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From: holderlin66
Date: Thu Jun 10, 2004 2:01 pm
Subject: Page from Ahriman's Playbook
Commented on previously:
It isn't that I imagine Armageddon as some
sort of end time insertion now, I don't. It is what the delusional
method of Occupation and chaos that is emerging in the stream
of three absolute fundamental and fundamenalistic paradigms and
streams, Judaism, Islam and Idiot Christians are gonna do to
the world to create a perpetual Orwellian war on terrorism which
is the prime illusion. Marines, and Islam and idiots dying for
the justificaton of the region fo the Cradle of Oil and the Plan,
is psychological binding hatred.
Bradford adds;
Well this whole fiasco started with a Term
Paper, a thesis on WMD but the writer of that Thesis has appeared
again. After all he became famous from his thesis that spies
chugged down like grog.
"The more unstable Iraq
is, the more the United States can justify having military bases
to 'stabilize' the country ... even though the postwar chaos
in Iraq may have given al-Qaida agents a new base to continue
their campaign against the United States."
Bradford agrees;
This has been the clever thinking all along.
Weigh up the regional and Fundamental cross continent religious
hatreds, stir in some black OPS terrorists to destabalize things
when needed, bingo! It is really that simple. This is the summation
of Think Tanks. Think Tanks and Michael Intelligence such as
this list. Think Tanks to serve Wolfowitz, Cheney, Perle, Rumsfeld..Or
Think Lists that can see the motives and have insights into beings
submerged in the will? Michael Intelligence is a wonderful antidote
to Think Tanks.
[Yahoo! News long link]
- Once upon a time, a Ph.D.
candidate in California named Ibrahim al- Marashi picked up the
morning newspapers and found his 15 minutes of fame. Secretary
of State Colin Powell was before the United Nations testifying
that all good men must go to war because the aces of American
and British intelligence had uncovered undeniable proof that
the dictator of Iraq was making, hiding and getting ready to
use weapons of mass destruction.
It turned out that a lot of
the intelligence Powell cited that day came from al-Marashi's
doctoral dissertation on the military ambitions of Saddam Hussein,
published two years earlier under the title "Iraq's Security
and Intelligence Network." It was plagiarism at the highest
levels. British intelligence had stolen 5,000 words from the
American student, son of Iraqi parents, ignored his conclusions,
and declared Saddam an imminent threat to English-speaking Christians
everywhere.
Whatever happened to al-Marashi?
His latest work, an essay from the newspaper Zaman in Istanbul
published after he returned from a trip to Iraq two weeks ago,
turned up here last week as President Bush visited and compared
troubles in Iraq to World War II. The young Iraqi-American's
new work makes sad reading, stating in part:
"During World War I,
the victorious British entered Baghdad and declared to its inhabitants
that they were 'liberated' from years of 'Ottoman tyranny.' The
British then took three regions, Mosul, Baghdad and Basra, to
form what is today Iraq. The Kurds, Sunni and Shiite Arabs had
little in common with each other, other than their animosity
toward the British. It was obvious to these communities that
'liberation' meant 'occupation,' and they united to harass and
expel the British.
"The British response
was to create a monarchy sympathetic to their wishes in 1921.
By 1958, the Iraqi people again united to overthrow a government
too subservient to the British. It was the chaos following the
1958 revolution that allowed a tyrant like Saddam Hussein to
climb to power."
Reading al-Mashari gets more
depressing than that. After earning degrees at Georgetown University
and UCLA, he is now a fellow of the Center for Non-Proliferation
Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and
has also written other political analysis that Western intelligence
agencies should have found more significant than WMD theories.
In his Zaman piece, he suggests, for instance, that the coalition's
hopes for winning the hearts and minds of the people of Iraq,
including those who had the most personal reasons to hate Saddam,
may have been doomed from the start -- because so many Iraqis
believed that the dictator had been for a very long time an agent
or tool of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
After all, he reports, Iraqis
know that the United States supplied Saddam with military and
intelligence help during the country's long war against Iran
in the 1980s. Then, after the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites)
presided over by President George H.W. Bush, American-led coalition
troops did not kill or capture Saddam, but urged Kurds in the
north and Shiites in the South to rise up against him. When they
did, the United States stood aside and allowed Saddam to slaughter
the resisters. Americans have their own explanations for that,
but al-Marashi says many Iraqis believe it was all an American
plot to strengthen, not weaken, Saddam.
Now what? Al-Marashi sees
little difference between the British disaster of the 1920s and
the American moves more than 80 years later. The British put
in a king to try to preserve their position and the Americans
are putting in prime ministers and presidents -- and things will
get worse and worse. But perhaps that serves our real intentions,
al-Marashi concludes, writing"
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From: holderlin66
Date: Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:54 am
Subject: Page from Ahriman's Playbook/Amerika
Bernard Weiner: 'The Bush
dictatorship revealed: L'etat c'est moi'
Date: Friday, June 11 @ 10:24:27 EDT
Topic: Commander-In-Thief
By Bernard Weiner, The Crisis
Papers
There's only one issue to
discuss right now: the extra-constitutional rules and philosophy
of the Bush Administration, as revealed in the legal briefs and
memos drafted for Rumsfeld and Ashcroft and Bush on the torture
question.
The underlying philosophy
behind the legal briefs and memos in question can be summarized
thusly: The President is the Commander-in-Chief. The President
says we're in a war. The Commander-in-Chief in a time of war
can lay aside all laws and treaties, and do whatever he feels
he has to do, in the name of national security.
What this means in practice
is: Since in a war against terrorism, there is no definitive
end, what the U.S. is waging is permanent war -- against the
Al Qaida network and against those nation-states that the president
deems worthy of being invaded, for real or invented reasons.
Since the president is permitted to establish his own set of
laws for the duration of the war, it follows that anyone who
criticizes his actions ipso facto is giving aid and comfort to
the enemy, and can be dealt with at any time by the police agencies
of the state. Don't mess with us.
Can't get much closer to dictatorship
than that. This is the world, and philosophy, of Pinochet, Stalin,
Hitler. Or, closer to home, Richard Nixon, who claimed that when
a president takes any action, because he is the president, by
definition his actions are not illegal.
"ABOVE THE LAW"
NO LONGER A METAPHOR
Note: I'm not saying or suggesting
that Bush is Hitler or Stalin or Pinochet, rather that the policies
and philosophies expressed, which already have been put into
practice and are being defended by the Bush Administration and
its supporters, clearly and inevitably takes our country down
that road to political dictatorship.
