5/06/2004

Video about to surface too. It's going to get worse before it gets better. The shitheads who did this are SELLING pictures and video tapes. While most seem to think "fuck the Iraqis" this is a PR disaster, a violation of the Geneva Convention, and in this political climate the Democrats will do what they can to picture us as bad people. Those of us who have done some eclectic "study" of various wars and the inhumanity of man will remember Andersonville of Civil War infamy. Prisoner of war abuse by the winners is seldom revealed. "Winners write history" as somebody once said. We in the USA have projected ourselves world wide as "better than you", compassionate, believing in human rights, civil justice, a court system and so on. Most of you are not old enough to remember the South as recently as the 50s and early 60s when local sheriffs were the law in most southern counties and if you weren't "local" they did what they wanted. The courts were fixed, the lawyers were in the tank, and justice was just another word for you're fucked. Readers of "Serpico" will recall that drug gang members were on the police force and people who reported the crimes were killed. Same in Chicago. We're seeing something live that we like to pretend cannot happen. Just check California where guards beat and abuse prisoners with labor union protection; this is happening right now.

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