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12-04-21 Torture: It did not start in GITMO, Abu Ghraib, or Afghanistan, but in the medieval prisons in the territorial United States
The degree to which the US has degraded itself can be gleaned from the fact that the treatise "Democracy in America" (1835 ) was the outcome of de Tocqueville's travels in the US to survey the prison system. At the time it was considered by far more humane than any of its European counterparts. Today, the situation is dramatically reversed.
Water Boarding
The Rampart Scandal and the Criminal Justice System in Los Angeles County.
By Erwin Chemerinsky: Guild Practitioner, 57:121 (2001)
"This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted." No single reform can be sufficient. Reform is not an event, but a process that will take many years to complete.
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only seeing torture in action but, in the most extreme cases, you are witnessing young men dying. The prison guards stand over their captives with electric cattle prods, stun guns, and dogs. Many of the prisoners have been ordered to strip naked. The guards are yelling abuse at them, ordering them to lie on the ground and crawl. Crawl, motherf*****s, crawl. If a prisoner doesnt drop to the ground fast enough, a guard kicks him or stamps on his back. Theres a high-pitched scream from one man as a dog clamps its teeth onto his lower leg. Another prisoner has a broken ankle. He cant crawl fast enough so a guard jabs a stun gun onto his buttocks. The jolt of electricity zaps through his naked flesh and genitals. For hours afterwards his whole body shakes. READ MORE: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8451.htm ____