“The Defense Department has adopted a 72-point "matrix" of types of stress to which detainees can be subjected. These include stripping detainees naked, depriving them of sleep, subjecting them to bright lights or blaring noise, hooding them, exposing them to heat and cold, and binding them in uncomfortable positions. The more stressful techniques must be approved by senior commanders, but all are permitted. And nearly all are being used, according to testimony taken by Human Rights Watch from post-Sept. 11 detainees released from U.S. custody. None of these techniques is legal. Treaties ratified by the United States, including the Geneva Conventions and the U.N. Convention Against Torture, prohibit not only torture but also "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." In ratifying the Convention Against Torture, the U.S. government interpreted this provision to prohibit the same practices as those proscribed by the U.S. Constitution. The Bush administration reiterated that understanding last June. In other words, just as U.S. courts repeatedly have found it unconstitutional for interrogators in American police stations to use these third-degree methods, it is illegal under international law for U.S. interrogators in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay or elsewhere to employ them. U.S. military manuals ban these "stress and duress" techniques, and federal law condemns them as war crimes. Yet the Bush administration has authorized them.”- Human Rights Watch http://
The corporate mind control apparatus showed the brutal beating of a Los Angles man Stanley Miller by the LAPD caught on tape by a video camera until it dawned on them, even the comatose AmeriKKKan public just might make the connection between the LAPD’s techniques for subduing a suspect/prisoner and the atrocities sanctioned by the Bush administration in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere around the world; further shattering the delusional self-image of white AmeriKKKa that this is a civilized society. There is no difference between the military and contract personnel prison abuses in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo and the sociopathic treatment meted out to Native Americans and Africans in AmeriKKKa by rabid land grabbing racists, ante bellum militia, post reconstruction KKK and current police departments except for the time frame. I keep a picture of the lynching of a black man on my computer hard drive to remind me just how depraved this culture is. Human rights organizations like the International Red Cross, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch attempted in vain for months to bring to the AmeriKKKan public’s attention the wholesale abuses and human rights violations routinely taking place in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and Iraq. There is a saying “wherever you go, there you are”, meaning you take you with you everywhere you go. If the you you take everywhere you go has been brainwashed to believe an Aryan white supremacist world view, it doesn’t take much for the implications of that belief system to manifest themselves, at any time, anyplace or under any circumstances. If racism is the underlying motivator that allows whites to assume they have an inherent right to abuse degrade and dehumanize non whites everywhere they encounter them; then the military and CIA (Nazi inspired) training manual and the ruling elite’s need to “pacify” the vanquished natives and undermine their liberation struggles is a natural outgrowth of that mind set. While Iraq and Afghanistan are thousands of miles away from the US, the same mentality behind the murder of Emmet Till in 1955 in Money Mississippi and the tortures in Abu Ghraib can be seen in the actions of police officers ala Rodney King in LA , Abner Louima, Amadu Diallo in New York and recently Stanley Miller in LA and “corrections” officers in many prisons throughout the US.
It is part of the AmeriKKKan culture.
AmeriKKKa is being programmed to prepare for its role of the brute of the world by the mass media. If you flip the TV remote you will see countless scenes of violence and incivility portrayed on the small screen. By the late ‘90's the total number of violent scenes on television (excluding news and non fiction programming) increased by 74 per cent from 1992 to 1995 and reached an average of about ten incidents of violence per channel per hour by the 1995-96 television season.1 The images, music scores and dialogue contained in these programs impact our central nervous system and are designed to condition us cognitively, psychologically and emotionally to accept violence as a way of doing business and desensitize us to human suffering. Africans in AmeriKKKa have been subjected to a police state since slavery, and the ruling elites use domestic police departments and the military to maintain the status quo and protect their class interests. When their class interests oppose the rest of humanity they use violence to quell the opposition. As a result we get Stanley Miller in LA, Abu Ghraib in Iraq and countless incidences in between.
References:
Human Rights Watch Website
The Index
of Leading Cultural Indicators American Society At The End of the Twentieth
Century
William J. Bennett p.162
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