Comments on: Lies And Torture

By: Richard C. Cook

Richard C. Cook — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:44:58 +0000

Thanks Emily for an eloquent and heart-wrenching plea for justice. The past century of worldwide warfare in which the U.S. has played a central role has been a relentless assault on basic human values. The whole idea of the military-intelligence complex as an entity above the law, operating in the shadows beyond restraint or accountability, has nearly destroyed even the idea of constitutional constraints on the power of the State. How can so many government employees, with families and loved ones, paid by the resources of the people of the nation, behave in such despicable ways? I hope that if any are called to justice they should be required to answer, for the record and in pubic, that simple question.

By: mary

mary — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:06:40 +0000

Thank you for this enlightenment Emily.

Craig Murray, once HM Ambassador to Uzbekistan, is giving his evidence on torture to a Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights next Tuesday in the House of Commons. He has fought hard to get them to hear him.

He writes today about Condoleeza Rice’s part in this shameful period of the US and the UK Empire. The government here knew it was going on and participated and yet Blair is now circumnavigating the world by air preaching about his faith.

We allowed aircraft to land and take off with their cargo of prisoners for ‘rendition’. How evil is that use of the word.
Rendition – Noun – Etymology: obsolete French, from Middle French, alteration of reddition, from Late Latin reddition-, redditio, from Latin reddere to return
Date: 1601
: the act or result of rendering: as a: surrender b: translation c: performance, interpretation

He also writes about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed being ‘waterboarded’ over 180 times. Such cruelty and sadism by those who ordered it and by those who carried it out.

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/04/condoleeza_rice.html

By: Emily Spence

Emily Spence — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:27:20 +0000

Yes, the country seems to be getting worse for a number of diverse, although interconnected, reasons. Indeed, some researchers consider that the US has drifted towards becoming a fascist state since, according to them, it is the inevitable outcome that would occur in Capitalist organizations. In any case, these writings might be of interest in relation to the thought:

Source: http://www.russiatoday.ru/Top_News/2009-04-19/_America_lives_in_a_fascist_state____Gerald_Celente.html
‘America lives in a fascist state’ – Gerald Celente

14 Points of Fascism
NOTE: The above 14 Points was written in 2004 by Dr. Laurence Britt, a political scientist. Dr. Britt studied the fascist regimes of: Hitler (Germany), …
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Fascist America in 10 easy steps by Naomi Wolf
Apr 25, 2007 … I am arguing that we need also to look at the lessons of European and other kinds of fascism to understand the potential seriousness of the …
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Fascist_Ameri... – 33k – Similar pages
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Economics of fascism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[20] Fascists argued that the state had a role in mediating relations between these classes (contrary to the views of liberal capitalists). [21] …en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_fascism – 154k – Similar pages

By: timothy

timothy — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:50:34 +0000

One of the saddest parts about all of this is just how far we have fallen, and how none of these atrocities warrants the anger that it most assuredly would had another country done this to our citizens in a government sponsored and wide ranging fashion. This country has of course never been perfect, but now it just seems so much worse.