September 15, 2003- Elimination Of Rights
The other day, a story surfaced concerning the War On Terror. Instead of being another propaganda piece that cheered the war effort, this one had a rather different tone to it. It concerned some fo the tactics that America is using on the prisoners that they have captured during this war. It seems as if America is finding ways to get around things like the Geneva Convention and other such agreements that safeguard the rights of prisoners of war. These are things that go beyond what has already surfaced about how these prisoners are being treated, being held without charges being filed, being denied legal representation and so on. It seems as if America has resorted to torture tactics to try and get information out of these detainees. Yes torture tactics, the very things that America themselves have so long decried. If you go back to the Vietnam era, you may remember how much America made a huge deal out of the ways that the American POW's were being treated by the Vietnamese. Prisoner after prisoner came back to America with tales of places like the infamous "Hanoi Hilton", the main POW prison in Hanoi at the time. There were tales of shit like being held in little "tiger cages", which were bamboo cages that were not tall enough for a man to stand in, so he had to remain on all fours, and these cages were suspended above the ground, and the Communists would do shit like poke sticks through the slats of the cage at the prisoner, and throw water and piss and shit on him and so forth. There were tales of beatings, electro-shock torture, sleep deprivation, starvation, lack of medical care, and so on and so forth. Americans were appalled when they heard this shit. Many used these tactics as justification for the continuance of the war, they said that since these Vietnamese were people that treated the American POWs like this, that they deserved to be at war with America, and had to be stopped and so forth. The Communists in the Vietnam War took torture tactics to new heights, they were about as innovative as they came. This made America become a leader in the fight for POW rights. They took the initiative and led the crusade for all sorts of laws and treaties to come about that protected and safeguarded the rights of POWS, no matter who they were. The United States has decried the abuses of POW rights in the world ever since. In fact, they even used that to bolster the case for war against Iraq this year, they said that Saddam treated enemy POWs with little or no regard for any conventions whatsoever. As always, those that perpetrated this shit were branded as uncivilized and despotic and dictatorial and the like. Except that this time, America was trying to deflect attention away from something that they were doing. Because some of what America was doing was exactly the type of shit that they had so vehemently opposed for so long. What America was doing was to hand over prisoners that they could not get to act in the way that they wanted them to other countries like Jordan, Morocco, and Egypt to be "debriefed" as the CIA calls it. These are all countries where torture tactics are routinely used on prisoners,and no one is denying that they are being used this time either. However, all that they are denying is that any American people, be they CIA or Pentagon or whatever, are doing any of this torturing at all. They are just doing what they refer to as "rendering "them to a foreign power for "extreme renditions". Then the Americans stick around while these other countries Pigs torture the shit out of these prisoners. They say that they do this so that they "can share in the debriefing results." Anyone with any sort of sense at all can plainly see that this is nothing more than a way for America to torture its POWs and get away with it. When all that torture shit was going on in Vietnam, that was a war where America took relatively few prisoners of war, mainly because it was a war that America was fighting strictly over in a far-off land. Plus, they were not doing so well in that war, so they had very limited control over that country, so they did not have the capabilities to properly hold Pows, because they were the visiting team, so to speak. The Vietnamese were the home team, so they got to hold far more POWs then America did, so it was easy for America to make a big deal out of POW rights. In this war, it is a totally different story. America is the only side to hold any POWs here. As far as anybody knows, there are now American POWs in the War On Terror. However, America has enough of them for both sides. There have been mass round-ups of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq both. America has had a POW camp dow at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba , ever since the war's early days, and that camp has been full to capacity all the way. In fact, it is mainly detainees from here that are being "rendered" to these other countries for "interrogation". There is no due process of law in this at all. However, no one in America seems to be all, that concerned about it. Maybe that is because these prisoners are painted as people that had all sorts of involvement in the events of September 11th, 2001 and its aftermath. The problem with that is that nothing useful has come out of holding these dudes at all. No matter what kind of tactics that America uses to glean information out of them, they get nothing useful. Even the Pentagon admits this fact through all of its double and triple talk. These torture tactics are not accomplishing anything at all. The only thing that it seems to be accomplishing is that it serves America's thirst for revenge well. These countries that America is sending these dudes to for torture have absolutely no stake in anything here. They don't really give a fuck what these cats did. Many of these zealots trained in Egypt as a matter of fact. So these countries know that the only reason that America is sending these dudes to them is so they can torture them mercilessly without impunity. That way, they can somewhat make up for the fact that their countries harbor these terrorists and zealots in the first place. Plus, America gets the satisfaction out of having these enemy soldiers tortured and they don't even have to do any of it. Revenge and bloodlust are about all that anyone can see from this. If any really valuable information was able to be gotten out of these detainees, it would have been done by now, and these torture tactics would be wholly unnecessary. It is just America wanting these poor dudes to suffr and be the scapegoats for what happened on September 11th, 2001, because the dudes that actually planned and pulled off that shit are nowhere to be found, and America has had zero luck capturing them thus far. So they want to torment the POWs that they have caught, to make them examples so that the American people can get a feeling of satisfaction, of revenge.
