Sex Crimes in the White House »
Posted By Aidenag 3 months ago in NewsWe now know that the torture was the result of a policy set in the White House by Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Rice -- who actually chaired the torture meetings. The Pentagon has acknowledged that it had authorized sexualized abuse. And documents obtained by the ACLU have Rumsfeld, in his own words, checking in on the sexualized humiliation of prisoners.
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Spadecaller3 months ago
"Silence, and even collusion, is also typical of sex crimes within a family. Americans are behaving like a dysfunctional family by shielding sex criminals in their midst through silence."
Silence and complicity by Congress and by too many Americans who know the truth has given the entire world a frightening impression of our nation and the resemblance to the rise of fascism and Germany's silence has become a horrible realilty.
Refusing to acknowledge and to address these serious flaws in our government's conduct is becoming our nation's darkest moment in history. Those in power who fail to act will be remembered by many of us and by historians.
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Spadecaller3 months ago
Every politician who has failed to act against these crimes should be removed from office. This is not a partisan issue.
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jordan113 months ago
Rumsfeld, in his own words, checking in on the sexualized humiliation of prisoners.>>>>>
OK, where are the documents? Have they been authenticated? Put them in the news, and let the public see them. I have seen so many lies, innuendo's, & out of context accusations over this decade nearly over, that I am not going to believe anything until the evidence is in front of my face.
If the evidence of all this is shown, and the American people STILL sit complacently, then I will know this country has the morals of pigs, and deserves whatever it gets.
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berkeley3 months ago
there were several court cases in which the administration argued that the release of more photographs, including movies, of torture and abuse at abu ghraib would violate national security. and they won. the photos were not released.
but everyone in DC knows they exist. every senator. every congress member.
seymour hersh, among others, has spoken about it.
http://boingboing.net/2004/07/15/hersh-children...
we know the entire scheme was directed from the top. they've admitted it. we just have not seen all the pictures yet.
naomi could have written the same story years ago, but she has waited for more proof. now she feels it's here.
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gamahuche3 months ago
Even if we never get that Jordan, I do believe that its possible to examine the evidence that is out there and to intuit that there is no other explanation for what we already know went on at Abu Ghraib and at Guantanamo and for the way that it was handled, when discovered.
"A few bad apples" were the ones who were setting policy - not the ostensible dumb perpetrators who were administering the "treatment".
Some of the activity, especially the use of dogs, for example, is CALCULATED to be the most morally offensive possible for the victims and beyond the grasp of the Lyndie Englands of the cast.
This can never, ever be washed away and those ultimately responsible will never be able to escape from the consequences, whether they come sooner or later.
"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand of mine"..[virtual prize for 1st correct identification of that quote!]
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jordan113 months ago
I agree with you about the 'a few bad apples' being a smokescreen. This is very hard to get my head around. I think about all of the arrests among republicans for sexual crime, and have been concerned for some time about those who seek power within the republican party. It can't be a coincidence that so many have been perverts. And this....This is beyond my ability to completely comprehend. Maybe it's the rage welling up, and no place to put it. Self protection, I suppose. What can I do about it? What can anyone do about it? I have never felt so unable to respond, when there is nothing within our system willing to take it on. This whole issue is hiding in plain sight. Now what?
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AnteUp3 months ago
jordan11 ~
I remember after Abu Ghraib, I heard Seymour Hersh talking
about the evidence (which don't forget... WE have NOT been
shown ALL that they had - we were "spared" much of the
gruesome evidence) that really bothered him the most.
It included hearing the screams of the young boys being
sexually abused. Really? I never saw it or heard it - did
anyone of us? Our government has withheld much of the
video and photographic evidence they have.
We have been given snippets. Seymour's snippet has bothered
me from the day I heard him say it - he saw those videos.
It's old news - it is never discussed by the media - but
those mental images are still running around in MY brain.
We are rapidly losing our RIGHT to know - just try and
demand the facts from this administration - it will never happen.
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Mdiar3 months ago
Thank you, gama, for sending this to me. Utterly disgusting. I think that once this becomes fully revealed to the public at large... this administration will go to trial, somewhere. Whether its an investigation by Obama that leads to this or something more akin to Nuremberg, I don't know. Either is acceptable to me. No civilized people should have to sit by while crooks and madmen rule over them. They have a right to revolution, be it peaceful or violent.
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Poulenc3 months ago
One doesn't have to be Dr. Freud to see the link between torture and sex in its dominant-submissive, sadomasochistic dimension(s).
The very excitement that such can elicit simultaneously calls forth guilt and therefore suppression, if not repression.
I'm suggesting that there's a pile-up of denial here in the monstrous truth-withholding about events at Abu Ghraib.
Truly, the shame--in every sense--of the Bush administration is bottomless.
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dunkirk3 months ago
What appals me is the resemblance to methods used by the nazis and the soviets who we seemed to roudly condmen and who we know seem to embace their tactics.
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