("The breadth of authority
in the [memo] report is wholly unprecedented," says Avi
Cover, a senior attorney with the U.S. Law and Security programme
of Human Rights First, formerly known as Lawyers Committee for
Human Rights. "Until now, we've used the rhetoric of a president
who is 'above the law,' but this document makes that [assertion]
explicit; it's not a metaphor anymore."
Even conservatives that are
doing all they can to keep Bush in office, and thus preserve
their party's majority status in Congress, are having great difficulty
coming to the defense of Bush&Co. on this issue. If impeachment
is initiated in the next few months, it will come with the aid
of Republicans appalled by these extra-constitutional moves by
Bush and his handlers to sidestep the Constitution, the Bill
of Rights, the Congress, the courts, indeed any individual or
institution that gets in their way.
Let me reiterate: What is
being discussed here is not the torture of detainees or prisoners
in the "war on terror." That is an important issue
all its own, one that flows naturally from the philosophy being
advanced in the leaked memos. (And, by the way, even though Ashcroft
has asserted that he will not turn over the memos to the Congress
-- which could be grounds for citing him for contempt of Congress
-- some of the documents already are out on the internet.
What IS being examined here
is the proclaimed right of this Administration to torture anyone,
to imprison anyone, to invade any country, simply because (it
is claimed) as Commander-in-Chief in a war, he has the sole right
to decide who should be prosecuted, imprisoned, tortured, invaded,
killed.
/THE SUPREME LEADER
According to this cockamamie
interpretation of how America works, the Constitution and Bill
of Rights are null and void whenever the president decides to
"lay aside" laws and act on his own authority. L'etat
c'est moi: I am the State. No legislature, no court, no international
body can, or should, get in the way. This is wartime. I am the
Supreme Leader. Sieg heil!
You think I'm exaggerating,
comparing this totalitarian philosophy of government with those
of the Stalinist or Hitlerian states? Just read for yourself
the ##52-page memo on the sordid justifications the Bush Administration
lawyers thought up to allow for, even facilitate, the torture
of suspects in custody.
Now the Bushies will claim
that those were just working drafts, or philosophical speculations
by government attorneys, never adopted into official policy,
never turned into orders or laws. And, in the narrowest sense
-- even though government actions to date have mirrored what
was laid out in those documents -- they may be correct that Bush
never explicitly signed a written order that said "go thou
and torture."
But underlings understand
what is being communicated by their bosses, based on their demands
for information, their body language, the many discussions that
have been held on the topic in question, the tone of voice in
their wanting certain conclusions to be reached, etc. Hitler,
for example, never had to authorize in writing the genocide of
six million Jews and Gypsies and homosexuals. He didn't have
to: the philosophy of maltreatment and destruction had been hammered
out over the months in memorandums and discussions around tables.
The word filtered down the chain of command. Everyone knew what
they were supposed to do, with no written orders necessary.
In the case of prisoner-torture
and abuse at Guantánamo and in Iraq and elsewhere, the
memoranda commissioned by the Justice and Defense Departments
(with, per usual, only the State Department objecting) laid out
the attitude of this radical, extremist Administration: Find
us a way that we can extract information from prisoners in our
custody that will not amount to war crimes under the various
conventions and treaties about torture.
HOW TO GET AROUND THE TREATIES
The ways they came up with,
while morally and legally reprehensible, were ingenious. 1) We
won't have "prisoners of war," which are covered under
the Geneva Conventions; we'll invent new terms not covered, such
as "enemy combatants." 2) We will claim a new universal
right for the president: acting under his authority as Commander-in-Chief
during "wartime," he can authorize whatever he wants,
whenever he wants, and all will be justified under his oath to
protect the national security. Therefore, whatever he authorizes
is not unlawful, because he IS the law.
And, to protect those who
carry out and facilitate the torture and abuse, all the president
has to do is sign a document authorizing him to fulfill the orders,
and, in a magic instant, they are thus immunized from war-crimes
charges by any federal or international court because (drum roll,
please) they were only "following orders." ("To
protect subordinates should they be charged with torture, the
memo advised that Mr. Bush issue a 'presidential directive or
other writing' that could serve as evidence, since authority
to set aside the laws is inherent in the president'." Click
heels, arms out.
"If anyone in the higher
levels of government acted in reliance on this advice, those
persons should be impeached. If they authorized torture, it may
be that they have committed, and should be tried for, war crimes.
And, as we learned at Nuremberg, 'I was just following orders'
is NOT (and should not be) a defense," writes attorney Michael
Froomkin. Brazen chutzpah! These swaggering bullies simply dismiss
the possible validity of any moral or legal or political judgments
other than their own, and (secretly) barrel on full-steam ahead.
Why? Because they and they alone know what is Good; everyone
who disagrees is either Evil or inadvertently serving the cause
of Evil. If the former, they can be imprisoned and/or wiped out;
if the latter, they can be charged and punished, which will alert
others to keep their traps shut, lest they get the same treatment.
OVERTHROWING THE CONSTITUTION
Our Founding Fathers were
all too aware of that type of thinking and government, which
is why they rebelled against a tyrannical monarch, and set up
their own carefully thought-through system of governance, one
designed to prevent any one person or faction from too easily
being able to do civic damage in the name of righteousness. The
checks-and-balances system of government, with a strong free
press ferreting out scandals and dangerous rascals, was designed
to ensure democracy and freedom.
That system of government
has worked beautifully (if sluggishly) for more than two centuries.
But within just a few years, acting out of greed and power-hunger,
a few extremist ideologues have tried to turn that system on
its head, installing what amounts to a king as president, and
woe be unto those who demur or oppose.
Using fear and demagoguery
after the terrors of 9/11 -- an attack they knew was coming but
did nothing to prevent or ameliorate -- those ideologues manipulated
the Congress and populace into giving them a blank check to go
after those who perpetrated this terrorist mass-murder, and they've
been riding that same horse ever since in service of their other,
more extreme agenda. They even invented a non- existent tie-in
to 9/11 to justify their invasion of Iraq -- and then, much later,
with very little attendant publicity, Bush admitted that there
hadn't been any such relationship.
