punched me in the stomach," he said. "I inhaled the water. ... It was a strong punch."
- The FBI was so disturbed at what they saw at Guantanamo that FBI staff created a "war crimes file" to document accusations against American military personnel at Guantanamo. For example, the head of the FBI's national security law unit wrote in July 2003: "Beyond any doubt, what they are doing (and I don't know the extent of it) would be unlawful were these enemy prisoners of war"
- The U.S. military not only tortured prisoners for themselves, but also did the "dirty work" of "softening up" prisoners for Chinese interrogators
The U.S. has also tortured prisoners to death in Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
Not bad enough for you?
Well, the U.S. has imprisoned 2,500 children since 9/11 as "enemy combatants", in violation of the Geneva Convention against classifying children as POWs.
Still not disgusted?
Okay . . . Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh says that the U.S. Government has videotapes of boys being raped at Abu Ghraib prison (see also this and this).
This doesn't come as a complete surprise, given that assistant deputy Attorney General John Yoo has publicly argued that the president can order the torture of a child of a suspect in custody – including by crushing that child’s testicles.
Congratulations, America. This is being done in your name.
If you're not sick to your stomach by learning that your government has been killing and torturing people - including children - then you are a psychopath or a pervert.
Don't try to tell me that torture is a necessary evil. It is well-known by professional interrogators that torture doesn't work. Experts on interrogation say that torture actually interferes with the ability to gather useful information.
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I'm not a particularly vengeful person, but I want VERY SEVERE
consequeces for those who have befouled our American flag with the blood of torture victims & innocent chidren!
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OMG ... GW, this has made me speechless.
My question is why are they torturing these people? To get false confessions? Everyday in every way when I think it can't get any worse ... it does.
Torture produces no
Torture produces no "intelligence". What it does produce is deep revulsion, intimidation and false confessions to justify the fraudulent "war on terror". Its target is as much the appalled US public as the "terrorist suspect". In effect it is an extension of the "shock and awe" trauma of 9/11, without which of course it could not have become official policy. As such it serves to make complicit in the original crimes all who quietly tolerate it in their names. Refuse to be debased. Refuse to crouch in the corner of your cage and piss yourself like Seligman's beagles. Outrage is the only humane response.
“On the altar of God, I swear eternal hostility against all forms of tyranny over the mind of man."--Thomas Jefferson
Well done...
George.
Why isn't Dick Cheney in prison?
How long before torture is...
...practiced on American citizens? We are teaching, conditioning and de-sensitizing hundreds, if not thousands, of armed services personnel in its techniques....it's a small step to bring it back home....and one thing we've learned is that when it comes to black ops (stealing elections, assassinations, etc.), they always eventually bring it home.
9/11 Truth ends the 9/11 Wars
Excellent
Saw your artcle posted here:
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m44247