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“Torture became a part of American policy”

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Guantanamo Bay has not only failed to stop terror, but instead helped Al-Qaeda recruit new members, says civil rights lawyer and writer Jonathan Hafetz, from the American Civil Liberties Union.

“The Bush administration tried to maintain secrecy. The Bush administration deliberately chose Guantanamo to bring prisoners there because they believed it would be outside of the reach of the courts and outside the Habeas Corpus Act, which is, in the American tradition, what really stands between a free country and a policy state.”

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Count Cash July 18, 2009, 08:32
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There is no doubt that torture is institutionalised within the US alongside subversion. These are the tools currently being employed, in a quest for global financial control, and the resulting political control that comes with it, by the Wall Street cronies. These are the weapons of todays US political control, the brutal front on military approach is recognised as innapropriate, to deal with the next targets of finacial conquest; Iran, N Korea and Russia, in tems of states, and Islamacists in terms of faith. Torture is the tool employed to deal with the religeous crusade, subversion is the tool of choice with regard to national campaigns. The US is currently engaged in torture on a grand scale, assisted by eager players like the EU, who have happily ferried people, including their own citizens, to the electric shocks, waterboardings, beatings and executions of the US masters. Torture is the tool of utility for the US, the same way it was for the NAZIs in Gemany. The testimonies there, had striking resemblence to the utterings of the Cheney clan, whose exteremism, exposes the depth to which torture is now ingrained within the US government mindset. But for Russia, subversion, is the number one enemy, as the US, while attending smiling summits, continually works through violent means to destabilise nations, using agents and money, to initiate violence to bring about their agenda points. The vast majority of US people are unaware what is going on. They still blindly think that the US is following its constitution, they still think that the US is fostering the constitutional values abroad. The world however, can see what a constitutional smokescreen it all is, and that the real US of today, is a wall street regime, controlling the levers of US government, as if it was driving a robotic toy. A toy paid for by the working American, in use to break down the walls of other's homes, to steal what is inside. Torture and subversion, as American today as Apple pie!

snowyone July 15, 2009, 00:29
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It used to be a maxim that the USA and its Constitution which came about as the consequence of a National Liberation Revolution was the exmple of democracy that the World should copy. Both Vietnam in 1946 - on becoming an ex-colony of France and thus an Independent State after repelling the fascism of Imperial Japan - and Cuba in 1959 -after a Socialist Revolution - adopted that USA Constitution as their own. For so doing both became the pariahs of the modern State Monopoly Capitalist USA and faced blockades and in the case of Vietnam a [thankfully] unsuccessful prolonged War of re-colonisation by the USA which wanted then as now desparately to forget about its own inception from Colonialism. In the last decade the USA adopted several outright fascist Laws - the most notorious being the Patriot Act - under the hysteria caused by the events of "9/11" and the propagandized excuse of "pending invasion" thereafter. Will the powers behind the USA Presidential "Throne" allow the reversal of these heinous Laws which "legalize" "imprisonment without trial" and "extreme methods of torture" in denial of the "Right of Habeus Corpus"?? The present consequence World wide is that the current example of the USA under these heinous Laws are sarcastically and tragically held as the norm in Wars of Liberation from Colonialism by combatants on all sides!! Is the USA still the example of Democracy today?? "What's To Be Done?" "Where To Begin?". ///snowyone.

Ergatis July 14, 2009, 21:51
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Constitution? What are you talking about? These paople are Nazis!