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Good grief!

posted by SlyCy on October 12, 2006 at 5:40 AM | link to this | reply

It Should...

...frighten all of us, katray.

But no, no one is listening. They're just sleep-walking into an orwellian nightmare that is already firmly in place and growing by the day.

Thanks for the extra info.

D

posted by DamonLeigh on September 23, 2006 at 1:55 AM | link to this | reply

I heard about this story earlier today:

Excerpt and link: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/15578351.htm

Outsourcing torture should be stopped

OUR OPINION: CANADIAN VICTIM'S CASE CALLS 'RENDITION' INTO QUESTION

Of all the extraordinary techniques employed by the Bush administration to get information from terrorism suspects in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the practice known as ''rendition'' is one of the most questionable. Under this policy, U.S. interrogators don't whip, kick or brutalize anyone -- they just let someone else do it. Anyone who thinks this is a swell idea should consider the case of Canadian citizen Maher Arar, who was snared in an Orwellian nightmare involving rendition.

Mr. Arar was seized by U.S. authorities in 2002 after he landed in New York on his way home from a holiday in Tunisia. Without informing the government of Canada -- one of our staunchest allies -- U.S. authorities shipped him off to his country of origin, Syria, where he was imprisoned and beaten as a suspected terrorist. His captors routinely ignored his pleas of innocence. After nearly a year of beatings and harsh interrogations, however, the Syrians determined that he was telling the truth all along and let him go.

Earlier this week, a Canadian government commission exonerated the computer engineer of any ties to terrorism. The U.S. government refused to cooperate with the inquiry. The panel was highly critical of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which had wrongly labeled Mr. Arar an ''Islamic extremist'' and put his name on a terrorist database shared with U.S. officials.

This truly frightens me as it should every citizen anywhere - innocent people arrested and shipped to countries the U.S. condemns as terrorist supporters but uses for the torture of those falsely accused. Orwellian times and fascism have indeed arrived...

Thanks for posting this information and video link Damon. Government Terrorism exposed - anybody listening?

posted by katray4 on September 22, 2006 at 11:40 PM | link to this | reply

Corbin Dallas...

...and perhaps I don't much care.

Perhaps my purpose is to help, in a very modest way, to lift the lid on what is going on beneath your very noses. Those who have the compassion and intelligence to realise that scalpels and electrodes are NOT the New Cool, no matter what your government might say, will appreciate some of what I write and bring forward here, and perhaps spread the word a little further. It's all about small pebbles making more and more ripples.

And then, there'll be those who close down when their world view is seriously challenged, then they go massively onto the defensive, and finally they fall back on that old, old favourite - they start deleting comments

Thanks for the comment - did you actually see the video?

D

posted by DamonLeigh on September 21, 2006 at 10:14 AM | link to this | reply

Dylan...

...yes, that moral superiority arguement has truly imploded now, hasn't it? I mean, No One truly believes the US has ANY moral authority left whatsoever. Whatever the US did once have now lies in shreds.

And that's very sad.

So how is it that those who still insist on having Mr Murdoch's views and opinions piped directly into their heads each night by Fox News still cling on to so much ill-used power?

You guys need to get in tough with that dude in Thailand and find out how to organise a peaceful coup.

Thanks for reading.

D

posted by DamonLeigh on September 21, 2006 at 10:08 AM | link to this | reply

Perhaps most of us don't buy what your selling.......

posted by Corbin_Dallas on September 21, 2006 at 9:23 AM | link to this | reply

This video should be watched by all those people who say the United States is so morally superior that it should not have to be constrained under international law.

posted by Dylan24 on September 21, 2006 at 9:17 AM | link to this | reply