James Redford
2007-05-14 13:19:22 UTC
Below one can download to one's hard drive a 39 minute and 30 second
MP3 file of the audio recording of Lester Eugene Siler being brutally
tortured, sexually assulted and terrorized for circa two hours in his
home near Jacksboro, Tennessee on July 8, 2004 by Campbell County
police officers Gerald David Webber, Samuel R. Franklin, Joshua
Monday, Shayne Green and William Carroll. Among other things, the
officers beat him with slapjacks, electrocuted him by hooking his
genitals up to a battery, threatened to murder him and do harm to his
family, dunked his head in a toilet, etc. The policemen asked Eugene's
wife, Jenny, and his son to leave the house before the torture
commenced, and thanks to the quick thinking of Jenny, she turned on an
audio recorder before she left which captured a large portion of the
torture.
http://www.plunder.com/Police-Torture-and-Sexually-Assault-Peaceful-Man-download-60717.htm
http://amsterdam1.plunder.com/60717/2004-7-8-cops-torture-lester-eugene-siler.mp3
18966570 bytes, MD5: b00c095deddf237d38575dca2c1fde10
The above MP3 was obtained from the downloaded file at the following
URL: mms://wms.scripps.com/knoxville/siler/siler.mp3 (which is the
direct MMS stream that
http://wms.scripps.com/knoxville/siler/siler.mp3 links to). Note that
the file from the wms.scripps.com address is actually an ASF file with
a misnamed MP3 filename extension, of which in turn contains the audio
recording in the MP3 format. I obtained the raw MP3 file by demuxing
the ASF container using the DSM Converter in Media Player Classic, so
absolutely no loss of audio quality resulted as it was not re-encoded
(i.e., the MP3 data within the ASF container was simply extracted out
unmolested).
Below is the FBI's transcript of the above audio recording:
Revised transcript of the Siler recording by FBI Special Agent Joshua
T. McKinney, Federal Bureau of Investigation, date of revised
transcript: January 19, 2005; Case 3:05-cr-00013, Document 13, Filed
July 1, 2005 http://web.knoxnews.com/pdf/silertranscript.pdf
http://www.thelibertypapers.org/files/silertranscript.pdf
http://www.endcorruption.org/silertranscript.pdf
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Related to the Eugene Siler torture case, in the below I provide
massive amounts of documentation wherein the U.S. government itself
admits it is holding innocent people indefinitely without charges
(including children and U.S. citizens), torturing them, raping
them--including homosexually anally raping them--and murdering them,
and that the orders to do so came from the highest levels of the U.S.
government.
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Crushing Children's Testicles: Welcome to the New Freedom
John Choon Yoo ( http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/yooj/ ,
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/facultyProfile.php?facID=235
) is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley
School of Law (Boalt Hall), one of the authors of the Patriot Act, and
is one of the main White House legal advisers on the use of torture to
President George Bush, Jr. Prof. John Yoo emigrated from South Korea
with his parents when he was an infant, and is now married to Elsa
Arnett, the daughter of reporter Peter Arnett.
Douglass Cassel (
http://www.nd.edu/~ndlaw/faculty/facultypages/cassel.html ) is the
Lilly Endowment Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil
and Human Rights at Notre Dame Law School.
The below excerpt is from a debate between Prof. John Yoo and Prof.
Doug Cassel on December 1, 2005 in Chicago:
""
Prof. Doug Cassel: If the President deems that he's got to torture
somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child,
there is no law that can stop him?
Prof. John Yoo: No treaty.
Prof. Cassel: And also no law by Congress. That's what you wrote in
the August 2002 memo.
Prof. Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to
do that.
""
You can listen to the above exchange on the following audio clip:
http://rwor.org/downloads/file_info/download1.php?file=yoo_on_torture.mp3
(317,712 bytes)
The following audio clip is a longer recording which includes the
above exchange: http://rwor.org/audio/yoo%20excerpt.mp3
See also:
"John Yoo Argues Pres. George Bush Has Legal Power to Torture
Children," Philip Watts, Revolution Newspaper (revcom.us)
http://rwor.org/johnyoo/index.html
##########
Since Public Law 107-56 (October 26, 2001), i.e., the "USA Patriot
Act" (H.R. 3162), was passed without the Congress or Senate even being
allowed to read it before voting on it, the police can now secretly
search your house and take whatever they want from it without having
to tell you about it until they issue you a warrant up to six months
later (see Sec. 213). Also, the legal definition of "domestic
terrorism" was changed to include any "acts dangerous to human life
that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of
any State" (see Sec. 802)--which could quite literally be jaywalking.