This is brought to you by the country that prides itself as the beacon of human rights and human dignity for the world. Suddenly, they have abandoned the quest for human rights for the quest for vengeance. Now that America is the one that has all the prisoners and the resultant power over them, they suddenly say something very different than what they have said ever since the Vietnam days.They say that this is a very different situation, that the two are not comparable. The argument goes that these current POWs deserve no right, since they are enemy combatants in a war that they dragged America into. They have sworn loyalty and fealty to a side that would use innocent civilians to make their point with no regard to human life or civilized behavior or anything. Therefore, they have forfeited all the rights that they had, and can be treated in any fashion deemed necessary. That directly opposes the American stance towards POW and enemy combatants rights. That doctrine has always stated that everyone has rights, no matter who they are or who they pledge their loyalty to. Just because these people supposedly are loyal to Al-Quaida and the Taliban and bin Laden and the like, does not mean that they forfeit any rights at all under that American doctrine. However, it seems that doctrine has been ignored here in favor of one based on "looking tough" to the world. The United States seems far more concerned about how they come across to other countries in this war then they are about honoring any treaties or anything. That is because the American War machine and Pig machine got very embarrassed by the events of September 11th, 2001. They felt that the whole thing made America look weak and ineffectual in the eyes of the rest of the world. So the Pentagon and the White House seem to have decided that they have to conduct themselves in the most mean, effective manner that they can in this war. So they have spared no expense doing just that. They have pissed all over the very same rights issues that they championed so loudly for so long. Now that America has the prisoners, not another power, they suddenly feel that they can do roughly the same things that these other powers did to the American POWs that they complained about so much. The one thing that America learned from these other countries doing these things to their men is that they were very efficient techniques to bring about the desired results. America was pissed off and embarrassed that these techniques were used against them, and they vowed to make good on it someday, and that someday is here. The rights of POWS no longer seem to have much significance when they are POWs held by America. Then, they become evil entities, ones that were determined to end your life as you know it on favor of some zealotry or another. These prisoners are dehumanized as much as possible, so that no one thinks of their human rights, since no one thinks of them as human anyway. This is precisely the type of propaganda that was used to justify the treatment of American POWs in Vietnam. The Communist media portrayed them as agents of an evil empire that was determined to stamp out an existing way of life in favor of their way of life. That was how the Communists justified treating the Americans in the way that they did, so nobody said anything about it.Now, America is using exactly the same techniques to justify how they are treating the POWs in the current war. If America was looking to send a message to the rest of the world, they have. They have sent out the message that they are just bullshitters when it comes to everything, that what America says is totally driven by what is expedient for them at the time. If they see rights violated in a place where they have no interests, then they cry and wail about how bad that is to one and all. But when America is personally violating the rights of someone that they are in conflict with, then these violations are totally justified. America is showing that they are no better then any dictatorship or military junta or monarch that they criticize by doing this. America is showing that they don't give a fuck about any fuckin' rights when you are talking about an enemy of theirs. Other people's enemies, yes, but theirs, no way. America is showing that they are as ruthless and cunning as anyone when it comes to fulfilling their agenda. POWs rights seem to mean nothing anymore, they are now subject to anything. When it comes to rights, America has proven that they are just like anyone else, those rights only apply if they are not enemies of the state, because if they are, then their rights evaporate. Revenge and bloodlust are as important to America as they are to any dictator, this shows us all that too. The image of The United States as a just and fair country is nothing more than a joke. The way that they are running this war on all fronts is anything but just and fair. The rights that are being swept away are ones that will be hard to get back.The use of torture purely as a revenge thing is barbaric and unacceptable. The fact that America has stooped to this level further tarnished its image and made things far worse than the terrorists ever could. Once again, they have gotten America itself to do their work for them, it is not them that are radically changing the American way of life, rather, it is America itself that is doing that. This is yet another example of how that is going on, and that is what will ultimately ruin everything and give the terrorists the victory.