From: gav (gav_gc@yahoo.com.au)
Date: Tue Jun 22 2004 - 12:45:29 BST
i just watched an american documentary on Iraq that
focussed on the torture of Iraqi detainess. It was
extremely disturbing.
As many will already suspect, mistreatment and torture
are official US government policy since guantanamo.
the general in charge of guantanomo - a general miller
- developed a protocol called 'stress and duress'
which outlined different techniques and levels of
torture. the prisoners at guantanomo were considered
exempt from the geneva conventions.
same general miller is now in charge of all prisons in
Iraq and the same protocols are used. over 30
prisoners have died in iraq from torture gone toofar.
the great majority of prisoners are non-combatants, ie
innocent. they are imprisoned without trial and when
released are shunned by their peers because their
humiliation has been made public, deliberately. it is
called social death. the acts inflicted upon the
prisoners are spefically designed to violate moslem
sensibilities; much local knowledge is needed (ie it
is coming from above).
all this occurs against a backdrop of general violence
and murder of civilians in iraq: men, women and
children. some US soldiers have deserted and refuse to
kill anymore but they are treated as pariahs. one
deserter was sentenced to a year in jail recently.
okay so where from here?
what can we do, individually? renounce our
nationality? is that a tactic worth considering? how
the hell do we stop the escalation of violence from
reaching 'revelations' proportions?
it seems to me that only INDIVIDUAL action can change
our course. can we redeem ourselves and our societies?
how? any ideas (eg thoreau's refusal to pay tax to
fund the war on mexico)
despairing
gav
Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies.
http://au.movies.yahoo.com
MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org
Mail Archives:
Aug '98 - Oct '02 - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
Nov '02 Onward - http://www.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/summary.html
MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net
To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at:
http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Tue Jun 22 2004 - 12:48:32 BST