Indeed, smoking a joint could quite literally be domestic terrorism as
defined under this law, since the U.S. government considers such drug
use to be dangerous to human life, and since it is illegal after all.
But such an act is supposed to only qualify if it "appear[s] to be
intended to influence the policy of a Government by intimidation or
coercion." So smoking a joint would only be an act of "domestic
terrorism" if the U.S. Government thinks a person is doing it as a
protest against their drug laws--the clause for "intimidation" already
applies, otherwise the U.S. government would have no law against it.
And since Public Law 107-40 (September 18, 2001) was enacted and Bush,
Jr. signed the November 13, 2001 Presidential Military Order, *habeas
corpus* has been done away with as U.S. citizens can now be held
indefinitely and in secret on the mere suspicion that they are in some
way involved in "terrorism" (which can now be virtually anything: see
the above redefined definition of "domestic terrorism") without even
being charged; they can be tried by a secret military tribunal where
they will not have the right to cross-examine their accusers; and they
can be executed in secret. Of which color-of-law precedents that
totally eviscerate the legal rights of U.S. citizens have now been
further strengthened by Public Law No. 109-366, 120 Stat. 2600
(October 17, 2006), i.e., the "Military Commissions Act of 2006" (H.R.
6054); this law also retroactively attempts to get the U.S. government
out from under the Geneva Conventions. Indeed, U.S. citizens have
already been held for years without any charges even having been filed
against them (such as José Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi), and the U.S.
government says that it can keep U.S. citizens that way indefinitely.
So it's not surprising to find that the U.S. government has been
torturing innocent people, including U.S. citizens. This includes U.S.
soldiers torturing people in U.S. custody to death.
"Pakistan: U.S. Citizens Tortured, Held Illegally--FBI Participated in
Interrogations Despite Apparent Knowledge of Torture, Abduction,"
Human Rights Watch, May 24, 2005
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/05/24/pakist11005.htm
"Exclusive: Secret Memo--Send to Be Tortured," Michael Isikoff,
Newsweek, August 8, 2005 issue
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8769416/site/newsweek/
"Outsourcing Torture: The secret history of America's 'extraordinary
rendition' program," Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, Issue of February 14,
2005, posted February 7, 2005
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050214fa_fact6
"CIA kidnapped terror suspects in the EU: lawmaker," Reuters, April
26, 2006
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=11968389
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/CIA-kidnapped-terror-suspects-in-EU/2006/04/26/1145861421384.html
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/april2006/260406CIA.htm
"Bush admits the CIA runs secret prisons," Deb Riechmann, Associated
Press (AP), September 6, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060906/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush
Khalid El-Masri, an innocent German citizen, was abducted from
Macedonia and held by the U.S. military without charges from January
23 to May 28, 2004, during which time he was anally sodomized and
tortured by the U.S. military. He was taken by the U.S. military to
Baghdad, Iraq and then to the "Salt Pit" clandestine CIA torture
center located north of Kabul in Afghanistan.
"Khalid El-Masri," Wikipedia, June 25, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khalid_El-Masri&oldid=60497313
"Lawsuit Against CIA Is Dismissed: Mistaken Identity Led to
Detention," Jerry Markon, Washington Post, May 19, 2006; Page A13
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/18/AR2006051802107.html
An innocent Algerian man, Laid Saidi, was held without charges in one
of the same clandestine CIA torture centers in Afghanistan that Khalid
El-Masri was held, from May 2003 to August 2004, wherein the two saw
each other. Mr. Saidi was abducted from Tanzania and held by the U.S.
military, during which time he was anally sodomized and tortured by
the U.S. military.
"Algerian Tells of Dark Term in U.S. Hands," Craig S. Smith and Souad
Mekhennet, New York Times, July 7, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/world/africa/07algeria.html
"CIA sent me to be tortured in Afghan prison, says Algerian," Jerome
Taylor, Independent (U.K.), July 8, 2006
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1166575.ece
Below is the case of the innocent man, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen
who was arrested in New York in September 26, 2002 by the U.S.
government and taken to Syria to be tortured for ten months on behalf
of the U.S. government:
"Canadian Was Falsely Accused, Panel Says--After Tip From Ally, U.S.
