This is sad, I wonder when the Forth branch of this renagade government are going to stand up.

I’ve spent almost 24 hours contemplating this man’s words. And I read here Comment #52647, and I’m not even sure what that person is saying. And I have to completely agree with the words of Comments #52652 and #52641. I’m wondering if others haven’t commented yet because, like me, this is something that makes one totally speechless. It puts into words what we all know already.

And it should make everyone realize, soon if not already, that the truth is as Martin Luther King, Jr. and so many other true leaders of “people” have said:

Silence is Sanction

I needed an outlet regarding this man’s words myself, and addressed it on my own website at:

http://www.civilgideon.com/portal/index.php/site/article/silence_is_sanction/

And I wonder why people don’t see the parallels, the similarities, of what is being done by Americans in other cultures, happening here in the U.S. as well in so many ways.

As I say in my quick essay on my site:

“Because only a society that would do this at “home” would do it to another culture in another country.”

As more and more of these ‘stories’ come out, I wonder how many will have the courage to face that what is being done, and ALLOWED to continue through silence, is a reflection of how Americans themselves have been living their lives.

How many will have the courage to stand up, finally, to say “NO” ... to actually take the stand and not yield. It is frightening, it often hurts, there is seldom glory or reward at the beginning. Yet if one doesn’t do this for the Self, the price that will be paid will be higher than any ‘discomfort.’

We don’t have to just speak out against this war and the atrocities that are happening. We also need to take action with respect to what is happening in our communities, our States, our judicial system, and all of the other “systems” we deal with a on a daily basis.

It’s time to take a long, hard and honest look at ourselves, and not through the distortions of the mirrors we have created to see only what we want to see.

Denial is as much a crime as silence.

And remember, the only reason the mighty oak exists is because a nut stood its ground!

I first read this article in the Washington Post online, and I’ve been going back to it to scan the comments from readers (one of the features that I enjoy about the WaPo.) It amazes me how many of the commenters call Fair names because he has regrets about what he did. They still take the Rush Limbaugh line about how sleep deprivation and freezing isolation is not so bad, and that America should be vicious to anyone it captures. They’re a minority on the comment board, but it indicates to me that there are still many Americans who don’t object to being as bestial as Nazis. Reminds me again of why I’m so sickened by Americans that I had to leave.

Then there is the flip side, people who condemn the guy for being a mercenary. No doubt he was, but he’s repented, yet still they slag him. Getting that kind of reception is likely to make people keep their horror stories under wraps.

Isn’t it amazing that the one, singular, incident of torture just happened to be caught on camera?  What are the odds?  Shamefully, the only change wrought by the Abu Ghraib horrors: NO CAMERAS ALLOWED in U.S. military prisons.

I’m sure this is only a small example of the real atrocities committed in the so-called “name of democracy” in Iraq. When is there going to be a time to hold all of those responsible accountable for their illegal actions? It must be sooner, rather than later!! And let’s begin at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!!!

Big Al said “this is unspeakably sad.” I call it a tragedy.

What is a tragedy is, as the “Interrogator” put it “While I was appalled by the conduct of my friends and colleagues, I lacked the courage to challenge the status quo. That was a failure of character and in many ways made me complicit in what went on.”

The American PEOPLE, in sufficient numbers, for some mysterious reason lack the courage to challenge those set in authority over them who clearly and deliberately ignore the Constitution and the law. If the American people don’t challenge these criminals, who will? The Chinese?There is nothing that can be done to help those who won’t help themselves.

America is in a coma on life support. I wonder what’s going to pull the plug?

There’re absolutely no tortures anywhere. Bush/Cheney/Gonzales laws are beautiful so don’t worry. They are sitting on the laws then peeing down with shameless faces. Their skin faces are so thick.

i was born in 1958. while i was waiting to cash in on the beatles’ peace dividend, all i saw around me were people doing devil signs with their hands, frothing, and exponentially diminishing the returns of jimi hendrix’ brilliance with their anti-musical metal, punk and techno noise,and working hard to have a cold blooded cynic’s response to everything down to your mother’s death.. this was the propaganda stealth marketing of anti-peace forces coming from george w. bush’s branch of christianity: Satanism. CIA, bush’s family business has been pushing this stealth marketing since they brought those nazi psy-ops guys out of germany. read sammy davis’ bio ” why me ” for the state of these ” parties ” in the 60’s.
boy bush’s pseudo-reign is one big black mass we’re all stuck in for his entertainment.

There is no reason to believe that the handling of the prisoners was not much, much worse than its supporters have claimed. We have the people who were mistakenly identified as terrorists, with their tales of abuse and being held for extended periods of time, which in itself is abuse of innocent people.

No real effort has been made by the government to sift thru the prisoners and identify the ones who are actual persons of interests, against those that were merely in the wrong place at the wrong time and since many people who were in wrong place at wrong time were in their own homes and neighborhoods—-where else could they be?

The reason for conventions against inhumane treatment is that whatever the claims for doing so, it soon becomes an outlet for mean and vicious persons and it really is about intimidation and manipulation of the innocent along with the guilty.

We must never forget that this behavior was against the laws of our own culture and against the International Laws. I might forgive the use if it were directed solely at the guilty, but it was used on people with no real interest in their guilt or innocense. It was a crime, it is a crime and the current administration should be prosecuted for it, right to Bush/Cheney/Rumsfield. Not to do so leaves a gapping hole in our civil protections and I can guarantee that it will be exploited if allowed to stand, by any party that is in power. History shows this to be true and our founding fathers went to great lengths to write a constitution and bill of rights to protect us from this abuse. This administration in its own words have admitted to repeated breaking of the law they swore to uphold and protect, not to mention repeated claims that they have complete right to make and break laws, which they do not have. The big question is why haven’t they been impeached and convicted and removed from the offices that they have contaminated and tried to destroy?

Like everything in the Global War of Terror, it’s phony. Why physically torutre anyone? You want info., use drugs. You want to terrorize, use torture. You want your own charges to know how ruthless you are, make them do the torture. Make sure they and everyone else knows who’s in charge and if they don’t like it, to just STFU!

It’s all in keeping with the carefully cultivated Myth of Islamofascism and the false flag ops always so conveniently pinned on al Queda. Every aspect of the Global War of Terror is to litereally fail all human societies and render them in no way self sufficient, leaving the entier world dependant on the New World Oligarchy and its attendant corporations and privatized services of every kind — to litereally deprive all peoples everywhere of any measure of free choice.

This is unspeakably sad.