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The American Gulag: Another Man's story

It seems as if every time I scan the web for news, another story of the attrocities being committed by the U.S. goverment and their cohorts in repressive Fascist regimes around the world, comes to light. I don't think anyone reading this story can imagine the agony this man suffered. The men who perpetrated this as well as the men in our governement who put this man in their hands need to be brought to justice. The people in the top levels of the U.S. goverment: George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and all of those involved in perpetrating these attrocities must be brought before an international tribunal and made to answer for their dark deeds.

'One of them made cuts in my penis. I was in agony'

Counter Military Recruitment

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?  --Gandhi

This site takes the approach that youth need to know the truth about war and not the military propaganda used to glorify war, specifically poverty recruitment, where we use the most disadvantaged of our society by convincing them that they will be given a bright future in exchange for doing their country's bidding, if they live and if they don't return home as broken men.

http://notyoursoldier.org/

International Terrorism: The U.S. Military in Paraguay

The U.S. miltary has recently begun setting up a military base in Paraguay. From the article:

On May 26, 2005 the Paraguayan senate approved the entrance of the troops, granting them total immunity, free from Paraguayan and International Criminal Court jurisdiction.

What is the U.S. Military Doing in Paraguay?

Iraq: No Exit

From the article:

Yet while Bush remains stubbornly committed to the war, sources within the Pentagon say military planners tell the President the war cannot be won and the U.S. may have to look for a Vietnam-style withdrawal that will leave Iraq vulnerable to forces even more dangerous than the previous dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.

"Our present scenarios do not provide a successful outcome," admits a senior military planner. "We are not adequately equipped to prevail in this conflict."

Military Planners Tell Bush Iraq War 'Cannot be Won'

The American Gulag: Health Care Professionals involved in torture

From the article: this is exactly what the Germans did in WWII. It is a direct contravention of medical ethics:

According to the report, prisoners do not have any medical confidentiality, which allows medical personnel to use what they have learned to aid in interrogations.

"Contrary to what the Bush administration has said, the rule is no confidentiality for the detainees at Guantanamo," said study co-author Dr. M. Gregg Bloche, a law professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. "Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs William Winkenwerder said as recently as last week that confidentiality protections and exceptions were analogous to those enjoyed by American citizens."

However, there is a standing order that has not previously been reported, he said. Dated August 2002, Bloche said, the order requires health-care providers to report any information of potential interest to medical and non-medical personnel at Guantanamo.

"In addition, in a systematic fashion, medical information was employed by behavioral science consultants to support the interrogation process," Bloche said. "These behavioral scientists, typically a psychiatrist and psychologist, were assigned to a Behavioral Science Consultation Team."

These consultants had access to medical records and used them to develop profiles that could be used to help interrogators, Bloche said.

Health Professionals Involved in Guantanamo Interrogations

U.S. doctors linked to POW ` torture'

The American Gulag: the Shredding of the Constitution

In this report written jointly by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union the Bush administration's blatant disregard for the Constitution of the U.S. and the rule of law reveals Bush and his cronies to be what they truly are: International Criminals who only respect naked power and have not the least regard for the very foundations of the Democracy that they claim to be exporting to the world. These men are guilty of the most egregious form of treason possible in a Democracy.

From the report, the testimony of one individual, then anti-president Bush's statement. Can you ever believe anything he says?

After I got in the cell I went kind of crazy. I was calling the guards to find out exactly what was my crime. Where’s my lawyer if I have a lawyer. Because nobody told us anything. What’s going to happen or what’s going on. Nobody answered me so I kept banging on the door. Of course I start crying. … The guard came, the supervisor or something. He starts yelling at me. I yelled back and I said [I] need to know why I am here. I need to talk to somebody. He said we don’t know, once we know, we will let you know. I felt he didn’t know why we were being held. I had nothing to do but sit and cry. That’s technically all we did. Sit and pray and cry. Sit and pray and cry.
—Tarek Albasti, a U.S. citizen detained in October 2001 by the U.S. Department of Justice as a material witness and held in solitary confinement in a federal prison in Chicago. The Department of Justice later apologized to him.

Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation.
—President George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 2003

Summary

Human Rights Abuses under the Material Witness Law since September 11

The American Gulag: Rigged trials

A key characteristic of fascist governments is the belief that they are above the rules. Breaking the law is seen as necessary. In this article, e-mails revealing that the Guantanamo "trials" are being rigged, we see this philosophy in operation. Only the thinnest of verniers covers their illegal operations....

Leaked emails claim Guantanamo trials rigged