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31 de Agosto, 2007

Home of the Cage, Land of the Dog Box

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: CIA, gonzales, The Trials

PERHAPS one day I will feel vindicated for the absolute madness that threatens to corrode my thinking process at each moment I dare to think about what our nation is doing to others in our names. While many people seem somewhat sane and copasetic as they discuss our crimes against humanity, I feel as if I cannot stand another moment of awareness of these realities. Which is why, of course, I said I understood (to some degree of ridicule off-site) when some people decide they simply cannot live anymore as a part of our New Freedomy USA. Perhaps one day, when The Trials explode onto the world's stage and we begin our true cleansing and accounting for this evil we have enjoined, I can begin to calm and feel there is hope for humanity.

If we, the people, are ultimately condemned by a world court for our complicity and silence in these war crimes, we can always try to echo those Germans who claimed not to know what Hitler and his enforcers were doing. But in Nazi Germany, people had no way of insisting on finding out what happened to their disappeared neighbors.
We, however, have the right and the power to insist that Congress discover and reveal the details of the torture and other brutalities that the CIA has been inflicting in our name on terrorism suspects.

Only one congressman, Oregon's Democratic senator Ron Wyden, has insisted on probing the legality of the CIA's techniques-so much so that Wyden has blocked the appointment of Bush's nominee, John Rizzo, from becoming the CIA's top lawyer. [...]

As Jane Mayer told National Public Radio on August 6, what she found in the leaked Red Cross report, and through her own extensive research on our interrogators (who are cheered on by the commander in chief), is 'a top-down-controlled, mechanistic, regimented program of abuse that was signed off on-at the White House, really-and then implemented at the CIA from the top levels all the way down. . . . They would put people naked for up to 40 days in cells where they were deprived of any kind of light. They would cut them off from any sense of what time it was or . . . anything that would give them a sense of where they were.'

She also told of the CIA interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, who was not only waterboarded (a technique in which he was made to feel that he was about to be drowned) but also 'kept in . . . a small cage, about one meter [39.7 inches] by one meter, in which he couldn't stand up for a long period of time. [The CIA] called it the dog box.'"

--History Will Not Absolve Us, Nat Hentoff@Truthout.org

Seriously, CIA torturer: what makes you think you are better than your suspects? When you torture them in these ways? And remember, each person you sadistically attack in this way may be an "evildoer," but each time you torture a person like this, you ARE an evildoer. So tell me again, how are you better?

Yes, I say, unequivocally, TORTURE. You see, I am not a lawyer, gunstooge, but let me tell you something. If I put you in a box three feet big, stripped you naked and left you in the dark, you would not be quibbling with me about definitions. You would understand torture. And in my opinion, if you are going to be resurrecting ancient crimes in the name of Liberty and Freedom, you really ought to have your understandings of words clarified by personal experience.

 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 9:00 AM.  | Top | View blog reactions