Sent Muslim to Syria for Questioning," Doug Struck, Washington Post,
September 19, 2006; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/18/AR2006091800883_pf.html
"Canadian police errors led to man's torture--probe," David Ljunggren,
Reuters, September 18, 2006
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18316511.htm
"Report: Canadian Terror Suspect Tortured--and Was Likely Innocent,"
Associated Press (AP) and Reuters, September 18, 2006
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003123959
In the Bagram, Afghanistan U.S. military base, U.S. government
officials publicly admit that they're murdering Afghan inmates there
by torturing them to death:
"Afghan prisoners beaten to death at US military interrogation base:
'Blunt force injuries' cited in murder ruling," Duncan Campbell, The
Guardian (U.K.), March 7, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,909164,00.html
"Prisoners 'killed' at US base," BBC News, March 6, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2825575.stm
"Army Details Scale of Abuse of Prisoners in an Afghan Jail," Douglas
Jehl, New York Times, March 12, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/politics/12detain.html
Included in the U.S. government's use of torture against innocent
people is the rape of women and male children:
"US military confirms existence of horrific pictures and video,"
Andrew Buncombe, Independent (U.K.), May 9, 2004
http://www.rense.com/general52/erh.htm
Among other tortures, U.S. Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba's report details
homosexual anal rape committed by U.S. soldiers. Also detailed in U.S.
Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba's report and by other U.S. military sources,
Military Intelligence and the CIA ordered the torture at the Abu Ghaib
prison.
"U.S. Army report on Iraqi prisoner abuse: Executive summary of
Article 15-6 investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade by
Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba," NBC News, May 4, 2004
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4894001/
"Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade,"
Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba, U.S. Army
http://www.npr.org/iraq/2004/prison_abuse_report.pdf
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/taguba.pdf
"Green light for Iraqi prison abuse came right from the top:
Classified documents show the former US military chief in Iraq
personally sanctioned measures banned by the Geneva Conventions,"
Andrew Buncombe, Independent (U.K.), April 3, 2005
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0403-03.htm
"Pentagon Report Set Framework For Use of Torture: Security or Legal
Factors Could Trump Restrictions, Memo to Rumsfeld Argued," Jess
Bravin, Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2004
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0607-01.htm
As Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said to reporters on May 7, 2004
concerning the pictures and videos of U.S. military torture of Iraqis
that the U.S. government still refuses to release: "The American
public needs to understand we're talking about rape and murder here.
We're not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience.
We're talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges."
See:
"Rumsfeld: Worst Still To Come--Pentagon Boss Apologizes To Iraqis;
Says More Videos, Photos Exist," CBS News and Associated Press (AP),
May 7, 2004
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/08/iraq/main616338.shtml
"Rueful Rumsfeld: 'Cruel' truth hurts: Rape and murder feared in Iraq
abuse," Noelle Straub, Boston Herald, May 8, 2004
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.economics/msg/53904eefc5efc3fa
And as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on May 7, 2004 before
the Senate Armed Services Committee (and he essentially said the same
thing before the House Armed Services Committee on the same date)
concerning the pictures and videos of U.S. military torture of Iraqis
that the U.S. government still refuses to release:
""
First, beyond abuse of prisoners, there are other photos that depict
incidents of physical violence toward prisoners, acts that can only be
described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhuman.
Second, there are many more photographs, and indeed some videos.
Congress and the American people and the rest of the world need to
know this.
In addition, the photos give these incidents a vividness, indeed a
horror, in the eyes of the world. ...
If these are released to the public, obviously it's going to make
matters worse. That's just a fact. I mean, I looked at them last
night, and they're hard to believe. And so beyond notice. That's just
a fact.
""
See:
"Rumsfeld Testifies Before Senate Armed Services Committee," FDCH
E-Media (Federal Document Clearing House), May 7, 2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8575-2004May7
http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2502
"Testimony before the House Armed Services Committee: Transcript of
Testimony by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, House Armed
Services Committee," Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense,
U.S. Department of Defense, May 7, 2004
http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/2004/sp20040507-secdef0401.html
http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/2004/sp20040507-secdef0421.html
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/security/has128000.000/has128000_0.HTM
http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2525
"In quotes: Rumsfeld faces Congress," BBC News, May 7, 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3694995.stm
##########
Yet almost all of the prisoners held by the U.S. military are
completely innocent:
"Most 'Arrested by Mistake': Coalition intelligence put numbers at 70%
to 90% of Iraq prisoners, says a February Red Cross report, which
details further abuses," Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2004
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0511-04.htm
"U.S. war prisons legal vacuum for 14,000," Patrick Quinn, Associated
Press, September 17, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060917/ap_on_re_mi_ea/in_american_hands
From the above article:
""
Many say they were caught up in U.S. military sweeps, often
interrogated around the clock, then released months or years later
without apology, compensation or any word on why they were taken.
Seventy to 90 percent of the Iraq detentions in 2003 were "mistakes,"
U.S. officers once told the international Red Cross.
""
"AP: Gitmo Detainees Say They Were Sold," Associated Press, May 31,
2005 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0531-10.htm
##########
The U.S. government has been training its troops and foreign NATO and
U.N. military for a long time (i.e., well before the U.S.
government-staged 9/11 attacks) in putting U.S. citizens in
concentration camps and for total gun confiscation.
