- Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959) was perhaps the most accomplished
actress of her generation. It was Ms. Barrymore who said, "You grow
up the day you have the first real laugh - at yourself."
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- Do you remember your first real laugh at yourself? Mine
came when I was about 30.5 years old. You see, I belong to the "Late
Bloomer" generation. Anyway, my proof of maturing came after reading
the great Gary Allen's, "None Dare Call It Conspiracy," and finally
realizing there was no substantial difference, in practice, between the
democratic and republican political parties.
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- My laugh at myself was less of a side-splitter, and more
of a panic. Had I been lost in a cloud of systematic propagation disseminated
by the highly paid proselytizers of the corporate media, who had constantly
convinced me of the validity of the "Left/Right paradigm"?
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- What a joke! And the joke was on me. Today, it's a joke
on practically every registered voter in America, especially on the Baby
Boomers, who are largely more occluded than those of my Late Bloomer generation.
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- And while there is no great differences between our two
major political parties, there are - at least - two distinct classes of
people. Human motivation can be easily seen by separating the basic dynamic
of mankind into two great divides: There are those who serve themselves
at the expense of others - the Takers; and those who serve themselves by
helping others - the Helpers.
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- The top echelons of the US government has long been largely
composed of republican and democratic Takers. And, Takers with the power
of the federal government behind them can take far more from us than nasty
neighbors can.
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- Takers come in all sizes and assortments, with varying
abilities and aptitudes to take what is not rightfully theirs from others.
The most cunning Takers naturally gravitate to where they can most easily
take the most, which is into high-level governmental positions.
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- And if such democratic and republican Takers could become
satiated with their vast sums of money, fame, adulation, and all the gratuitous
and perverted sex they could possibly bear, our national plight might not
be so severe; but sadly, those of both political parties are not so easily
sated.
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- Part of the psychopathy of these bipartisan Takers is
strange, in deed: The more they take, the more they are driven to take,
until the grief and agony of others so excites the Takers, that it exceeds
their ecstasy from sexual culmination, their love of money, or their lust
for power. In fact, advanced Takers must see or know of the suffering of
others, or the Takers become obviously quite mad to all observers, when
usually their madness is cleverly hidden.
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- To the psychopathic democratic and republican politicians
and bureaucrats in government taking your job, your savings, your home,
all too soon become passe, and not fulfilling enough to the psychopathic
mind, especially if you are still, somehow, happy.
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- Ultimately, Takers compulsively degrade themselves until
only the severe suffering of others, that comes from physical abuse and
torture, will satiate them; thus we have a very fast growing wave of physical
abuse from the police constabulary sweeping America, and a seriously expanding
pandemic of torture taking place in many of the US military bases around
the world.
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- And while there is absolutely no excuse for police abuse
at home, the Takers tell us they must torture human beings abroad in order
to gain the intelligence data that will keep America safe; while the truth
is Americans will never be safe with psychopathic Takers in charge of our
country.
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- The English, 17th century philosopher John Locke wrote,
"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil,
then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil which they set
out to destroy."
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- Presidential candidate Barack Obama touted through out
his campaign on how his good would eradicate the evils of the preceding
eight years of a republican administration. But once he gained the presidency,
democrat Obama refused to investigate the torture crimes of the preceding
Bush administration, or to even release a series of photographs depicting
outrageous US tortures of thousands of Iraqis, that had been stuffed into
the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. These photographs show scenes
of Iraqi men, women, and children being raped and sodomized by US soldiers.
Eye witnesses told of not only seeing such things as strangulation, but
brutal beatings, and the cramming of lit cigarettes into the ear canals
of defenseless prisoners.
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- I've seen some of these photos, but could not look at
them for very long. Even Harper's Magazine writer Scott Horton states he
"has obtained specific corroboration from a highly credible senior
military officer with firsthand knowledge, of the suppressed photos,"
which is surely the very tip of a hell we cannot even imagine.
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- Keep in mind, that the above tortures were photographed,
or took place in front of witnesses; but, there seems to be a number of
secret prisons where special torture techniques are carried out by the
CIA, without any witnesses allowed, as reported by the Washington Post.
