Comments on: Tortured To Death

By: johnhkennedy

johnhkennedy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:03:58 +0000

The only way President Obama and our Congressional Democrats may ever claim to be enforcing our US Federal Anti-Torture Laws
Is To Prosecute Those Who Tortured
In Our Name.

There is no substitute. An unenforced law means an official isn’t doing their job
AND IT COULD Mean that OBAMA IS SOFT ON CRIME.

Push Obama to do the right thing.

SIGN THE PETITION
calling for Prosecution of the Torturers

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By: wavpeac

wavpeac — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:45:06 +0000

and some critics of America think Americans aren’t willing to make sacrifices for important causes…like for…games.

By: Leen

Leen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:39:23 +0000

U.S. “shining city on a hill” horseshit!

So many folks around the world know that these claims of the moral high groung that the U.s. leaders and others like to repeat rings hollow around the world. People know words are cheap and the American public likes to hide behind those words and pretend that these horrific crimes are not being committed in their names.
Most Americans have to get to church and the mall quickly and just do not have the time to be concerned

By: BayStateLibrul

BayStateLibrul — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:09:18 +0000

Let’s go on a hunger strike til we get the IG Report…

“If you’re at the Taste of Chicago Friday, and you see a guy cramming slabs of deep dish pizza into his mouth like there’s no tomorrow, stay out of his way.
It may well be Daniel Kamen, a Buffalo Grove chiropractor who is vowing to go on a 500-calorie-a-day diet until his beloved Cubs put together a five-game winning streak — something that has eluded them so far this season.”

Chicago Sun-Times

By: Garrett

Garrett — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:15:30 +0000

There is another autopsy with “deep red-purple lungs”: DOD003235

This guy was very very badly beaten. They fractured his ribs in all sorts of ways. Classified as homicide, blunt force trauma and asphyxia.

If it’s the asphyxiation not the beating that would cause it, then deep red-purple lungs can mean: shackled to the top of a doorframe with a gag in your mouth, for long enough a period that your pants are covered in shit.

By: tbau

tbau — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:58:05 +0000

mr. firewall is too busy looking forward

By: fatster

fatster — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:39:13 +0000

I found a little fragment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6lPePaq06U

By: fatster

fatster — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:23:30 +0000

U B funnee. No, it’s about fascism-fighting, a most noble and essential cause for all kinds of reasons, freedom being very high on the list. Good film. Do see it if you can (if you didn’t already).

By: MarkH

MarkH — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:57:52 +0000

I’m guessing To Die in Madrid isn’t about bullfighting?

By: prostratedragon

prostratedragon — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:31:07 +0000

As I was looking for a good visual of a peroneal strike* a link came up from a book I’d never heard of called Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality by Stephen Poole. One language example Poole (beginning Chapter 7) takes apart comes precisely from the Army’s investigation of the deaths of Dilawar and another Bagram prisoner who was similarly beaten. It is a good introduction to his general topic of the misuse of language surrounding the torture regime. The same passage Worthington quotes from the soldier who called the affair “a running joke” helps to give the lie to the language of the report.

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* Nothing; but one could check out flash vids of the muay thai-style matches of a fighter named Ernesto Hoost, who uses a version of the technique with frequently devastating effectiveness.