Een frisse jonge Amerikaanse meid die naast een doodgemartelde Iraki in Abu Ghraib de democratische spirit hoog houdt.Bill That Would Block Release of Torture Photos Expected to Be Signed Into Law
Thursday 22 October 2009
by: Yana Kunichoff, t r u t h o u t | Report
In an unprecedented move, Congress passed legislation Tuesday including an amendment which would maintain one of the most contentious hangovers of the Bush administration, allowing the Department of Defense to exempt torture photos of US detainees overseas from public access under Freedom of Information Act requests.
This amendment, passed as part of the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill, would give Secretary of Defense Robert Gates the prerogative to suppress photos of prisoner abuse taken after September 11, 2001, which could result in the endangering of US citizens, troops or employees.
The availability of photos and records of detainee abuse has been at the center of a lawsuit between the American Civil Liberties Union and the Bush administration since 2003. The lawsuit is now continuing under the Obama administration and is aimed at photos that were ordered released by a federal appeals court as part of an ACLU FOIA lawsuit, though it would apply to other photos in government custody as well.
Lees verder: http://www.truthout.org/1022095
Tot zover de democratie. De democratie kan democratisch besluiten de democratie om zeep te helpen. Hitler was het resultaat daarvan.
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afgelopen zondagavond was er een prachtige maar zeer indringende documentaire op de Belgische tv.
In our name en dat ging over martelen .Martelen vanaf de tweede wereldoorlog tot nu en over de gehele wereld.
Heel duidelijk werd de straffeloosheid aan de kaakgesteld die er voor zorgt dat niemand wordt berecht en het martelen kan doorgaan.
In our name door Chris Tuckfield.Misschien nog ergens te bekijken.
Jose
Totaal geen spijt of medeleven getoond, alleen dat zij op die foto's stond.
written about Private Lynndie England and the Abu Gharaib prison abuse scandal. Recorded in May & June of 2005. Released on the album A Bigger Bang on September 5, 2005
Lead Vocals, Guitar, Bass: Mick Jagger Electric Guitars, Backing Vocals: Keith Richards Drums: Charlie Watts
DANGEROUS BEAUTY
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
In your high school photo
You looked so young and naïve
Now I heard you got a nickname
The lady with the leash
Was it funny on the midnight shift
I bet you had your fair share of stiffs
There were onerous odors
I've got to admit
'Cause you're a dangerous, dangerous
A dangerous beauty
It's so plainfully plain to us
You're doing your duty
Who you got there in that hood, you look so fancy in those photographs
With your rubber gloves on you're a favorite with the Chiefs of Staff
You're doing such a wonderful job
You're a natural at working with dogs
Keeping everyone awake at night
With a touch of the prods
Well you're a dangerous, dangerous
A dangerous beauty
Yeah, disdainfully, painfully
A bit of booty, yeah
You're a dangerous, dangerous
A dangerous beauty
Beauty
Well you're a dangerous, dangerous
A dangerous beauty
If I was your captain, would you salute me
What I say
Yeah everybody
Beauty
Everybody now, yeah
Are you one bad apple in a box
Yeah, dangerous
Dealing out electric shocks
I've seen the gloves coming off
Dangerous
If looks could be killing, I bet you shoot me now
anzi
Lang leve het internet:
The Torture Archive
Washington D.C., August 25, 2009 - The National Security Archive announces the publication of the Torture Archive -- more than 83,000 pages of primary source documents (and thousands more to come) related to the detention and interrogation of individuals by the United States, in connection with the conduct of hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as in the broader context of the "global war on terror."
The goal of the Torture Archive is to become the online institutional memory for essential evidence on torture in U.S. policy. Many of these documents are available in multiple locations on the Internet and in numerous private collections, thanks to landmark Freedom of Information Act and habeas litigation, leaks from whistleblowers, public relations releases from government, investigative reporting by journalists including the Torturing Democracy team, and Congressional investigations. But the disparate locations, enormous volume of documents, and lack of indexing or standard cataloging have presented real difficulties for users.
With support from the Open Society Institute and the JEHT Foundation since 2006, the National Security Archive has undertaken to bring together all these materials in digital formats, organize and catalog them for maximum utility and access, and publish them online in multiple packages including a comprehensive searchable database. By combining released executive branch policy memoranda, legal documents from U.S. and foreign courts, and on-the-ground information about actual practices by the U.S. military and intelligence personnel, the Torture Archive presents a comprehensive view of the war on terrorism, its foundations and its implications.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/torture_archive/index.htm
Zeker weten!
anzi
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