Taxi To The Dark Side * Complete *

[rjx]

Run time: 10:02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWp9ALiLXk   Posted on YouTube: March 10, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 10, 2008 By DU Member: rjx Views on DU: 1423

 
Academy Award Winning "2008 Best Documentary"

Alex Gibney’s TAXI FROM THE DARK SIDE is a perpetually shocking documentary about the Bush administration’s use of torture when dealing with political prisoners, with a particular focus on those captured in Iraq and Afghanistan. The title of Gibney’s movie is derived from the treatment meted out to an Afghani taxi driver named Dilawar, who was mistakenly fingered as a terrorist, then killed during a torture session conducted by American troops. Despite the title, Dilawar’s case is just a small part in Gibney’s jigsaw, as the director uses excruciating and comprehensive details surrounding the taxi driver’s death as a starting point in his search for the people who have permitted such incidents to occur. Gut-wrenching and fully uncensored pictures from Abu-Ghraib feature alongside interviews with military personnel (some of whom tortured Dilawar) as Gibney’s search slowly heads into the upper echelons of the military and, ultimately, into the Bush regime itself. TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE is a powerful, well-executed piece of filmmaking. Gibney’s skills as a director come to the fore as he manages to pull some surprisingly candid revelations from his subjects, while his choice of newsreel clips featuring the likes of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are extremely well chosen. Perhaps the most eye-opening scenes come from a press trip to the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, where Gibney and others are given a tour of the facilities, including the site gift shop, where gallows humor is stretched to breaking point with the sale of souvenir t-shirts bearing the legend Behavior Modification Instructor. The film concludes with Gibney pulling the focus back to Dilawar once again, highlighting the futility of his death as a number of commentators show how torture isn’t, and never has been, an effective method for extracting information from people.

Taxi To the Dark Side 1 of 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWp9ALiLXk

Taxi To the Dark Side 2 of 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWmYoIM1yf0

Taxi To the Dark Side 3 of 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L52RxdvKf0

Taxi To the Dark Side 4 of 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U8jQxjESoM

Taxi To the Dark Side 5 of 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhhyfB_Mk4

Taxi To the Dark Side 6 of 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ5QORGYzEM

Taxi To the Dark Side 7 of 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDW-sKsAY30

Taxi To the Dark Side 8 of 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThMtTi-S4XE

[mikita]

1. thank you

kicked for later....

[UndertheOcean]

2. kick

[santamargarita]

3. Thanks

K&R

[slipslidingaway]

4. And still no accountability for anyone near the top, sad that

we are leaving this to the next generation :(

Thanks for posting.

[NM Independent]

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You would rather me censor myself, trust me :grr: :grr: :grr:

Now, for something with a bit more thought (and a little less anger) put into it - 2nd comment on the last segment on YouTube.

"Thank you BBC for producing something our media is to cowardly to touch.

I just finished the final segment. I am almost speechless, and so utterly ashamed. I only thought that I knew the whole story. I tend to think myself informed in the deterioration of this nation, but in this instance I was mistaken.

For those downthread who will defend this administration, and practices - defending you're racist views...Just picture this happening to US, and ask yourself:

Will the world care?"

[NM Independent]

6. K&R K&R Error: You've already recommended that thread.

I can only do so much. Please do your part.

I haven't seen anything this important on any screen in years. This must get spread around.

[JohnyCanuck]

7. Vets Tell True Stories of the Terror War

Three-Stomp Blues: Vets Tell True Stories of the Terror War

Written by Chris Floyd
Monday, 03 March 2008

I. Absence of Evidence

There are many things that the American people are forbidden to know by the immensely profitable organizations that control the dispensing of information in the United States. Some things will simply not be reported, others will be distorted or sugar-coated or shellacked with fabrications until they bear only the most tangential connection to the actual events being "reported."

One of the most forbidden topics of all, of course, is the savage reality of the conflicts being fought in the name of the so-called "War on Terror." This global war – launched solely to advance a long-held, openly acknowledged militarist agenda of global domination by an authoritarian, lawless elite – has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent people, while corrupting and brutalizing the soldiers ordered, under knowingly false pretenses, to carry out the Dominators' sinister agenda. But the full story – and full force – of the crimes being committed every day in America's name, by American forces, at the command of America's leaders, are hidden from the American public by the American media. It is entirely possible to live your entire life as an active, engaged member of American society, diligently keeping up with the latest news from the most respectable sources, and never once have to confront this horrifying truth. The information-dispensers will not provide it for you; you have to seek it out yourself.

