By Jacob G. Hornberger
It s finally starting to dawn on many Americans that they stand in no different position, in principle, from the citizenry in those U.S.-supported dictatorships in Latin America and the Middle East.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30583.htm
Ron Paul: U.S. ''Slipping Into A Fascist System''
By AP
''We have slipped away from a true Republic,'' Paul said. ''Now we are slipping into a fascist system where it s a combination of government and big business and authoritarian rule and the suppression of the individual rights of each and every American citizen.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30582.htm
Drones come to the US
A little-noted amendment to a $63 billion Federal Aviation Authority appropriations bill has ominous implications for democratic rights in the United States.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/feb2012/pers-f21.shtml
Murder Is Legal, Says Eric Holder
By David Swanson
Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday explained why it s legal to murder people, to target and kill an individual sitting on his sofa, with no charges, no arrest, no trial, no approval from a court, no approval from a legislature, no approval from we the people, and in fact no sharing of information with any institutions that are not the president.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30729.htm
So, Eric Holder, we should just trust that the president won t assassinate us?
That, in effect, is the pledge the Obama administration's attorney general says has replaced our constitutional protections.
http://bit.ly/wT0Srm
Obama s Kill Doctrine
By Jonathan Turley
Trust us, Attorney General Eric Holder says we will only assassinate Americans after administrative ''due process.'' That s not how the Constitution works, buddy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30743.htm
The Hunger Games as a Metaphor for the Warfare State
By Joel Poindexter
An impoverished underclass, already forced to pay tribute to the government, has its youth pressed into violent service by the wealthy and politically powerful, for the entertainment and enrichment of this ruling elite.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31020.htm
Solitary Confinement as Torture
Some US Prisons Recognize the Problem, as California Inmates Ask the UN to Act.
http://bit.ly/HX11PA
Top ex-CIA officer on waterboarding tape destruction
'Just getting rid of some ugly visuals': The tapes, filmed in a secret CIA prison in Thailand, showed the waterboarding of terrorists Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Nashiri.
http://bit.ly/ISne0X
The Torture Victim the United States Is Desperate to Gag
A millionaire Saudi businessman, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, is accused of being the brains behind the terrorist attack on the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen in 2000, in which 17 U.S. soldiers died. He is also a victim of the notorious torture program initiated by the Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks.
http://www.fff.org/comment/com1207w.asp
From Information Clearing House
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The state is a firing squad
Strike the Root
by JG Vibes
02/17/12
Although the common perception of human nature is very negative, the truth is that most people who are not mentally ill have a very difficult time committing acts of violence. Usually it takes a sizeable payment and a fair amount of manipulation to convince someone to act violently, and even then a tremendous amount of guilt typically follows regardless of the circumstances. This factor of personal guilt always came into play in executions, so over the years, they devised different ways of killing people that allowed for the executioner to become more and more detached from the physical violence. On a greater scale, we see this same kind of mentality today in the development of drone warfare...
http://www.strike-the-root.com/state-is-firing-squad
''But that would be torture''
CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff
02/27/12
How can it be that there is such widespread empathy in America for the old and the sick and such revulsion at the idea of restraining them (even for their own good), and yet when it comes to actually torturing people considered to be 'terrorists', even before these people have had a trial, or people who have been jailed, even for non-violent crimes, many of the same people are happy to see them water-boarded, hung by the wrists from the ceiling with only their toes on the ground, placed for hours in stress positions, slammed against the wall, deprived of sleep for days on end, or in the case of common prisoners, placed in solitary, sometimes for months at a stretch, and shackled like slaves when removed from their cells?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/27/but-that-would-be-torture/
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. asserted that it is lawful for the government to kill American citizens
New York Times
03/05/12
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. asserted on Monday that it is lawful for the government to kill American citizens if officials deem them to be operational leaders of Al Qaeda who are planning attacks on the United States and if capturing them alive is not feasible...
http://nyti.ms/wEXVQz
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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40 years in solitary confinement, end their ordeal
http://webmail.amnesty.org.uk/_act/link.php?mId=J8210924017367362734746193415&tId=68755630
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40 Years in Solitary Confinement: US 'Pushing Boundaries Cruel, Inhuman, Degrading Treatment'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/17-4
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California Prison Throws 78 Prisoners in Solitary for More Than 20 Years
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress: ''A civil rights group sued California s prison system, claiming its use of long-term solitary confinement for the high-security inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison should be considered torture and therefore violates the prisoners' human rights. Lawyers ? demand[ed] prison reforms on behalf of the more than 500 current inmates who have been held in the maximum-security prison for between 10 and 28 years. The lawsuit is in line with United Nations experts' recommendations for a nation-wide ban on solitary confinement.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9546-california-prison-throws-78-prisoners-in-solitary-for-more-than-20-years
Solitary Confinement: Torture Chambers for Black Revolutionaries
Kanya D'Almeida and Bret Grote, Al Jazeera English: ''An estimated 80,000 men, women and even children are being held in solitary confinement on any given day in US prisons.... But as happens with virtually all prison-related stories in the US mainstream media, the two most important words were left unprinted, unuttered: race and revolution.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11127-solitary-confinement-torture-chambers-for-black-revolutionaries
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