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American way of torture. President George Bush disagrees. "This government
does not torture people," he insisted , after reports ...
... is in a way sickened by the everyday all-American life he ... Chopping, shooting, slashing,
and beating his way to new heights of perfection in torture and pain ...
... acts that the NVA and Vietcong (VC) committed against American POWs. ... trying to rip
my ARM off?5 This torture bound the subject's arms in such a way as to ...
... acts that the NVA and Vietcong (VC) committed against American POWs. ... trying to rip
my ARM off?5 This torture bound the subject's arms in such a way as to ...
... few days after birth to puberty, but in some regions, the torture can be ... active in
the fight against FGM, she is an American filmmaker ... She has come a long way. ...
Submitted by khanzadha on October 17, 2007
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President George Bush disagrees. "This government does not torture people," he insisted , after reports emerged that in 2005, the U.S. Justice Department had secretly endorsed such painful interrogation techniques. Claiming that highly trained individuals from the CIA conducted the interrogation of terrorism suspects in keeping with U.S. and international law, Bush offered that it was all done for the sake of protecting the American people.
It is time for those same American people to pay attention to what is being done in their name.
Never mind the unjustified wars launched in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Those wars were "over there" and many Americans started to pay real attention only when the numbers of American casualties started to get uncomfortably close to the numbers slaughtered during the 9/11 attacks.
And attacks on civil liberties? Their victims were mostly the brown and the Muslim. They were the ones detained and deported on the slightest immigration violations. It was brown and Muslim men who were visited by the FBI shortly after 9/11 and asked if they knew anyone who had celebrated the attacks. My brother was one of those men asked.
Those brown and Muslim men were the ones who had to submit to the humiliation of Special Registration, being fingerprinted and photographed like common criminals for the files of Homeland Security. Again, my brother, a physician, was one of those men.
But don't forget: What is done to the brown and Muslim today can be done to all Americans tomorrow.
And where to start with the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the U.S. continues to hold hundreds of Muslim men without charge or trial for close to six years now? Or the CIA's use of secret prisons overseas to question terrorism suspects? Bush claims they are for the sake of the American people.
For those who share Bush's fondness...
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