Fortunately, British newspapers still retain vestiges of a more active, unblinking journalism. (Although these remnants are fast disappearing, as Nick Davies notes in his grim but accurate survey of the UK press, Flat Earth News.) This week the Sunday Times gave a display of this dying art, in a remarkable report about the Iraq Veterans Against the War, and their preparations for another "Winter Soldier" gathering next week, echoing the landmark 1971 conference of disillusioned Vietnam Veterans. As the paper notes, veterans of both Iraq and Afghanistan will hold a four-day conference in Washington, beginning on March 13, where they "will testify about their experiences…. present photographs and videos, recorded with mobile phones and digital cameras, to back up their allegations – of brutality, torture and murder."

http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1446/135

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. Nominated, thanks and kick also please

see this video of Bush's party yesterday

SICKENING!!! secret video of Idiot singing about his crimes and getting plenty of laughs!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?

az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2987105&mesg_id=2987105

[Voice for Peace]

9. Thanks SO much for posting this. K&R

I've been wanting to see this. It's a note of hope that this got the award for best documentary, it will mean many more people will watch it.

[NM Independent]

10. Let's knock the political and primary BS off the front page...

...KICK AND REC THIS DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The primaries just don't fucking matter next to this

[Bunkie0913]

11. I watched all 8 parts

It took a toll on my emotions even breaking between sections to do "normal" house chores. In the words of the great Cynthia McKinney "Who are we and what have we become?" I'm ashamed that our highest officials ordered this abuse and will never be held accountable. Nothing feels "normal" anymore.

[JohnyCanuck]

12. Keep this in mind folks.

The fascist bastards who got away with using torture in Afghanistan and Iraq on Arab and Muslim "ferriners" will not have any problems at all doing the same to American citizens in the "homeland," once the propaganda campaigns have successfully painted all opponents of the neocon agenda as subversives and "terrorism" supporters.

[NM Independent]

13. Kick

C'mon people...Rec this for Chrissake!!!!!!!!

[bobthedrummer]

14. Thank you. eom

[NM Independent]

15. Okay DU, you're really starting to piss me off...

:wtf: is wrong with everybody?

This should have dozens of comments and recs by now.

I guess pissing at each other over the fucking primaries is more important than spreading the truth about torture.

[goddess40]

16. thanks nt

[JohnyCanuck]

17. NY Times: Effort to Prohibit Waterboarding Fails in House

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 12, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Tuesday failed to overturn President Bush’s veto of legislation that would have prohibited the Central Intelligence Agency from using waterboarding, which simulates drowning, on terrorism suspects.

The measure would have limited the agency to 19 techniques approved in the Army field manual on interrogation. The Army rules ban the use of waterboarding.

The C.I.A. director, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, has confirmed that the agency used the technique on three terrorist suspects in 2002 and 2003.

The House roll call was 225 to 188, or 51 votes short of the two-thirds majority required to override a veto. Mr. Bush has vetoed seven bills and has been overridden only once.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/washington/12torture.html?_r=1&ex=1362974400&en=a77b5af15ce2803f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

[bdamomma]

18. thank you for posting

I just saw the first episode and my first interpretation of this is: we will pay for these crimes.

[bdamomma]

19. I have watched all episodes of this dark situation being done in

our names, we are all truly mistaken if we think we are immuned to what is being done. It will haunt us all until we come to terms what is being done in our name, and whose to say that these same practices will not be used on us. This documentary should be viewed among all American people, I am deeply saddened to see that we are no better to what any group of people have done or is doing to people in a inhumane/cruelty acts of crimes against humanity.

:cry:

[anonymeme]

20. Absent Immediate Empathy, Conscience Stands As the Next Best Thing...

Absent Immediate Empathy, Conscience Stands As the Next Best Thing... because it has to...

In fact, if everyone had immediate empathy to the pain and suffering of others there would be no need to demonstrate the horrors caused by one person's failure to understand pain in anyone else.

Stunningly sad but beautifully done video.

Thank you for posting it.