Mount Misery Where Slaves Where Tortured, Bought by Rumsfeld [View All]

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Heard Amy Goodman talking about this with Sam Seder this morning.

Frederick Douglass, the renowned abolitionist, began life as a slave on Maryland's Eastern Shore. When his owner had trouble with the young, unruly slave, Douglass was sent to Edward Covey, a notorious "slave breaker." Covey's plantation, where physical and psychological torture were standard, was called Mount Misery. Douglass eventually fought back, escaped to the North and went on to change the world. Today Mount Misery is owned by Donald Rumsfeld, the outgoing secretary of defense.

It is ironic that this notorious plantation run by a practiced torturer would now be owned by Rumsfeld, himself accused as the man principally responsible for the U.S. military's program of torture and detention.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/293201_amy22.html


Rumsfeld has the means to live anywhere yet he chooses to set up his vacation home on this land where so much misery took place. I have no doubts it was the history of this place that appealed to him. He's a disgusting human being.