Tuesday, December 12, 2006
The War on Terror
Routine and systematic torture is at the heart of America's war on terror.
Are we supposed to be the side of truth and justice? Here are a few highlights in case you are in any doubt:
* The Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project (DAA), a coalition of academics and human-rights groups, has documented the abuse or killing of 460 inmates of US military prisons in Afghanistan, Iraq and at Guantánamo Bay.
* Prisoners held by the US military at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan were made to stand for up to 13 days with their hands chained to the ceiling, naked, hooded and unable to sleep.
* Some 25,000 US prisoners are currently held in isolation
* At Pelican Bay in California, where 1,200 people are held in the isolation wing, inmates are confined to tiny cells for 22 and a half hours a day. More than 10% of the isolation prisoners at Pelican Bay are now in the psychiatric ward.
* No officer has yet been held to account for torture practised by his subordinates.
It makes me vomit when I think that Tony Blair has dragged us into this farcical "war on terror" on the side of the kind of people who do this.
Are we supposed to be the side of truth and justice? Here are a few highlights in case you are in any doubt:
* The Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project (DAA), a coalition of academics and human-rights groups, has documented the abuse or killing of 460 inmates of US military prisons in Afghanistan, Iraq and at Guantánamo Bay.
* Prisoners held by the US military at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan were made to stand for up to 13 days with their hands chained to the ceiling, naked, hooded and unable to sleep.
* Some 25,000 US prisoners are currently held in isolation
* At Pelican Bay in California, where 1,200 people are held in the isolation wing, inmates are confined to tiny cells for 22 and a half hours a day. More than 10% of the isolation prisoners at Pelican Bay are now in the psychiatric ward.
* No officer has yet been held to account for torture practised by his subordinates.
It makes me vomit when I think that Tony Blair has dragged us into this farcical "war on terror" on the side of the kind of people who do this.
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The amount of human rights violations since the Bush/Blair pact has defied belief. What always fascinates me, is that they claim the 'terrorists' wish to destroy our way of life. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the ones dismantling our liberties are our governments. Of course, this is nothing more than a smokescreen for their true intentions.
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