My Opera"We do not torture".
Saturday, March 28, 2009 4:51:30 AM
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/27/britain/index.html
So to recap - it's been over six years since the first pushes from the American government started to ramp up regarding "security cooperation", including - as becomes evident from certain sources - requests for the government to extradite alleged criminals without process, into a system without common judicial review. And prisoners in the number of hundreds, that we know, of have been dropped in Guantanamo due to their "high value". And then subsequently either tried in a civilian court on suspicion, or transfered to a different tribunal system when there was no possibility to prolong the detention any longer - due to of all things diligent military lawyers (such as the one representing David Hicks). Of course, some are eventually released. And as we know now, as with David Hicks, in return for writing their signature on a legal document precluding them from speaking about the events that occurred.
Which apparently appeals to all the rightie fucks, since the people who sat in prison won't be able to "make a shitload on writing their life- story while Bush was still in office, because all the liberals would gob it up". And in addition fools everyone, since now there's no proof that torture actually occurred.
You know - I used to be grateful there are, relatively speaking, less wars around the planet nowadays. And that political activism doesn't have a real price. I mean, if you're white, live in the west, and don't kill people, you can get away with almost anything. But I can see how this is a problem, when the biggest sacrifice and act of activism most people are able to do involves donating money to a charity or a political figure. Sure, you can beat up some skinheads for variety in the name of non- violence - but there's no real and immediately discernible price to pay for fielding hate and militarism when that is a politically viable currency, now is there?
So all hail the rapid deployment force, the war- industry and wars on the other end of the planet. Really - how awesome isn't the idea that "the war will pay for itself", hm? Just an economical theory, or a policy- suggestion - no implications here, you know..
So: we put people into cages for years with no charges and tortured them, and then told them that we would release them only if they agreed to keep silent about what we did to them and renounce all claims for judicial accountability and disclosure. If they refused the vow of silence -- as Mohamed did -- they would stay in their cage.
So to recap - it's been over six years since the first pushes from the American government started to ramp up regarding "security cooperation", including - as becomes evident from certain sources - requests for the government to extradite alleged criminals without process, into a system without common judicial review. And prisoners in the number of hundreds, that we know, of have been dropped in Guantanamo due to their "high value". And then subsequently either tried in a civilian court on suspicion, or transfered to a different tribunal system when there was no possibility to prolong the detention any longer - due to of all things diligent military lawyers (such as the one representing David Hicks). Of course, some are eventually released. And as we know now, as with David Hicks, in return for writing their signature on a legal document precluding them from speaking about the events that occurred.
Which apparently appeals to all the rightie fucks, since the people who sat in prison won't be able to "make a shitload on writing their life- story while Bush was still in office, because all the liberals would gob it up". And in addition fools everyone, since now there's no proof that torture actually occurred.
You know - I used to be grateful there are, relatively speaking, less wars around the planet nowadays. And that political activism doesn't have a real price. I mean, if you're white, live in the west, and don't kill people, you can get away with almost anything. But I can see how this is a problem, when the biggest sacrifice and act of activism most people are able to do involves donating money to a charity or a political figure. Sure, you can beat up some skinheads for variety in the name of non- violence - but there's no real and immediately discernible price to pay for fielding hate and militarism when that is a politically viable currency, now is there?
So all hail the rapid deployment force, the war- industry and wars on the other end of the planet. Really - how awesome isn't the idea that "the war will pay for itself", hm? Just an economical theory, or a policy- suggestion - no implications here, you know..