Watch Alex Jones's first two Police State video documentaries (both
published well before the U.S. government-staged 9/11 attacks) where
you can see U.S. troops training with U.N. troops in disarming
American citizens and putting them into concentration camps, and
anouncing over their loudspeakers: "Be calm, there is food, there is
water in the camp. Violation of camp rules will not be tolerated!"
They had American role-players screaming back at the U.S. and foreign
U.N. troops, "I'm an American! I'm an American! You can't do this to
me! I have rights!"
On Alex Jones's first two Police State video documentaries you can see
many more of these training exercizes conducted in other cities and
towns. Below you can watch Alex Jones's first two Police State videos
in full and for free:
Police State 2000 (published 1999)
http://www.archive.org/details/PS2000
Police State II: The Takeover (published 2000)
http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceStateII
There have literally been hundreds of these type of training exercizes
going on in the U.S. since the early 1990s. For example, see:
Operation Urban Warrior, Oakland, California 1999
http://www.infowars.com/ouwmar9901.html
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Australian, British and other foreign troops training with U.S. troops
for total gun confiscation of U.S. citizens and in rounding up U.S.
citizens into concentration camps at Operation Urban Warrior, Oakland,
California 1999
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For more on this subject, see below:
"U.S. Can Confine Citizens Without Charges, Court Rules," Jerry
Markon, Washington Post, September 10, 2005; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090900772.html
"Reagan Aides and the 'Secret' Government," Alfonso Chardy, Miami
Herald, July 5, 1987
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/secret_white_house_plans.htm
http://www.noncombatant.org/trove/chardy-shadow-government.pdf
"Martial Law Concerns," Congressman Jim McDermott, House of
Representatives, March 11, 2003
http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/sp030311.shtml
Below are some archives for mainstream major media news articles
dealing with these gulag matters:
Primary Prison Planet Mainstream-Media News Archive on FEMA
Concentration Camps
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_concentration_camps.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_concentration_camps_old.html
FEMA Camps/Martial Law Archive
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_fema.html
The below archived news articles deal with how the U.S. government can
indefinitely hold U.S. citizens who have not been charged with any
crime (as the U.S. government has already been doing), and how U.S.
citizens in general can be tried by a secret military tribunal where
they will not have the right to cross-examine their accusers, and they
can be executed in secret:
Habeas Corpus Archive http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_habeas.html
The below news articles talk about how the U.S. government can
quarantine whole cities and round U.S. citizens up to be put in
concentration camps in the event of, e.g., a bio-weapons release:
Model States Emergency Health Powers Act [which has been passed on the
Federal level] Archive
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_modelstates.html
Below are some additional documentation resources to learn more about
the FEMA concentration/extermination camps in the U.S.:
http://infowars.com/goodphotos.html
"Concentration Camps in Okanagon County?," Associated Press (via KXLY
News), February 25, 2003
http://web.archive.org/web/20030408233829/http://www.kxly.com/common/getStory.asp?id=26857
http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_022703_camps.html
Interview of Okanogan County Commissioner Dave Schulz
http://www.prisonplanet.com/schultz_02_27_03.mp3
And see also:
"Foundations are in place for martial law in the US," Ritt Goldstein,
Sydney Morning Herald, July 27, 2002
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/27/1027497418339.html
"Secret FEMA Plan To Use Pastors as Pacifiers in Preparation For
Martial Law: Nationwide initiative trains volunteers to teach
congregations to 'obey the government' during seizure of guns,
property, forced inoculations and forced relocation," Paul Joseph
Watson, Prison Planet.com, May 24, 2006
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/240506femaplan.htm
"Paramilitary Secret Police Kidnap, Detain, Torture Bilderberg
Investigators: Interrogators threatened to 'cut off arms' during 6
hour marathon of hell," Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com, June
29, 2006
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2006/060706manraided.htm
"Terror Canadian Style," Joe Burd, TruthMovement.CA (accessed June 28,
2006) http://www.fathers.ca/anyone_can_be_called_an_insurgent.htm
http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/terror_canadian_style.htm
"Man Raided By FBI, ATF, Canadian Law Enforcement After Handing Out
'Subversive' Alex Jones Material: Gun seller questioned on militia,
ownership of George Washington speeches," Paul Joseph Watson & Alex
Jones, Prison Planet.com, July 6, 2006
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2006/060706manraided.htm
--
James Redford, author of "Jesus Is an Anarchist," revised and expanded
edition, June 1, 2006 http://praxeology.net/anarchist-jesus.pdf
MP3 file of the audio recording of Lester Eugene Siler being brutally
tortured, sexually assulted and terrorized for circa two hours in his
home near Jacksboro, Tennessee on July 8, 2004 by Campbell County
police officers Gerald David Webber, Samuel R. Franklin, Joshua
Monday, Shayne Green and William Carroll. Among other things, the
officers beat him with slapjacks, electrocuted him by hooking his
genitals up to a battery, threatened to murder him and do harm to his
family, dunked his head in a toilet, etc. The policemen asked Eugene's
wife, Jenny, and his son to leave the house before the torture
commenced, and thanks to the quick thinking of Jenny, she turned on an
audio recorder before she left which captured a large portion of the
torture.
