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bobthedrummer

(26,083 posts)
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 01:21 PM Jan 2012

UK investigations into torture and rendition-a guide (Ian Cobain 1-12-12 Guardian)

"A series of investigations have sought to get to the bottom of claims that British officials were implicated in abuse of detainees"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/12/uk-investigations-torture-rendition-guide

Torture is systemic and profitable today, despite the big lie repeated worldwide from "leaders" that "we don't torture..."

The Torture Archive
(The National Security Archive)

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/torture_archive/index.htm

Governor Scott Walker (of my State) is in Texas today-but he sure likes those UK based mercenaries from Wackenhut-he's employed them in Milwaukee as the February 21, 2011 Blogging Blue post by Zach W below documents.

These are the guys that Scott Walker wants to keep UWM students safe

http://www.bloggingblue.com/2011/02/21/these-are-the-guys-that-scott-walker-wants-to-keep-uwm-students-safe

On a darker sarcastic note, my late first cousin did 2 tours in Vietnam (1966-68) as a United States Marine. He shared his scalps and ear necklace with me once. I'm the sole surviving son of a United States Marine. There are far worse things in this torturing world than urinating on corpses.

Like torture...

Torture need not be physical either as Mind Justice.org founder and UN recognized non-lethal expert human rights activist Cheryl Welsh published in 2008 based on University of Wisconsin History Professor Alfred McCoy's work

In Contravention of Conventional Wisdom
http://www.mindjustice.org/wisdom.htm

How can we, the people bring torturers to justice when it is universally denied?

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