By: Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:00:43 +0000

The US has turned into one sick country

By: Terry Lawrence

Terry Lawrence — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:56:54 +0000

The US government and military have gone from being the people who prosecuted Nazi war criminals in 1945 to being the Nazi war criminals in 2005. The incarceration and torture of Bradley Manning is just one tiny facet of the Gestapo tactics authorized by the misnamed “Patriot Act”, which beings to mind the well known saying that “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel”. The Reichstag fire of 1933 in Berlin and the ‘Twin Towers’ of 2001 in New York both served as the pretext for far right wing governments to push through legislation giving them the power to arrest, imprison and even murder anyone without notifying anyone that they had seized someone, and without ever needing to bring the person seized before a court to justify their detention or murder. We have already seen this in action with Drone missile strikes against people in other countries, and the murder of Bin Laden instead of his arrest and trial when he was captured unarmed. Why was the government afraid to try Bin Laden? Maybe because he was a long time CIA agent going back to the days when George Bush was the CIA director? That would be kind of embarrassing coming out in court, eh?

By: John Taylor

John Taylor — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:27:16 +0000

If we are, by definition, torturing our own, then we cannot be trusted with a trial on Bradley Manning and he should be given over to a UN tribunal. It’s sad to say that I do not trust my own government to do the right thing with any prisoner anymore.

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