IMPEACHMENT AND ELECTIONS
Friends (and any Democratic
office-holders reading this), we either stop this pack of wolves
here -- by impeaching them now, or in November throwing them
out of the offices they've disgraced -- or we wind up living
in a police-state at home, and carrying out more disastrous imperial
wars abroad. Is this the country so many veterans have fought
and died for? Is this the kind of government you want your kids
raised under? Is this, finally, what we've come to in America
because we didn't pay enough attention to what was really happening
under our noses, and permitted ourselves to be snowed and manipulated
so easily?
I think not. It's time for
us to raise our voices in a mighty roar to our elected officials,
to organize our friends and neighbors, to shout out to the rest
of the world that this is not the true America and will not stand.
We will not permit a dictatorship,
not matter what is claims as its reasons, to destroy our Constitution
and Bill of Rights, to damage America's reputation abroad, to
place our national interests in such jeopardy, to deform our
economy and social system by spending hundreds of billions of
dollars in foreign adventurism, to ruin our environment, to close
off true learning opportunities to our children.
We've learned our lesson from
Vietnam: We will not permit our country to be "destroyed
in order to save it." This Administration has to leave.
The sooner the better. The longer they stay in power, the worse
it is for all of us.
Just go!
Bernard Weiner, Ph.D. in government
& international relations, is co-editor of The Crisis Papers
(www.crisispapers.org), and a contributing author to the
just-released "Big Bush Lies" book, available at bookstores
and through RiverWood publishers (www.riverwoodbooks.com/books/Big-Bush-Lies.html).
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From: holderlin66
Date: Mon Jun 14, 2004 1:05 pm
Subject: Page from Ahriman's Playbook
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/06/13/498164.html
"The justice department,
which is supposed to uphold the law, actually sent a memo worthy
of the Nazi legal system explaining why the Geneva Conventions
and U.S. laws did not apply to "terrorism suspects."
Any American may apparently be arrested as a "terrorism
suspect," and tortured, according to justice lawyers. Replace
"terrorism suspect" with "enemy of the people"
and you have Stalin's Soviet tyranny."
"When legal and moral
constraints are removed, or undermined, states run rampant over
their people's rights. Both Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet
Union embarked on their monstrous crimes after co- operative
lawyers set the legal stage for their actions."
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From: holderlin66
Date: Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:27 pm
Subject: Page from Ahriman's Playbook/ Global Catharsis
Bradford comments;
Prisoner abuse and torture? Let us tell you
the spin. When asked, "Oh we got investigations going, (stall,
stall, wink, wink, nod, nod). Bush says "The American Soul
doesn't believe in torture". How high up did this all go?
Right up Bush's butt.
Why isn't Rumsfeld gone? Since we know Ashcroft
lied to the 9/11 commission, why isn't he gone? Ashcroft, "I
never said, I don't want to hear anymore about terrorists"
Ah but witnesses say you did say that. Cheney, this ball of stuffed
lies. Did you call Bush to ask to shoot the planes down? Ya,
right. Conndi is a liar and they are all waiting for the ship
to sink. Sink it I say, Sink it and bury it where the sun doesn't
shine.
Rumsfeld, if you can even swallow such trite
crap, says he did permit some things, like blindfolding, or standing
for a longer than four hours, you know, a little less food on
tuesdays and no movies on saturdays, but only for gittmo. What
watered down jingo is this? "Bring em ON"- Take the
gloves off, Screw the U.N., Screw the Geneva Convention. How
utterly gutless every single Senate and Rep remains in the business
of covering for Ahriman. Yep, we all got Ahriman in us, but when
you are shamefully his tool for all the world to see and Washington
so reeks of it, enough so that Hitler keeps coming to everyone's
mind, someone needs to hose down the whole sewer.
First, the military and milatry contracts
would be slashed and the funding sent to schools where it belonged
if I was dictator. All mighty subs, nukes and defense would remain
on post. We would get our Avarice ridden mission and military
goons out of Iraq and begin negotiations to work out how to share
energy in the world. We would take on mutual inspections of everyones
nuclear beasts and back down, dismantle, slowly, because someone
is going to goof sooner or later, we know it.
The defense program would be humanity and
the U.S. setting the standard of learning to know lie from truth
and from this humble beginning, unfold deeper and deeper self
observation so that each American can be educated enough to see
the difference between twisted lie and truth. Defense would start
from the heart.
Bradford would declare Las Vegas the Luciferic
Center for understanding the mysteries of sensual and soul 'lite'
corrruption. Washington and Wall street would have giant neon
signs placed over entrances to certain buildings, "Ahriman's
gambling and Avarice School, Avarice from Atlantis to today"
Remember Rome wasn't built in a day. Avarice for refined understanding
of Ahrimanic and Asuric destinies from Atlantis to Aztc, to Ghengis
and Ghandi Shapur to Popes, Rome, Phillip the Fair and The Minority
Report. Cloning for fun and profit. Remaking the Earth in man's
stupidity.
As for Asuras well, with Torture techniques,
Sadistic Porno, Snuff videos and public beheadings as well as
the private stock of pictures from various torture chambers in
Israel, Abu Ghraib and other places, we are drifting into the
shattering Asuric tastes that Steiner described. This has become
a Lilth theme that apparently leads to Sorath's central shattered
I AM mystery.
How about we try Saddam and Bush, one in Baghdad
the other at the Hague for War crimes. Have you any idea, dear
friends, have you any idea at all, in our thick heads, what would
happen if we were able to see all the footage of the torture,
rape, and murder videos and photographs that the Military is
sitting on now? Do you have any idea what an outrage the entire
world would have? I say show them all, and make a humanitarian
museum out of Abu Ghraib. Show the pattern of how Nazi culture
almost took over the 21st century. Show the players, the lies
and the deceptions.
Why aren't we seeing the 1000 hours of film
on this? So the story will cool down, so the weak and slimy credibility
and the current, look in the camera and lie, George Bush can
lull the media back into its hypnotic power. The country would
sizzle as Sy Hersh who has seen these tapes knows. Michael Moore's
little film, would look like a nice Disney cartoon, compared
to the atrocity ridden film from torture sessions the military
is keeping from the public. Why should we even think of going
numb now, with Bush and all the big mouthed mockery he had of
the U.N. and Geneva convention. I say, hang em high and don't
dare fall asleep and merely let the military investigate itself.
Show the Asuric torture schools so we can get a handle on hypocrisy
and cognition before we sail into more nightmares without a compass.