http://www.plunder.com/Police-Torture-and-Sexually-Assault-Peaceful-Man-download-60717.htm
http://amsterdam1.plunder.com/60717/2004-7-8-cops-torture-lester-eugene-siler.mp3
18966570 bytes, MD5: b00c095deddf237d38575dca2c1fde10
The above MP3 was obtained from the downloaded file at the following
URL: mms://wms.scripps.com/knoxville/siler/siler.mp3 (which is the
direct MMS stream that
http://wms.scripps.com/knoxville/siler/siler.mp3 links to). Note that
the file from the wms.scripps.com address is actually an ASF file with
a misnamed MP3 filename extension, of which in turn contains the audio
recording in the MP3 format. I obtained the raw MP3 file by demuxing
the ASF container using the DSM Converter in Media Player Classic, so
absolutely no loss of audio quality resulted as it was not re-encoded
(i.e., the MP3 data within the ASF container was simply extracted out
unmolested).
Below is the FBI's transcript of the above audio recording:
Revised transcript of the Siler recording by FBI Special Agent Joshua
T. McKinney, Federal Bureau of Investigation, date of revised
transcript: January 19, 2005; Case 3:05-cr-00013, Document 13, Filed
July 1, 2005 http://web.knoxnews.com/pdf/silertranscript.pdf
http://www.thelibertypapers.org/files/silertranscript.pdf
http://www.endcorruption.org/silertranscript.pdf
935275 bytes, MD5: 8d214dac5e7859bea395d8a13681212b
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Related to the Eugene Siler torture case, in the below I provide
massive amounts of documentation wherein the U.S. government itself
admits it is holding innocent people indefinitely without charges
(including children and U.S. citizens), torturing them, raping
them--including homosexually anally raping them--and murdering them,
and that the orders to do so came from the highest levels of the U.S.
government.
##########
Crushing Children's Testicles: Welcome to the New Freedom
John Choon Yoo ( http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/yooj/ ,
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/facultyProfile.php?facID=235
) is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley
School of Law (Boalt Hall), one of the authors of the Patriot Act, and
is one of the main White House legal advisers on the use of torture to
President George Bush, Jr. Prof. John Yoo emigrated from South Korea
with his parents when he was an infant, and is now married to Elsa
Arnett, the daughter of reporter Peter Arnett.
Douglass Cassel (
http://www.nd.edu/~ndlaw/faculty/facultypages/cassel.html ) is the
Lilly Endowment Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil
and Human Rights at Notre Dame Law School.
The below excerpt is from a debate between Prof. John Yoo and Prof.
Doug Cassel on December 1, 2005 in Chicago:
""
Prof. Doug Cassel: If the President deems that he's got to torture
somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child,
there is no law that can stop him?
Prof. John Yoo: No treaty.
Prof. Cassel: And also no law by Congress. That's what you wrote in
the August 2002 memo.
Prof. Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to
do that.
""
You can listen to the above exchange on the following audio clip:
http://rwor.org/downloads/file_info/download1.php?file=yoo_on_torture.mp3
(317,712 bytes)
The following audio clip is a longer recording which includes the
above exchange: http://rwor.org/audio/yoo%20excerpt.mp3
See also:
"John Yoo Argues Pres. George Bush Has Legal Power to Torture
Children," Philip Watts, Revolution Newspaper (revcom.us)
http://rwor.org/johnyoo/index.html
##########
Since Public Law 107-56 (October 26, 2001), i.e., the "USA Patriot
Act" (H.R. 3162), was passed without the Congress or Senate even being
allowed to read it before voting on it, the police can now secretly
search your house and take whatever they want from it without having
to tell you about it until they issue you a warrant up to six months
later (see Sec. 213). Also, the legal definition of "domestic
terrorism" was changed to include any "acts dangerous to human life
that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of
any State" (see Sec. 802)--which could quite literally be jaywalking.
