What Does Torture Look Like?

[davidswanson]

Run time: 07:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndYmsUAW6Mk   Posted on YouTube: April 15, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 15, 2008 By DU Member: davidswanson Views on DU: 1069

 

[The Wizard]

1. There is no statute of limitations

on crimes against humanity.

[rusty quoin]

2. Nice job David Swanson.

Your description, of not wanting to read the second half of the book...that was how I felt about watching this video with the image presented. But you are right. We need to face what was done in our name, no matter how painful. k&r

[Hulk]

3. We are no better....

If we, the people, do nothing...then we are no better than those that committed and ordered the crimes.

[Gonnuts]

4. If this country should exist for another 1,000 years

... we will never be able to eliminate the stench of shame this administration has brought upon us.

There really is no excuse for you to sit on the sidelines now. Don't just call, write, or email - physically go to your representatives office, bring others, form a group, and DEMAND IMPEACHMENT!

When the president of the United States can get on national TV and tell the world he ordered torture and nothing is done - you have lost your country and NOTHING but IMPEACHMENT will get it back! NOTHING!

Do it or we might very well be the next ones they torture.

[LaStrega]

5. 100% agreed ...

The very fact that we participate in this forum gives the current regime a free ticket to label us enemy combatants, and they could throw us into a secret prison to be tortured on a whim.

Hell, the fact that I donate to DU is grounds for them to toss me into the abyss. How fucking scary is that? :scared:

:kick: & rec'd

"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." ~ Hermann Wilhelm Göring at the Nuremberg trials (sound familar? IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH!)

[SlingBlade]

6. My Friend was given a warning

for posting this in the Rockford Republican Rag.

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++ Comment that caused this message: What Does Torture Look Like?

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndYmsUAW6Mk"

It Looks Like.... Shame !
Thank God there is no statute of limitations on crimes against humanity.
David Swanson’s look at the gruesomeness of what they do in your name

Then we learn tonight on CNN that while Privates, Corporals and Sergeants
sit rotting away in the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth that they were
following orders from above.

Out of the mouths of our own soldiers. Standard Operating Procedure

Illegalities, torture, dehumanization of Iraqis etc come from the highest level: White House and Pentagon. Bush has no shame. Cheney has no shame

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js-ixcFME5U" ++

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WOW ! This is the kind of thing I posted about.
It's as if the media as a whole will not confront this issue and will
punish or ignore those who do. It is NOT an isolated incident.