Bring down the whole rotten deck of cards
and shatter the Ahrimanic deceptions now, before any more of
this leaks into brains unchecked. Without anymore Military boyscouts
with moral codes of Trolls and Orcs, and smelling like Navy Seals
get all hot about saving the world. Turn the whole thing around
with a huge global apology and catharsis. MY plan is so unrealistic
that assassinations, out and out civil war and nightmare would
erupt once the scurvy varmits hiding in Bush and Sharon and world
leaders everywhere had no place to hide from the conscience of
the world. Remember Village of the Damned? Well just watch if
you let all those nightmare torture videos out. The eyes of the
world would go white.
I am sick and tired of hearing how Terrorists
are inhuman. The living lie is that Palastine and Arabs just
have got all the oil and we just won't leave them alone and the
Whining Israel Lords of American Economy have planned for these
times and we all have fallen for it. Terrorists wouldn't become
terrorists at all if all the diabolical sinister betrayals and
scoffing at humanity and fairness didn't come from the very top
of every selfish decision we make.
Published on Wednesday,
June 23, 2004 by the Miami Herald
Bush's Accurate Case for War
by Robert Steinback
Let's alter history just a
little bit, and imagine that President Bush had given us an accurate
case for war in Iraq 18 months ago.
``My fellow Americans, I'm
appearing before you today to ask for your support as I make
the most solemn decision a president can make: Committing our
military troops to war.
``We must remove Saddam Hussein
from power, although his only known threat to the United States
is that he hates us. While we know that Hussein possessed and
used weapons of mass destruction in the past, we have no evidence
that he has them today or that he's making more. But he hasn't
proved that he doesn't have them, and this constitutes an urgent
threat to America.
``So we must act now, because
Hussein, who had nothing to do with the Sept. 11 attacks, might
choose to give the WMDs that he doesn't have to Osama bin Laden,
with whom he has never collaborated.
Hussein hasn't attacked
us
``That's why I've decided
to shift the bulk of our military resources away from catching
bin Laden, who has already attacked us and vows to do so again,
so that we can pursue a man who hasn't attacked us and almost
certainly can't, based on the remote possibility that he'll give
aid to bin Laden, who no longer is my top priority.
``My fellow Americans, the
case is clear. We must liberate the Iraqi people, though we have
little evidence that they want us to invade their country. We
must give them a chance at democracy, though history strongly
suggests that a Western attempt to impose a government in this
part of the world is doomed to fail.
``Our very presence is likely
to attract terrorists from all over the region and inspire new
recruits, dedicated to undermining our attempts to impose a new
government.
``Still, we must ensure the
establishment of a new, friendly government in Baghdad that won't
have a prayer of survival without our help. Before long, they'll
beg us to establish a military base in Iraq -- which is our primary
objective. That, in theory, will enable us to threaten every
other Middle Eastern nation that dares to stand against us. Peace
will reign, oil will flow and profits will accumulate. Admittedly,
experts consider this a pretty far-fetched scenario, but we can't
fail because God is on our side. He tells me so.
Dangerous attorney general
``But we face a long, difficult,
bloody operation. More than 800 American soldiers will die and
4,000 will be maimed during the first 15 months of war. We'll
honor them by saying that their sacrifices helped preserve American
freedom, which in fact is threatened more by my attorney general
than by Hussein.
``In addition, this war will
put us at odds with France, Germany and many other of our traditional
allies. But we'll work to repair those ruptured bonds soon, when
we go crawling back to the world community pleading for it to
bail us out of the tar pit into which we're about to leap.
``And so, my fellow Americans,
I'm asking you to commit a modest $200 billion of your hard-earned
money over the next two years to support this patriotic endeavor.
Don't worry; your money will be in good hands, as we will hand
out billions in no-bid contracts to corporations well known to
people in my administration.
``And you can count on firm
leadership from me until our mission is accomplished. So that
you never lose faith in me, I will refuse to take responsibility
for anything that goes wrong, whether it's intelligence failures,
prisoner-abuse scandals or insufficient body armor for our troops.
``I'd like to tell you that
America will prevail and that terrorism will be defeated. But
I'm here to give an honest evaluation of our situation.
Strategy a `total disaster'
'So I am compelled to tell
you that more than two dozen retired military brass and diplomats
from both major parties who doubt the wisdom and sanity of my
call for war will take the unprecedented step of publicly describing
my strategy as a `total disaster.' They'll say that my approach
will make the world less safe, alienate us from the very allies
we need to help construct a global anti-terrorism alliance and
undermine our national prestige and honor.
``And they'll be right. But
here is the ultimate truth that so many of my un-American, unpatriotic
critics overlook: You won't care. You'll still like me and support
me, no matter how badly things turn out. That's because you have
short memories, and you'll believe just about anything I tell
you, even if it contradicts what I've told you before.
``So, in closing, let me say,
God bless you, and God bless America.''
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From: holderlin66
Date: Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:14 pm
Subject: Re: Page from Ahriman's Playbook/ Asura 101
As for Asuras well, with Torture techniques,
Sadistic Porno, Snuff videos and public beheadings as well as
the private stock of pictures from various torture chambers in
Israel, Abu Ghraib and other places, we are drifting into the
shattering Asuric tastes that Steiner described. This has become
a Lilth theme that apparently leads to Sorath's central shattered
I AM mystery.
Have you any idea, dear friends, have you
any idea at all, in our thick heads, what would happen if we
were able to see all the footage of the torture, rape, and murder
videos and photographs that the Military is sitting on now? Do
you have any idea what an outrage the entire world would have?
I say show them all, and make a humanitarian museum out of Abu
Ghraib. Show the pattern of how Nazi culture almost took over
the 21st century. Show the players, the lies and the deceptions.
The country would sizzle as Sy Hersh who
has seen these tapes knows. Michael Moore's little film, would
look like a nice Disney cartoon, compared to the atrocity ridden
film from torture sessions the military is keeping from the public.
Show the Asuric torture schools so we can get a handle on hypocrisy
and cognition before we sail into more nightmares without a compass.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/062404A.shtml
Torture: Bush Reaps What
Kennedy Sowed
By Steve Weissman
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Thursday 24 June 2004
New photos of American soldiers
raping and killing Iraqis will likely emerge in the coming days,
as Secretary Rumsfeld obliquely warned us weeks ago. Far more
graphic than any images we have yet seen, they will again drag
Team Bush through the mud, further mocking their claims to uphold
human rights and mucking up their celebration of "Iraqi
sovereignty."