Indeed, smoking a joint could quite literally be domestic terrorism as
defined under this law, since the U.S. government considers such drug
use to be dangerous to human life, and since it is illegal after all.
But such an act is supposed to only qualify if it "appear[s] to be
intended to influence the policy of a Government by intimidation or
coercion." So smoking a joint would only be an act of "domestic
terrorism" if the U.S. Government thinks a person is doing it as a
protest against their drug laws--the clause for "intimidation" already
applies, otherwise the U.S. government would have no law against it.
And since Public Law 107-40 (September 18, 2001) was enacted and Bush,
Jr. signed the November 13, 2001 Presidential Military Order, *habeas
corpus* has been done away with as U.S. citizens can now be held
indefinitely and in secret on the mere suspicion that they are in some
way involved in "terrorism" (which can now be virtually anything: see
the above redefined definition of "domestic terrorism") without even
being charged; they can be tried by a secret military tribunal where
they will not have the right to cross-examine their accusers; and they
can be executed in secret. Of which color-of-law precedents that
totally eviscerate the legal rights of U.S. citizens have now been
further strengthened by Public Law No. 109-366, 120 Stat. 2600
(October 17, 2006), i.e., the "Military Commissions Act of 2006" (H.R.
6054); this law also retroactively attempts to get the U.S. government
out from under the Geneva Conventions. Indeed, U.S. citizens have
already been held for years without any charges even having been filed
against them (such as José Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi), and the U.S.
government says that it can keep U.S. citizens that way indefinitely.
So it's not surprising to find that the U.S. government has been
torturing innocent people, including U.S. citizens. This includes U.S.
soldiers torturing people in U.S. custody to death.
"Pakistan: U.S. Citizens Tortured, Held Illegally--FBI Participated in
Interrogations Despite Apparent Knowledge of Torture, Abduction,"
Human Rights Watch, May 24, 2005
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/05/24/pakist11005.htm
"Exclusive: Secret Memo--Send to Be Tortured," Michael Isikoff,
Newsweek, August 8, 2005 issue
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8769416/site/newsweek/
"Outsourcing Torture: The secret history of America's 'extraordinary
rendition' program," Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, Issue of February 14,
2005, posted February 7, 2005
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050214fa_fact6
"CIA kidnapped terror suspects in the EU: lawmaker," Reuters, April
26, 2006
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=11968389
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/CIA-kidnapped-terror-suspects-in-EU/2006/04/26/1145861421384.html
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/april2006/260406CIA.htm
"Bush admits the CIA runs secret prisons," Deb Riechmann, Associated
Press (AP), September 6, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060906/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush
Khalid El-Masri, an innocent German citizen, was abducted from
Macedonia and held by the U.S. military without charges from January
23 to May 28, 2004, during which time he was anally sodomized and
tortured by the U.S. military. He was taken by the U.S. military to
Baghdad, Iraq and then to the "Salt Pit" clandestine CIA torture
center located north of Kabul in Afghanistan.
"Khalid El-Masri," Wikipedia, June 25, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khalid_El-Masri&oldid=60497313
"Lawsuit Against CIA Is Dismissed: Mistaken Identity Led to
Detention," Jerry Markon, Washington Post, May 19, 2006; Page A13
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/18/AR2006051802107.html
An innocent Algerian man, Laid Saidi, was held without charges in one
of the same clandestine CIA torture centers in Afghanistan that Khalid
El-Masri was held, from May 2003 to August 2004, wherein the two saw
each other. Mr. Saidi was abducted from Tanzania and held by the U.S.
military, during which time he was anally sodomized and tortured by
the U.S. military.
"Algerian Tells of Dark Term in U.S. Hands," Craig S. Smith and Souad
Mekhennet, New York Times, July 7, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/world/africa/07algeria.html
"CIA sent me to be tortured in Afghan prison, says Algerian," Jerome
Taylor, Independent (U.K.), July 8, 2006
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1166575.ece
Below is the case of the innocent man, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen
who was arrested in New York in September 26, 2002 by the U.S.
government and taken to Syria to be tortured for ten months on behalf
of the U.S. government:
"Canadian Was Falsely Accused, Panel Says--After Tip From Ally, U.S.