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- And by special order of President Bush, and not repealed
by President Obama, the CIA does not have to reveal to anyone who these
prisoners are, or what happens to them behind the solid and impenetrable
walls of over 100 US prisons around the world. Not satisfied with torturing
detainees, American officials seem to also want to leave relatives of the
"detainees" in a constant state of misery, wondering what happened
to their loved ones.
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- According to a Human Rights Watch report, the US Army,
since March of 2003, has imprisoned about 2,400 children in Iraq, alone.
Some of these children were as young as ten years old when they were taken
captive, without charges or trials, all in violation of the Coalition Provisional
Authority memorandum on criminal procedures.
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- Married Iraqi men are segregated from their wives in
prison, and children from their parents, unless children are being tortured
in front of mothers and fathers. Do these tortured children know of complicated
terrorist plots that can be tortured out of them? No, the rational - or
justification - for torturing children - is the parents will break down
and tell what they know about terrorists plots, in order to stop the torturing
of their children. If the parents know nothing, are such children tortured
endlessly, until the parents divine something to tell? And, I suppose that
imprisoned children without parents are simply tortured for good measure.
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- Amnesty Human Rights Watch, and all other oversight agencies,
have even been denied permission to see these children or to know where
they are imprisoned in Iraq.
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- In an article entitled "US and Allies Torture Children
in Iraqi Prisons," Sherwood Ross writes, "Iraqi lawyer, Sahar
Yasiri, representing the Federation of Prisoners and Political Prisoners,
said in a published interview there are more than 400,000 detainees in
Iraq being held in 36 prisons and camps, and that 95 percent of the 10,000
women among them have been raped." "Children," he said,
"suffer from torture, rape [and] starvation, and do not know why they
have been arrested." He added, "The children have been victims
of random arrests, not based on any legal text."
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- Still there are some Americans who do not think we torture
human beings. But even former President Jimmy Carter has confirmed that
we are torturing detainees.
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- "I don't think it, I know it," snapped Carter
to CNN's Wolf Blitzer's inane question, "What makes you think we torture
...".
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- "Our country for the first time in my life time
has abandoned the basic principle of human rights," continued Carter.
"We've said that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to those people
in Guntanamo and the Abu Ghraid prison, and we've said we can torture prisoners
and deprive them of an accusation of a crime to which they have been accused."
Meaning our prison detainees do not have to be guilty of anything in order
to first by imprisoned and then tortured.
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- Even American psychologists have gotten in on the "fun"
of torturing innocent human beings. With a membership of about 150,000
members, the American Psychological Association (APA) condones the practice
of psychologists tutoring CIA operatives with torture methods that are
used in the vast networks of secret, black operative sites around the world.
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- APA president Gerald Koocher, clearly highly placed in
the Department of Defense, is an enabler of US torture, insisting that
psychologists play a valuable and ethical role with the interrogation [torture]
of US prisoners.
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- Psychologists have long functioned as "The CIAs
torture teachers," as proven by articles in both magazines of Vanity
Fair and Salon.com.
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- Reporter Mark Benjamin writes, "And with a [Bush]
White House utterly convinced that abuse is an effective interrogation
tactic - and equally committed to protecting those who traffic in it -
few experts think justice will be served. That goes for the psychologists
who set up the diabolical program, and those who gave them the authority
to carry it out."
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- Ah ... Mr. Benjamin, the psychologists, CIA operatives,
and anyone else who carries out torture on innocent human beings aren't
looking for intelligence data, they torture for kicks. Much, much higher
up in the control grid, torture is part of a war for men's souls: Those
who authorize torture, condone it, carry it out, make excuses for it or
supported it in any way, will lose their souls to the dark side, unless
they make some major reconsiderations.
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- But the brilliant gad-fly and TV personality Max Kaiser
reminds us that Hannibel Lecter was a psychologist, and anyone who'd take
advice from a common garden variety psychologist might as well have a dinner-date
with Hannibal Lecter, at his home.
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- But then, Obama dismissed this most heinous chapter in
American history with his, "We're moving on."
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- Moving on where, Mr Obama, to even more torture of more
women and their children?
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- Obama's only excuse for continuing Bush's torture policies
was he didn't want to offend the military/intelligence establishment. Who's
running your administration, Mr. Obama, you or the psychos in the intelligence
establishment?