Taking the scandal beyond
coercive interrogation, the new horror show will make real the
brutality that war brings out, especially against men and women
who look, dress, talk, eat, and worship in ways that seem so
foreign. In young soldiers from Kansas and West Virginia, we
will see the same contempt that European conquerors showed in
their colonial flings, even as they preached the Word of God
or the Values of Western Civilization. In jargon of an electronic
age, we will hear the blood-curdling echoes of earlier American
heroes wresting control of an entire continent from those who
lived there before, not to mention those pumped-up imperial forays
across the Pacific and into Latin America.
Remember Manifest Destiny
and the White Man's Burden, the high-minded phrases that hid
the old down-and-dirty? War on Terror, Democracy (of an export
kind), and the New American Century follow in the same tradition,
celebrated or despised depending on which side of the boot one
sees and who ends up with the oil. Only now, most of the world
- and growing numbers of Americans - want to shed the whole bloody
business.
Which brings us back to those
coercive interrogation techniques. Call them stress and duress,
torture-lite, or just plain torture, they remain central to America's
colonial adventures from Vietnam to Iraq.
When John F. Kennedy entered
the White House in 1961, he and his advisors looked warily at
the growing nationalism in the old European colonies. Self-proclaimed
communists - like Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam or Fidel Castro in Cuba
- raised a red flag, while even non-communists - like Sukarno
in Indonesia - threatened Western control of oil and strategic
minerals.
JFK responded by sending several
thousand more Americans into Southeast Asia and proclaiming his
Alliance for Progress in Latin America. Scholars and conspiracy
addicts still speculate on whether he would have further escalated
or pulled out of Vietnam had he not been killed, but his impact
south of the border became obvious early on. Whatever his original
intent, his liberal sounding Alliance helped native elites stave
off needed reforms, defended yanqui corporations, and strengthened
local armies. Six military coups overthrew civilian governments
before he died, and a seventh took control in Brazil a few months
after.
JFK favored the kind of muscular
foreign policy that today's neo-conservatives push, and many
of them at the time supported his approach, whatever the human
cost or long-range consequences.
Both in Vietnam and Latin
America, Kennedy relied heavily on American military advisors,
many of them Green Berets, in whom he showed enormous interest.
They knew how to withstand torture. They also knew how to apply
it - and how to teach client armies to do the same.
Fighting in foreign lands
against rebels who often had at-least passive support from their
people, the US advisors and the armies they trained needed to
produce intelligence on the run. Torture, or coercive interrogation,
was one way to get it.
Whether to elicit information
or simply to terrorize the opposition, torture had historically
played a role in holding down rebellious population. But, always
in character, the New Frontier brought new thinking to bear.
The theory came initially
from the CIA's Office of Science and Technology, which spent
a fortune studying how to make unwilling people talk. Starting
in the 1950s, the spooky scientists tested LSD and other drugs,
brainwashing, hypnosis, polygraphs, electric shock, and a wide
range of other physical and psychological pressures.
They also borrowed from the
French, who perfected their torture techniques in losing colonial
wars against the Vietnamese and Algerians. No doubt, the British
"cousins" also offered ideas from their equally nasty
effort to hold an empire together.
The CIA summed up this macabre
research in a classified manual they called "KUBARK Counter
Intelligence Interrogation - July 1963." KUBARK was code
for the CIA, which used the ideas in its murderous Operation
Phoenix in Vietnam. The US military also used the manual extensively,
notably at Fort Benning's School of the Americas, teaching it
to upcoming officers from throughout the hemisphere and helping
create the most notorious tyrants and torturers.
One passage strikes almost
everyone who sees it: In choosing an interrogation site, "the
electric current should be known in advance, so that transformers
and other modifying devices will be on hand if needed."
But the KUBARK manual goes
far beyond how to create pain. In fact, it points out the limitations.
"Direct physical brutality creates only resentment, hostility,
and further defiance," the authors warn. "The threat
of coercion usually weakens or destroys resistance more effectively
than coercion itself. The threat to inflict pain, for example,
can trigger fears more damaging than the immediate sensation
of pain."
Read the manual for yourself.
You can find it - and a Reagan-era update - online at the National
Security Archive. Here you will see exactly why the Pentagon
wanted young prison guards at Abu Ghraib to keep the Iraqis naked,
sexually humiliate them, sic dogs on them, force them into stress
positions, continually break up their eating and sleeping routines,
deprive them of sensory stimulation, and apply several other
clear-cut violations of the Geneva Conventions.
As the 1963 manual makes clear,
the Pentagon's goal in 2003 was not to produce unbearable pain.
Instead, the Pentagon wanted to exploit their captives' internal
conflicts, make them wrestle in themselves, force them to regress
toward childhood, make them feel dread and guilt, and render
them unable to hold back information interrogators wanted.
Whether in Afghanistan, Guantánamo,
Iraq, or its global gulag of secret torture centers, Team Bush
did not conjure all this up as they rushed to war in Afghanistan
and Iraq. Stress and duress, and the people trained to use it,
have been in the American arsenal for years. They were there
ready for the administration to use. Bush lawyers did not even
have to think up the argument that stress and duress was something
less than torture. The canard has been around as long as the
techniques themselves.
Where Bush and his advisers
showed their originality was in characteristically going too
far. The KUBARK manual warned field interrogators never to use
the techniques without explicit approval of higher-ups, who would
weigh the need for intelligence against the risk that outsiders
might learn that Americans were using torture.
Later versions carried warning
labels: "The use of force, mental torture, threats, insults
or exposure to inhumane treatment of any kind as an aid to interrogation
is prohibited by law, both international and domestic; it is
neither authorized nor condoned."
"While we deplore the
use of coercive techniques, we do want to make you aware of them
so that you may avoid them."
Beyond the obvious CYA, the
Pentagon and CIA both tried to maintain plausible denial, having
senior officials decide when to apply which methods, or letting
foreign nationals do most of the dirty work. Mr. Bush ignored
such restraints, making wholesale, even boastful use of coercive
techniques that his predecessors had tried to use on the sly.
