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Ferre
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 Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:54 am Post subject: Ominous Parallels Between American and Gestapo Policies |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/opinion/14rich2.html
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By any legal standards except those rubber-stamped by Alberto Gonzales, we are practicing torture, and we have known we are doing so ever since photographic proof emerged from Abu Ghraib more than three years ago. As Andrew Sullivan, once a Bush cheerleader, observed last weekend in The Sunday Times of London, America’s “enhanced interrogation” techniques have a grotesque provenance: “Verschärfte Vernehmung, enhanced or intensified interrogation, was the exact term innovated by the Gestapo to describe what became known as the ‘third degree.’ It left no marks. It included hypothermia, stress positions and long-time sleep deprivation.”
Still, the drill remains the same. The administration gives its alibi (Abu Ghraib was just a few bad apples). A few members of Congress squawk. The debate is labeled “politics.” We turn the page.
There has been scarcely more response to the similarly recurrent story of apparent war crimes committed by our contractors in Iraq. Call me cynical, but when Laura Bush spoke up last week about the human rights atrocities in Burma, it seemed less an act of selfless humanitarianism than another administration maneuver to change the subject from its own abuses. |
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Brother Adam
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I think it's funny at the end where he assumes all that's left to save is "what's left of Americas good name".....I guess he didn't get the memo. There is NO more good name for America. The first torture photo wasn't when that happened. It was on 9-11-01 when we were DUPED by yet ANOTHER Israeli false flag attack and every day since for chasing the wrong criminals.
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