Black sites

[willoweyes]

Please please please, if you wish to know what your government has been up to in your name--get the April 9, 2009, New York Review of Books, and read the article: the International Committee of the Red Cross "Report on the Treatment of fourteen High Value Detainees in US Custody"--which is summarized by Mark Danner.

I couldn't sleep after reading it last night--I sat frozen in my chair, my illusions of humanity leaking away like a snowflake in Hell.

One small step away from Goering.

[suebee]

despite obamas slow step approach (ie.- people are pissed he didnt legalize pot two months into his delicate presidency) to the war crimes, i still believe cheney and bush will end up (snatched outside the country, wouldnt that be soooo cool? or) special prosecuted.

[willoweyes]

you know, we all knew about these things intellectually (hey, Christopher
Hitchens even had himself waterboarded--).

but reading in deadpan language of the detainees, how they were hung for
fourteen days with their hands handcuffed above their heads, bleeding--no
sleep--forced to wear a diaper and soil themselves left naked--one man had
lost a leg, and they took away his prosthesis--a DOCTOR came in daily to
take measurements of his remaining leg, to check the swelling!!--they wore
collars, which their "handlers" used to fling them repeatedly against the
walls. . . .shut in coffins for days with little air--all the while
monitored to keep them alive--just.

and of course the detainees lied, said anything, to stop the pain. the
horror Useless, except maybe to feed Cheney's sick domination fantasies . . . .

Doctors. for doctors to do such work in cold blood--

we are still of the same species which fathered the Nazis. . . .

I can only pray that evolution gets to work on our moral fiber, and soon.
Meantime, there is Law, and thank god, Reporters.