Mr. Bush will continue to
proclaim that torture is un-American and that he has ordered
"humane treatment" for those his forces capture. But
no one will believe him or his successors unless Congress makes
into binding law the notion best expressed by Michael Ignatieff,
a professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
"I just think we need
to start with one simple idea, which is that liberal democracies
do not torture, ever, period," says Ignatieff. "Wars
on terror are a battle for hearts and minds. We can't win a battle
for hearts and minds if we are seen to be torturing and abusing
people in our care."
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From: Jo Ann Schwartz
Date: Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:17 pm
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Page from Ahriman's Playbook/
Global Catharsis
Bradford comments;
I am sick and tired of hearing how Terrorists
are inhuman. The living lie is that Palastine and Arabs just
have got all the oil and we just won't leave them alone and the
Whining Israel Lords of American Economy have planned for these
times and we all have fallen for it. Terrorists wouldn't become
terrorists at all if all the diabolical sinister betrayals and
scoffing at humanity and fairness didn't come from the very top
of every selfish decision we make.
Reminds me of one of my favorite protest signs:
"How did our oil get beneath their desert?"
Give 'em hell...
Musing on man's inhumanity to man....
JoAnn
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From: Frank Thomas Smith
Date: Wed Jun 30, 2004 1:19 pm
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Page from Ahriman's Playbook/
Global Catharsis
How about this scenario: Bush & co. really
believed that there were WMDs in Iraq and that Saddam constituted
a real and present danger? The oil was also a consideration,
but not the prime cause. In either case, though, nothing imo
can excuse the suicide bombers, or rather the cynical power brokers
(Bin Laden, Arafat, etc.) behind them who don't, after all, blow
themselves up. Inhuman no, diabolical nihilists yes. Now don't
blow your top, Bradford.
Frank
Bradford comments;
I am sick and tired of hearing how Terrorists
are inhuman. The living lie is that Palastine and Arabs just
have got all the oil and we just won't leave them alone and the
Whining Israel Lords of American Economy have planned for these
times and we all have fallen for it. Terrorists wouldn't become
terrorists at all if all the diabolical sinister betrayals and
scoffing at humanity and fairness didn't come from the very top
of every selfish decision we make.
Reminds me of one of my favorite protest
signs:
"How did our oil get beneath their
desert?"
Give 'em hell...
Musing on man's inhumanity to man....
JoAnn
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From: holderlin66
Date: Wed Jun 30, 2004 2:15 pm
Subject: Re: Page from Ahriman's Playbook/ Global Catharsis
Frank Thomas Smith wrote:
How about this scenario: Bush & co.
really believed that there were WMDs in Iraq and that Saddam
constituted a real and present danger? The oil was also a consideration,
but not the prime cause. In either case, though, nothing imo
can excuse the suicide bombers, or rather the cynical power brokers
(Bin Laden, Arafat, etc.) behind them who don't, after all, blow
themselves up. Inhuman no, diabolical nihilists yes. Now don't
blow your top, Bradford.
Bradford raises up on his high horse;
Over the top, too much, make a big deal, throw
a hissy fit! Frank, what do you take me far? Everyone knows I
am a calm Olympian pie salesman. I just throw the pies, who knows
where they land. If someones face gets in the way of my pie...now
who is to blame. They should watch where I throw my pies...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan4.html
"This is the war we are
losing. And to win this struggle, the United States needs to
do three things that may go against the political interests of
both parties: Stand up for justice for the Palestinians. Remove
our imperial presence. Cease to intervene in their internal affairs.
We Americans once stood for
all that. And if we go only where we are invited, we would be
invited more often to come and help.
[reverse snip]
"Thus, it is a good time
to attempt to draw up an interim profit-and- loss statement of
what President Bush has accomplished in what he calls the "War
on Terror." Who is winning this war?
To answer that question, we
must first ask and answer antecedent questions. What is the war
about? What are we fighting for? Who, exactly, is the enemy in
this war? What is he fighting for?
Since 9-11, the president's
objectives have been to exact retribution for the massacre, overthrow
the Taliban enablers of Osama, run Al Qaeda out of Afghanistan,
remove Saddam, disarm Iraq and defend America. He has attained
them all. Yet, 54 percent of Americans believe invading Iraq
was a mistake. The nation understands that something has gone
wrong.
The nation is right. For what
this war is really about is who shall rule in the Islamic world.
Will it be the men who share our views and values? Or will it
be True Believers who will purge that world of what they see
as our odious and corrupt presence?
What our enemies seek in the
great Sunni Triangle from Rabat to Chechnya to Mindanao is what
the Iranian Revolution achieved: to be rid of the Americans and
of rulers that they view as vile puppets of the United States,
to purify their societies and to unite their world against the
West.
If this is indeed the ultimate
goal of the radical Islamists, the U.S. invasion of Iraq was
a strategic victory for the enemy.
Consider what has happened
as a result of our war on Iraq. An enemy of Islamic fundamentalism,
Saddam, has been removed. His secular Ba'ath Party is gone. A
vacuum has opened up in Iraq that the Islamists and their allies
may one day fill. The Arab world has been radicalized and supports
the Iraqi resistance in its drive to defeat and expel the Americans.
The destabilization of the
Saudi monarchy through terror has begun. Rulers in Arab countries
have been forced to distance themselves from the Americans if
they wish to retain the support of their people. Western tourists
are staying away from the Middle East, Western investment is
on hold, and Western workers have begun to depart Saudi Arabia
and Iraq.
"There exists today a
hatred of Americans never equaled in the region," Egyptian
President Mubarak told Le Monde. "In the beginning, some
people thought the Americans were helping them. There was no
hatred toward Americans. After what happened in Iraq, there is
an unprecedented hatred and the Americans know it."
This longtime friend added,
"American and Israeli interests are not safe, not only in
our region but in other parts of the world, in Europe, in America,
anywhere in the world." The war on Iraq into which his neo-conservative
advisers prodded the president seems to have ignited the very
"war of civilizations" between Islam and America that
the president said he wanted to avoid.
Raised to believe in the innate
goodness of America and the nobility of her purposes, President
Bush finds it hard to believe the best recruiting tool Al Qaeda
and the Iraqi insurgents have is the presence on Iraqi soil of
the U.S. soldiers he sent to "liberate" Iraq. "
Bradford concludes;
Frank I gave you more virgins than you deserve.
