Having A Fit
ocuments Confirm U.S. Hid Detainees From Red Cross:
The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents that a Senate committee released Tuesday.
”We may need to curb the harsher operations while ICRC is around. It is better not to expose them to any controversial techniques,” Lt. Col. Diane Beaver, a military lawyer who’s since retired, said during an October 2002 meeting at the Guantanamo Bay prison to discuss employing interrogation techniques that some have equated with torture. Her comments were recorded in minutes of the meeting that were made public Tuesday. At that same meeting, Beaver also appeared to confirm that U.S. officials at another detention facility — Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan — were using sleep deprivation to “break” detainees well before then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld approved that technique. “True, but officially it is not happening,” she is quoted as having said.
Seriously. How much more proof do you people need? Who do I have to fuck around here to get some assholes put in jail? I mean, “controversial techniques”? How about “illegal shit we don’t want anyone to catch us doing”? Wouldn’t that be a more honest way to put things? If it wasn’t illegal, why’d they have to hide the “detainees”? “Controversial” is Britany Spears flashing her beaver at the paparazzi by accident, not hiding the POWs you’ve been torturing from the Red Cross when they come through.
I just can’t believe it. We’ve caught this administration red-handed more times than I can count doing illegal crap, and we’re going to let them get away with it. It makes me ill. Every time I find something like this, I’m left bug-eyed and shaking my head, completely mentally clusterfucked at the concept of the American people letting their government get away with this shit. I am agog with horror that this goes on, and Americans, who are not supposed to tolerate this sort of behavior from their government, are simply sitting at home watching the TV and worrying about the polar bears. Pitchforks and torches, people! Actually, we are well past the pitchfork and torch phase, here.
I’m struck speechless.
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June 19th, 2008 at 12:54 am
I just don’t know what to say anymore.
However, if these officials are not brought to justice then I will simply have to renouce the governments authority over me.
Cause if the government is breaking their own laws then said laws are meaningless.