SO SCREW TRIALS & LAWYERS & EVIDENCE & ALL THAT OTHER "liberal" or Leftist NONSENSE !!!
ANN COULTER WOULD BE PROUD -
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MARCH ON PENTAGON
PROTESTING AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR
BUT THE AMERICAN MEDIA DOWN-PLAYED THE NUMBERS
& SPENT AS MUCH TIME TALKING ABOUT THE PRO-WAR DEMONSTRATORS
THOUGH THEIR NUMBERS WERE ONLY A COUPLE OF THOUSAND
SO WHY DOES FOX NEWS CNN WASHINGTON POST & NEW YORK TIMES
CONTINUE TO PIMP FOR THE BUSH REGIME & FOR TORTURE
& AMERICAN BACKED DEATH SQUADS IN IRAQ & NOW INSIDE IRAN ???
And here's a clip from one of my favourite films V FOR VENDETTA
which seems apt in these dangerous times with The Neocons & other Fascists
waiting in the wings to take over if they haven't already as they begin to "BLACK-BAG"
all who are too Vociferous in their criticism of the current Regimes--- VIDEO FROM YOUTUBE USER lazarusrevival-
NOTE that stories about Iraqis or Afghans or others being detained , kidnaped, black-bagged & tortured somehow does not make much os an impression on Canadians, Brits or Americans in large part I guess because of our nations' deep seated racism which so many these days seem to take pride in but maybe this story about an American former soldier turned private contractor in Iraq who was arrested & tortured in Iraq may hit home finally for Americans :
" My Name Used to Be #200343"
By David Phinney, IPS News. April 7, 2007.
An American former Navy soldier and private contractor imprisoned and tortured in Iraq by the U.S. military and falsely accused of "aiding terrorists" warns that our worst fears about Iraq have come true.
A year ago, Donald Vance learned what its like to be falsely accused by the U.S. military of aiding terrorists. He was held without charge for more than three months in a high-security prison in Iraq, and interrogated daily after sleepless nights without legal counsel or even a phone call to his family.
... the former private security contractor was honored for his ordeal ... and for speaking out against the incident (by) the National Press Club, Vance received the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling, an award named in memory of Army helicopter gunner Ron Ridenhour who struggled to bring the horrific mass murders at My Lai to the attention of Congress and the Pentagon during the Vietnam War.
... a two-time George W. Bush voter and Navy veteran, recounted the events of his imprisonment and the grief of his fiancé and family. They did not know if he was alive or dead, he said. They were already making inquiries to the U.S. State Department on how to ship his body home.
He then drew a wider circle around his ordeal to include the countless others who have been held falsely without charge and denied normal legal constitutional protections under law. "My name used to be 200343," Vance said recalling his prisoner ID. "If they can do this to a former Navy man and an American, what is happening to people in facilities all over the world run by the American government?"
...Vance claims that during the months leading up to his arrest, he worked as an unpaid informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. .. sharing... information about the Iraqi-owned Shield Group Security, whose principals and managers appeared to be involved in weapons deals and violence against Iraqi civilians.
...Because he worked with the FBI, Vance contends, U.S. government officials in Iraq decided to retaliate against him & another employee of the company...because they were sharing information with law enforcement agents outside the control of U.S. officials in Baghdad.
"In other words," claims the lawsuit, "United States officials in Iraq were concerned and wanted to find out about what intelligence agents in the United States knew about their territory and their operations. The unconstitutional policies that Rumsfeld and other unidentified agents had implemented for 'enemies' provided ample cover to detain plaintiffs and interrogate them toward that end."
... He still wonders why his jailers didn't just call the FBI and have him cleared. They had access to his computer and cell phone to determine if his claims were true.
"When I told them to do that, they just got angry and told me to stop answering questions I wasn't being asked," Vance said. "I think they were butting heads with the State Department. I just snitched on the wrong people.
And why weren't managers with the Shield Group held and interrogated?
More startling even now is that the company has reformed. At the time they left, Shield Security held U.S.-funded contracts with the Iraqi government, Iraqi companies, NGOs and U.S. contractors. As far as Vance knows, the company still does - but under a different name: National Shield Security.
"I built their web site," he said. "And they are still being awarded millions of dollars in contracts."
and check out website of:
NATIONAL SHIELD SECURITY
The good thing according to Neocons is that the company is still in business misappropriating millions in the name of Business as usual & anyone who objects must be some sort of " pinko, anti-American communist ...
POSTS split in two ; see more below , KEEP GOING... DOWNWARDS IS THE ONLY WAY OUT --- GO FIGURE!!!
"We must go forward to go back" Willie Wonka
love you too,
GORD.
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