I gave most everybody 72 virgins and you have used most of those
virgins up. Now for the Anthro Impaired, this goes back to exactly
what Luciferic Paradigm, not unlike "Heavens Gate"
paradigm, certify, REgistered Trademark, LUCIFER! As to how various
failed idea from the great thinkers of the East and the great
thinkers of the West, have failed to understand the 72 virgin
insight I laid out awhile back on this list.
What Prophets do they listen to? What Prophets,
under the Neocon sun do we listen to? Everyone of them are stupid.
Now you want to split hairs with someone who isn't paying attention
my dear beloved Frank, do so. But unless you can move the argument
into the sphere of failed thinking capacities in both the East
and West and a failed attempt at a humanistic resolution of tragedy
in Palastine, you are just a kindly ole Virgin pouncer.
If this argument was too abstract and vague
for you Frank. We got issues. Maybe you had put in a search on
this list for 72 and see what you come up with. All my love brother
Frank and your little dog too.
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From: dottie zold
Date: Wed Jun 30, 2004 8:21 pm
Subject: Re: Page from Ahriman's Playbook/ Global Catharsis
Bradford:
Consider what has happened
as a result of our war on Iraq. An enemy of Islamic fundamentalism,
Saddam, has been removed. His secular Ba'ath Party is gone. A
vacuum has opened up in Iraq that the Islamists and their allies
may one day fill. The Arab world has been radicalized and supports
the Iraqi resistance in its drive to defeat and expel the Americans.
And consider what else has happened as a result
of this war: the sleeping giant has awoken within. The political
party split has been swayed back towards unity. The people are
asking questions and are waking up to the lies political parties
will tell. Suddenly the politicians are being seen for the manipulative
son of a guns that they are. Truly. America and her people are
awakening from a long sleep as are the middle eastern communities.
And we are seeing the Pentagon and we are seeing the Authorative
powers that be in Washington being brought to their knees. The
country is facing a cataclysmic opportunity to awaken to the
horrors of war and those that lie to get their way.
Not only did the sleeping giant awaken within
our neighborhoods but they are also awakening us to the Media
and the devil that beats within it. This is all for future endeavors
and they all have their tales between their legs. (What a saying)
Anyhow, we are now preparing for that which will come down the
road with the Anti-Christ. We shall remember this moment. And
Mr. Bush, Osama and Saddam have served us well. Believe it or
not. If it has happened all we can look at is what it serves
for the future. We can not look back other than to see how we
might do things better. And now we have a frame of reference
that serves the Angel of Peace. We shall not fall into that whole
'patriotic' bullshit that turned one against the other. We have
been played once in this lifetime and will not have it happen
again.
My thoughts,
d
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From: Jo Ann Schwartz
Date: Thu Jul 1, 2004 9:21 am
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Page from Ahriman's Playbook/
Global Catharsis
--- Frank Thomas Smith wrote:
How about this scenario: Bush & co.
really believed that there were WMDs in Iraq and that Saddam
constituted a real and present danger? The oil was also a consideration,
but not the prime cause. In either case, though, nothing imo
can excuse the suicide bombers, or rather the cynical power brokers
(Bin Laden, Arafat, etc.) behind them who don't, after all, blow
themselves up. Inhuman no, diabolical nihilists yes.
Querido Frankie mio,
I agree that BushCo probably believed there
were WMDs in Iraq. I thought Richard Clarke phrased it quite
nicely back in March, when he noted that the BushCo team seemed
"preserved in amber"** -- unwilling or unable to acknowledge
that the world had changed in the eight years they had been out
of power.
IMNHO, both BushCo and the terrorist camps
are filled with cynical power brokers who don't, after all, blow
themselves up. Diabolical nihilists indeed.
Musing on where have all the soldiers gone...
JoAnn
** Fuller quote:
"I blame the entire Bush leadership for
continuing to work on Cold War issues when they [came] back in
power in 2001. It was as though they were preserved in amber
from when they left office eight years earlier. They came back.
They wanted to work on the same issues right away: Iraq, Star
Wars. Not new issues, the new threats that had developed over
the preceding eight years." Richard Clarke on CBS, March
2004 [Thanks to Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo for preserving
the quote: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/002737.php
]
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From: holderlin66
Date: Sun Jul 11, 2004 6:33 pm
Subject: Page from Ahriman's Playbook/ Global Catharsis
"Rumsfeld's twenty-four
detention facilities used in the "Global War on Terror"
- including sites in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Jordan, and
aboard U.S. Navy warships like the USS Bataan - were exposed
and demonstrated that the Bush administration is quite capable
of running Soviet-style Gulags."
Bradford comments;
So what is under this rat's nest? Sometimes
you think we are somehow kidding about the SS, Nazi comparisons
and fascism. Somehow Ahrimanic Symptomology, is certainly not
a fun item for summer contemplation, I agree. Nor is it fun to
consider the 24 potential two times 12 detention centers, run
by Israel torture experts, Skinheads recruited out of the U.S.
and here we have Rumsfeld still at his post and us trying Saddam
for Warcrimes. Sham and Shame when the growing monsters are right
under our noses, in our own house and Senate, in these nests
of liars...but it is only a matter of inwardly knowing what it
is you see and what it is you know. For if you know these things
that the Press will not tell the world, you cannot be duped again
and again to follow Soul Retardation and a President into the
destruction of a country and a people illegally and merely say
OOPs to the world community!
Powerful lessons laid on the foundation of
human life and stare us in the face. It seems to happen every
generation or so. We can be thankful for all we see, if we look
carefuly today. We see the Shadow subculture of Asuras as Steiner
clearly indicated coming up slowly from below. We can look at
clear definitions of Soul development parading in photo op after
photo op. Bush as a Sentient/ uncultured Intellect Soul retard
is the wonderful flawed gem that was chosen to be manipulated
by a very powerful Ahrimanic group. Project for a New American
Century has used the shadowy fruits of the most advanced Intellectual
Soul, Wolf/Rome education of Political Science, that goes right
back to Weimar and Leo Strass and Ahriman's first strike intent,
and shifts right over to the crack in the world, where Christ
was crucified and tore the fabric of the world between Ahriman
and Lucifer in twain, The State of Israel. Who really stole the
I.D.'s of Saudi Arabia and crashed into the Twin Towers, Jachim
and Boaz? Who would drool to see Islam crushed?
Raw, undigested Fundamentalism and Ahrimanized
Intellect shape the world in judaism, christianinity and islam.