Sent Muslim to Syria for Questioning," Doug Struck, Washington Post,
September 19, 2006; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/18/AR2006091800883_pf.html
"Canadian police errors led to man's torture--probe," David Ljunggren,
Reuters, September 18, 2006
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18316511.htm
"Report: Canadian Terror Suspect Tortured--and Was Likely Innocent,"
Associated Press (AP) and Reuters, September 18, 2006
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003123959
In the Bagram, Afghanistan U.S. military base, U.S. government
officials publicly admit that they're murdering Afghan inmates there
by torturing them to death:
"Afghan prisoners beaten to death at US military interrogation base:
'Blunt force injuries' cited in murder ruling," Duncan Campbell, The
Guardian (U.K.), March 7, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,909164,00.html
"Prisoners 'killed' at US base," BBC News, March 6, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2825575.stm
"Army Details Scale of Abuse of Prisoners in an Afghan Jail," Douglas
Jehl, New York Times, March 12, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/12/politics/12detain.html
Included in the U.S. government's use of torture against innocent
people is the rape of women and male children:
"US military confirms existence of horrific pictures and video,"
Andrew Buncombe, Independent (U.K.), May 9, 2004
http://www.rense.com/general52/erh.htm
Among other tortures, U.S. Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba's report details
homosexual anal rape committed by U.S. soldiers. Also detailed in U.S.
Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba's report and by other U.S. military sources,
Military Intelligence and the CIA ordered the torture at the Abu Ghaib
prison.
"U.S. Army report on Iraqi prisoner abuse: Executive summary of
Article 15-6 investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade by
Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba," NBC News, May 4, 2004
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4894001/
"Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade,"
Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba, U.S. Army
http://www.npr.org/iraq/2004/prison_abuse_report.pdf
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/taguba.pdf
"Green light for Iraqi prison abuse came right from the top:
Classified documents show the former US military chief in Iraq
personally sanctioned measures banned by the Geneva Conventions,"
Andrew Buncombe, Independent (U.K.), April 3, 2005
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0403-03.htm
"Pentagon Report Set Framework For Use of Torture: Security or Legal
Factors Could Trump Restrictions, Memo to Rumsfeld Argued," Jess
Bravin, Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2004
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0607-01.htm
As Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said to reporters on May 7, 2004
concerning the pictures and videos of U.S. military torture of Iraqis
that the U.S. government still refuses to release: "The American
public needs to understand we're talking about rape and murder here.
We're not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience.
We're talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges."
See:
"Rumsfeld: Worst Still To Come--Pentagon Boss Apologizes To Iraqis;
Says More Videos, Photos Exist," CBS News and Associated Press (AP),
May 7, 2004
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/08/iraq/main616338.shtml
"Rueful Rumsfeld: 'Cruel' truth hurts: Rape and murder feared in Iraq
abuse," Noelle Straub, Boston Herald, May 8, 2004
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.economics/msg/53904eefc5efc3fa
And as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on May 7, 2004 before
the Senate Armed Services Committee (and he essentially said the same
thing before the House Armed Services Committee on the same date)
concerning the pictures and videos of U.S. military torture of Iraqis
that the U.S. government still refuses to release:
""
First, beyond abuse of prisoners, there are other photos that depict
incidents of physical violence toward prisoners, acts that can only be
described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhuman.
Second, there are many more photographs, and indeed some videos.
Congress and the American people and the rest of the world need to
know this.
In addition, the photos give these incidents a vividness, indeed a
horror, in the eyes of the world. ...
If these are released to the public, obviously it's going to make
matters worse. That's just a fact. I mean, I looked at them last
night, and they're hard to believe. And so beyond notice. That's just
a fact.
""
See:
"Rumsfeld Testifies Before Senate Armed Services Committee," FDCH
E-Media (Federal Document Clearing House), May 7, 2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8575-2004May7
http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2502
"Testimony before the House Armed Services Committee: Transcript of
Testimony by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, House Armed
Services Committee," Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense,
U.S. Department of Defense, May 7, 2004
http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/2004/sp20040507-secdef0401.html
http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/2004/sp20040507-secdef0421.html
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/security/has128000.000/has128000_0.HTM
http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2525
"In quotes: Rumsfeld faces Congress," BBC News, May 7, 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3694995.stm
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Yet almost all of the prisoners held by the U.S. military are
completely innocent:
"Most 'Arrested by Mistake': Coalition intelligence put numbers at 70%
to 90% of Iraq prisoners, says a February Red Cross report, which
details further abuses," Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2004
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0511-04.htm
"U.S. war prisons legal vacuum for 14,000," Patrick Quinn, Associated
Press, September 17, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060917/ap_on_re_mi_ea/in_american_hands
From the above article:
""
Many say they were caught up in U.S. military sweeps, often
interrogated around the clock, then released months or years later
without apology, compensation or any word on why they were taken.
Seventy to 90 percent of the Iraq detentions in 2003 were "mistakes,"
U.S. officers once told the international Red Cross.
""
"AP: Gitmo Detainees Say They Were Sold," Associated Press, May 31,
2005 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0531-10.htm
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The U.S. government has been training its troops and foreign NATO and
U.N. military for a long time (i.e., well before the U.S.
government-staged 9/11 attacks) in putting U.S. citizens in
concentration camps and for total gun confiscation.