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- Largely unknown to the American public, thanks to the
corporate media, once in office Obama quickly out-matched the insane torture
policies of Bush, the Younger, with his doctrine called "Prolonged
Detention."
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- Under Obama's unconstitutional doctrine of Prolonged
Detention, America is officially imprisoning people, not for any crimes
they have committed, but for "crimes" they may commit in the
future. Prolonged Detention, sometimes called "Preventive Detention"
is the Obama power to keep people in prison, indefinitely, without any
proof of guilt, without any formal charges being brought against them,
and without any legal defense, convictions, or any sentencing; but, torture
is optional. This is not the Rule of Law, it is the Rule of Obama.
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- Yes, that's right. We are now officially imprisoning
people who cannot be found guilty of any crimes, but who may commit crimes
in the future. This is George Orwell's concept of "Thought Police"
taken to unfathomable heights, and only "kindly" Obama could
openly get away with it.
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- After condemning republican Bush Junior for his ad hoc
legal strategy, of making up laws as he went, our new democratic president
had the gall to say he'd do the very same thing: Obama said, "We'll
develop an appropriate legal regime [outside the US court system to make
illegal detention legal] so our efforts are consistent with our values
and Constitution."
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- Consistent with our Constitution? Did you really teach
Constitutional Law, Mr Obama? One doesn't have to teach or even study Constitutional
Law to understand that you as a sitting president cannot legally make-up
laws, whether they are consistent with the Constitution or defy it, as
does your ad hoc Prolonged (Preventive) Detention scheme proposes.
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- Prolonged detention? How long is "prolonged,"
Mr. Obama?
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- A 28 day imprisonment is the longest period of preventive
detention allowed, under law, in any civilized country any where in the
world, except the United states under Obama. How long is your Preventive
Detention, Mr. Obama?
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- Obama spoke of ten years, but didn't limit his Preventive
Detention to a mere decade.
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- Will those suffering under Obama's Preventive Detention
be tortured until they confess to the crimes they had planned to commit
in the future?
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- If such tortured detainees do confess to crimes they
have not committed, but planned to commit, what then? Ten more years of
detention until they confess to more crimes they are not guilty of having
committed?
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- What's the ultimate solution? More detention? More torture?
More what, Mr. Ex-Constitutional Law professor turned full-time tele-prompter
reader? Have you even thought that far ahead, Mr. Obama? Can you think
that far ahead?
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- Even leftist Reporter Rachel Maddow said, [Obama's Prolonged
Detention decrees] are one of the most radical proposals for defying the
Constitution that we have ever heard made to the American people."
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- Ah ... Ms. Maddow these are not proposals, these are
current orders to US military/intelligence officers, which are being carried
out, that are resulting in the torturing hundreds or thousands of
innocent people and children as I type these words.
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- Vincent Warren, the Black Executive Director for the
Center for Constitutional Rights said (after Obama spoke of his intentions
for Prolonged Detention) "I was really stunned when I heard those
words come out of his mouth. This has never been done before. It is completely
outside the realm of what is constitutionally permissible. It is deeply
shocking that he'd even go there, when George Bush didn't even go there.
This was really something that was beyond the pale [well outside the bounds
of morality]."
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- Author Yvonne Ridley wrote, "This president [Obama]
has gone from charming to harming and few have noticed."
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- Nothing - not even mass killings - demonstrates what
one's moral and ethical values really are more than how one feels about
the torturing of life; and, Mr. Obama, along with almost every other Washington
politician, bureaucrat, and judge, of both parties, have all clearly told
us how they feel about torturing human life by not noisily denouncing Obama's
Prolonged Detention program of infamy.
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- The fact that our country now officially engages in torture,
under the auspices of the American people, is the worse immorality in our
country's history; even greater than the atomic bombing of innocent Japanese
children, women, and men, as torturing people, indefinitely, is worse than
killing them outright.
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- Clearly Obama is breaking the law, but where are the
angry voices from congress or the Supreme Court? There are none, for junior
Takers always bow to senior Takers, especially in matters of torture. The
only fights that occur in Washington are of the World Wrestling Federation
variety, all intended for public consumption.