While hanging on the fringes the Michael School pieces together
the torn fragments of intention and motive. It learns that indeed,
Ahriman is like rust, it never dies. And instead of mature humans
with insight, we require the Luciferic forces of Islam now, in
the 21st century to resist Ahriman and in resisting cause Orwellian,
endless War destruction. These are the choices humanity constantly
makes. Never willingly to become conscious of itself. Here the
Christ Event studied in Spiritual Science is looked upon as Evil
and Enemy number one in every Fundamentalist gathering. The great
deeds of Initiates, the work of Angels and Brotherhood on Earth,
burning lessons in sifting the horrific motives of mankind. Motives
that only Spiritual Science and mature humanism can shed light
on...make all of fundamentalism hysterical with withhunts for
evil doers and calls for crusades Jihaders alike.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=16948
"Feith created the disinformation
about Iraqi WMDs and then Rumsfeld/Cambone used torture as a
tactic to elicit false confessions and exaggerated claims under
extreme duress. It is a tactic that SS Commander Heinrich Himmler
and Soviet KGB Chief Levrenti Beria practiced so well in Germany
and the USSR, respectively. No one claims that the USA and Israel
rise to the level of Nazi and Soviet torturers, but, it is too
early to say.
The potential recruitment
pool in the USA among American racist organizations, incited
by George Bush and many American "holy land" ideologues
in power in Washington, DC, makes for bad dreams. Middle Ages
Crusade propaganda still sells! Add to that the constant propaganda
about "the other races hate our way of life" (might
they want to charge a fair price for fuel) vomited from the US
news media and the madness of Rumsfeld's worldview (imagine the
idiocy of a Rumsfeld who could marvel that US soldiers have digital
cameras and that he stands-up for 8 to10 hours a day so, then
why can't prisoners?) - makes one wonder about his connection
to reality. So goes the DOD.
They, like their American
counterparts, make for great recruits. The scary part is that
neither government can control them - or, perhaps, does not want
to get involved.
Unfortunately, the question
of the legality of Rumsfeld's personal intelligence operation
in TortureGate, and all the connections, has received the glancing
interest of Congress and the US media. But as more evidence of
the illegal nature of the Pentagon's operations comes to light,
and that of its associates, there is a clear need for the International
Criminal Court to conduct its own investigation of the role of
Rumsfeld's ersatz intelligence operation in committing human
rights abuses in Iraq and elsewhere around the world.
Rumsfeld's twenty-four detention
facilities used in the "Global War on Terror" - including
sites in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Jordan, and aboard U.S.
Navy warships like the USS Bataan - were exposed and demonstrated
that the Bush administration is quite capable of running Soviet-style
Gulags."
holderlin wrote:
Rumsfeld, if you can even swallow such
trite crap, says he did permit some things, like blindfolding,
or standing for a longer than four hours, you know, a little
less food on tuesdays and no movies on saturdays, but only for
gittmo. What watered down jingo is this? "Bring em ON"-
Take the gloves off, Screw the U.N., Screw the Geneva Convention.
How utterly gutless every single Senate and Rep remains in the
business of covering for Ahriman. Yep, we all got Ahriman in
us, but when you are shamefully his tool for all the world to
see and Washington so reeks of it, enough so that Hitler keeps
coming to everyone's mind, someone needs to hose down the whole
sewer.
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From: holderlin66
Date: Wed Jul 14, 2004 11:38 pm
Subject: Re: Page from Ahriman's Playbook/ Global Catharsis
"Rumsfeld's twenty-four
detention facilities used in the "Global War on Terror"-including
sites in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Jordan, and aboard U.S.
Navy warships like the USS Bataan-were exposed and demonstrated
that the Bush administration is quite capable of running Soviet-style
Gulags."
http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2444
...................................................................................................................................
From: holderlin66
Date: Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:55 am
Subject: Page from Ahriman's Playbook/ Global Catharsis
holderlin wrote:
"Rumsfeld's twenty-four
detention facilities used in the "Global War on Terror"
- including sites in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Jordan, and
aboard U.S. Navy warships like the USS Bataan - were exposed
and demonstrated that the Bush administration is quite capable
of running Soviet-style Gulags."
http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2444
"Seymour Hersh says the
US government has videotapes of boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib
prison in Iraq. "The worst is the soundtrack of the boys
shrieking," the reporter told an ACLU convention last week.
Hersh says there was "a massive amount of criminal wrongdoing
that was covered up at the highest command out there, and higher."
Some of the worse that happened
that you don't know about, ok. Videos, there are women there.
Some of you may have read they were passing letters, communications
out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib which is 30 miles from
Baghdad [...] The women were passing messages saying "Please
come and kill me, because of what's happened". Basically
what happened is that those women who were arrested with young
boys/children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were
sodomized with the cameras rolling. The worst about all of them
is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government
has. They are in total terror it's going to come out.
It's impossible to say to
yourself how do we get there? who are we? Who are these people
that sent us there?"
http://www.aclu.org/2004memberconf/Program/program.htm
Gala Dinner: America at a Crossroads: Journalists
and Artists Share Their Perspectives (video) Speakers include
writer and radio commentator Sandra Tsing Loh,filmmaker John
Sayles presents clips from his latest film, and keynote address
by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. Entertainment by comedian
Greg Proops.
Bradford Previously ranted;
As for Asuras well, with Torture techniques,
Sadistic Porno, Snuff videos and public beheadings as well as
the private stock of pictures from various torture chambers in
Israel, Abu Ghraib and other places, we are drifting into the
shattering Asuric tastes that Steiner described. This has become
a Lilth theme that apparently leads to Sorath's central shattered
I AM mystery.
How about we try Saddam and Bush, one in
Baghdad the other at the Hague for War crimes. Have you any idea,
dear friends, have you any idea at all, in our thick heads, what
would happen if we were able to see all the footage of the torture,
rape, and murder videos and photographs that the Military is
sitting on now? Do you have any idea what an outrage the entire
world would have? I say show them all, and make a humanitarian
museum out of Abu Ghraib. Show the pattern of how Nazi culture
almost took over the 21st century. Show the players, the lies
and the deceptions.
The country would sizzle as Sy Hersh who
has seen these tapes knows. Michael Moore's little film, would
look like a nice Disney cartoon, compared to the atrocity ridden
film from torture sessions the military is keeping from the public.
Show the Asuric torture schools so we can get a handle on hypocrisy
and cognition before we sail into more nightmares without a compass.
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