Watch Alex Jones's first two Police State video documentaries (both
published well before the U.S. government-staged 9/11 attacks) where
you can see U.S. troops training with U.N. troops in disarming
American citizens and putting them into concentration camps, and
anouncing over their loudspeakers: "Be calm, there is food, there is
water in the camp. Violation of camp rules will not be tolerated!"
They had American role-players screaming back at the U.S. and foreign
U.N. troops, "I'm an American! I'm an American! You can't do this to
me! I have rights!"
On Alex Jones's first two Police State video documentaries you can see
many more of these training exercizes conducted in other cities and
towns. Below you can watch Alex Jones's first two Police State videos
in full and for free:
Police State 2000 (published 1999)
http://www.archive.org/details/PS2000
Police State II: The Takeover (published 2000)
http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceStateII
There have literally been hundreds of these type of training exercizes
going on in the U.S. since the early 1990s. For example, see:
Operation Urban Warrior, Oakland, California 1999
http://www.infowars.com/ouwmar9901.html
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Australian, British and other foreign troops training with U.S. troops
for total gun confiscation of U.S. citizens and in rounding up U.S.
citizens into concentration camps at Operation Urban Warrior, Oakland,
California 1999
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For more on this subject, see below:
"U.S. Can Confine Citizens Without Charges, Court Rules," Jerry
Markon, Washington Post, September 10, 2005; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090900772.html
"Reagan Aides and the 'Secret' Government," Alfonso Chardy, Miami
Herald, July 5, 1987
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/secret_white_house_plans.htm
http://www.noncombatant.org/trove/chardy-shadow-government.pdf
"Martial Law Concerns," Congressman Jim McDermott, House of
Representatives, March 11, 2003
http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/sp030311.shtml
Below are some archives for mainstream major media news articles
dealing with these gulag matters:
Primary Prison Planet Mainstream-Media News Archive on FEMA
Concentration Camps
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_concentration_camps.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_concentration_camps_old.html
FEMA Camps/Martial Law Archive
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_fema.html
The below archived news articles deal with how the U.S. government can
indefinitely hold U.S. citizens who have not been charged with any
crime (as the U.S. government has already been doing), and how U.S.
citizens in general can be tried by a secret military tribunal where
they will not have the right to cross-examine their accusers, and they
can be executed in secret:
Habeas Corpus Archive http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_habeas.html
The below news articles talk about how the U.S. government can
quarantine whole cities and round U.S. citizens up to be put in
concentration camps in the event of, e.g., a bio-weapons release:
Model States Emergency Health Powers Act [which has been passed on the
Federal level] Archive
http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives_modelstates.html
Below are some additional documentation resources to learn more about
the FEMA concentration/extermination camps in the U.S.:
http://infowars.com/goodphotos.html
"Concentration Camps in Okanagon County?," Associated Press (via KXLY
News), February 25, 2003
http://web.archive.org/web/20030408233829/http://www.kxly.com/common/getStory.asp?id=26857
http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_022703_camps.html
Interview of Okanogan County Commissioner Dave Schulz
http://www.prisonplanet.com/schultz_02_27_03.mp3
And see also:
"Foundations are in place for martial law in the US," Ritt Goldstein,
Sydney Morning Herald, July 27, 2002
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/27/1027497418339.html
"Secret FEMA Plan To Use Pastors as Pacifiers in Preparation For
Martial Law: Nationwide initiative trains volunteers to teach
congregations to 'obey the government' during seizure of guns,
property, forced inoculations and forced relocation," Paul Joseph
Watson, Prison Planet.com, May 24, 2006
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/240506femaplan.htm
"Paramilitary Secret Police Kidnap, Detain, Torture Bilderberg
Investigators: Interrogators threatened to 'cut off arms' during 6
hour marathon of hell," Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com, June
29, 2006
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2006/060706manraided.htm
"Terror Canadian Style," Joe Burd, TruthMovement.CA (accessed June 28,
2006) http://www.fathers.ca/anyone_can_be_called_an_insurgent.htm
http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/terror_canadian_style.htm
"Man Raided By FBI, ATF, Canadian Law Enforcement After Handing Out
'Subversive' Alex Jones Material: Gun seller questioned on militia,
ownership of George Washington speeches," Paul Joseph Watson & Alex
Jones, Prison Planet.com, July 6, 2006
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2006/060706manraided.htm
--
James Redford, author of "Jesus Is an Anarchist," revised and expanded
edition, June 1, 2006 http://praxeology.net/anarchist-jesus.pdf