(Article changed on October 14, 2012 at 23:35)
I feel as if I'm repeating myself over and over for
the past 8 years. Each time that I think I've written about everything, the
government comes out with something else.
The Bush regime was a catastrophic horror. He did
away with habeas corpus, and that was bad enough. In essence, he scrapped the
Magna Charta that had been central to our western values for the almost eight hundred
years. It is part of our own Constitution. These two values were taken from it.
Part of the text is
here:
"No
freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, disseised, outlawed, banished, or in any
way destroyed, nor will We proceed against or prosecute him, except by the
lawful judgment
of his peers and by the law of the land."
"To
no one will We sell, to no one will We deny or delay, right or justice."
The
democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history . . . It was
written in Magna Carta."
--Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, 1941 Inaugural address
So, since the Magna Charta was shredded by picking
up supposed "terrorists" that were probably thinking they were shooting or
trying to plant bombs against foreign invaders, they were hauled into the Black
Prisons, hooded and subject to "Enhanced Interrogation" which probably freaked
them out.
A Congressional bipartisan report in December
2008[50] established that:
harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA and
the U.S. military were directly adapted from the training techniques used to
prepare special forces personnel to resist interrogation by enemies that
torture and abuse prisoners. The techniques included forced nudity, painful
stress positions, sleep deprivation, and until 2003, waterboarding, a form of
simulated drowning.
According to ABC and former and current CIA officials have come forward to reveal details of interrogation techniques authorized in the CIA. These include:
1. Waterboarding: The prisoner is bound to
an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet. Material is
wrapped over the prisoner's face and water is poured over them, asphyxiating
the prisoner.
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