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- The US mass media, however, is keeping this particular
piece of Obama insanity under wraps, ostensibly so as to not overly shock
the Obamanoids, who have long been stuck dumb with paralytic political
naivete. But, you may still be able to see and hear Obama, himself, confessing
his guilt on YouTube (Search - Rachel Maddow: Indefinite detention? Shame
on you, President Obama).
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- One civil liberties advocate told the New York Times,"We've
known of this [prolonged detention] was on the horizon for many years,
but we were able to hold it off with George Bush. The idea that we might
find ourselves fighting it with the Obama administration over these powers
is really stunning."
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- Yes, "stunning" to those who have yet come
to grips with a basic reality: The same dark Takers who controlled the
previous republican administration control the current democratic administration.
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- We've been told that the people we detain and torture
are the worse of the worse terrorists, which is another gross lie to gain
support of the American people for torture, and implicate them in this
unspeakable crime against humanity. In reality, the US military and intelligence
services merely gather up stray non-combatants, living near battlefields,
or they pay local warlords to provide them with innocent men, women and
children to torture.
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- In Afghanistan, according to Human Rights Watch, "Anti-Taliban
forces regularly cast a wide net, sweeping up non-combatants, and many
of those they captured are delivered to U.S. officials, and in at least
some cases in exchange for bounty payments ... Some sent to Guantanamo
were simply farmers, taxi drivers and labors with no meaningful ties to
the Taliban or al Qaeda, not the enemy combatants the Bush administration
claimed ... The military is also jailing an undisclosed number of children."
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- It is doubtful that such tillers of the soil, drivers
of cabs, or labors digging ditches have any real data to give to their
torturers, but they must have one overriding question: "Why are you
Americans here in our country torturing and killing us, and destroying
our country?" Good question, the answer to which will not come from
our corporately owned media.
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- Highly paid propagandist, Rush Limbaugh, long effective
in locking good Americans into the phony left/right paradigm, has gone
as far as justifying US torture of human beings.
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- "You ever heard of emotional release? asked Limbaugh
on one of his radio shows. "You ever heard of the need to blow off
some steam?" continued Limbaugh.
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- You ever heard of war monering, Rush? Ever heard of psychopathy?
Ever heard of the criminally insane? Which group do you belong, Rushbo?
All of them?
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- A national policy of torture will certainly increase
anti-American sentiments, abroad, and will likely create torturous retaliations.
And, unless we voice our objections to a policy of torture, would we not
inherit the national karma sure to befall a nation that torturers its prisoners?
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- Moreover, when interrogators resort to torture methods,
they are admitting their ineptitude as interrogators. We don't need more
vicious torture methods, we obviously need better interrogators to interrogate
actual terrorists.
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- In the future, without a public outcry, there will be
more planned leaks of our torture methods, with official denials; never
too much information released too quickly, until at last, it will be become
an accepted fact that our government has the power, intention, and "right"
to torture even you and me.
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- The dark Controllers of all Takers know torture doesn't
produce the results their interrogators claim; but, they torture, and will
soon enough make it widely known for two main reasons: It'll produce wide-spread
fear of being tortured, which will cause some people to turn in their neighbors
to avoid torture themselves, and still some will continue to support torture
in a belief it'll provide them some sort of protection, all at the expense
of their souls, as fear effectively blocks all spiritual advancement.
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- The gestalt of torture, and its threat, is configured
on physical and psychological phenomena, meant to reduce human kind into
such a fearful state, man is prohibited from spiritual advancement. Torture,
and the threat of it is the ultimate weapon in the war for men's souls.
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- Fear has long been the ultimate weapon used by the Controllers,
commencing with anxiety of being thought a kook for believing in conspiracy
theories, then ultimately giving away to fearing the every thing which
so many have long and arrogantly dismissed ... themselves being imprisoned
and tortured.
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- Your first sign of growing up may have been the first
time you really laughed at yourself; but, recognizing and shunting the
psychopathic behavior of the Taker is proof of one's spiritual maturational
process.
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- And as a nation's government is a reflection of her people,
it is easily seen there are far more Takers than Helpers.
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- The first step in changing our government begins by changing
ourselves; which may begin by fully realizing most republican and democratic
mouth-pieces are united in the dark Brotherhood of the Takers.
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- J. Speer-Williams
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