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Susan Harley's avatar

Strong words and condemnation, good to see Jill Steins Statement. It would be a wonderful miracle if more Americans voted for her.

You are courageous in your fight and resistance , bravo❤️‍🩹

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Aug 6Edited

The harsh truth is we cannot even call Israel a spoiled child of a weak parent.

In fact the US is not only THE mass murderer and sadistic torturer in this world, also it STILL runs the world's biggest gulag.

https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr51/046/2014/en/

"...eptember 2, 2014 Index Number: AMR 51/046/2014

USA: ‘We tortured some folks’: The wait for truth, remedy and accountability continues as redaction issue delays release of senate report on CIA detentions

The fact that President Obama not only ended the CIA secret detention program, but has also publicly acknowledged that torture was a part of it, is to be welcomed. Nevertheless, the President once again failed to say that torture is a crime under international law, that every instance must be subjected to investigation and that anyone responsible for it must be brought to justice. President Obama’s silence on accountability and redress reflects the USA’s continuing and active failure to meet its international human rights obligations on these issues...."

Even now THIS WEEK as we speak Lloyd Austin is doubling down on the US government's wish to to show the world that it has a god-given right to torture and rape prisoners and hold them in a gulag for 20 years

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/08/06/zoig-a06.html

"..On Friday, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin revoked a plea agreement negotiated two days earlier between prosecutors and three defendants, who have been charged with murder and conspiracy for their alleged role in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001....A group called “September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows” issued a statement denouncing Austin’s revocation of the plea deals, saying:

That the secretary has now overreached and undertaken direct oversight of the 9/11 commission is cause for enormous concern. While we understand there are family members who are opposed to plea agreements, the reality stands that the 9/11 accused were tortured and several were sodomized. If any entity is at fault for the inability to prosecute this case with a slam dunk, it’s the torturers. Because of the torture, the 9/11 accused will not be put to death. And any administration official or member of Congress who says otherwise is either uninformed or politically pandering.

Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), issued a statement saying that Austin’s edict prevented a guilty verdict in “the most important criminal case of the 21st century,” adding that it “violates the law.” He said his organization would challenge it in court.

Romero went on to write: It’s also more than a little ironic that Secretary Austin’s gung-ho insistence on executing the 9/11 defendants directly contradicts the Biden Administration’s public commitment to ending the death penalty. The United States has spent decades and tens of millions of dollars trying to secure a death sentence that cannot be upheld in the face of the government’s torture.

The military detention, torture and prosecution of the 9/11 defendants without due process is part of the attacks by the American political system on basic democratic rights. That the unlawful treatment of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay is part of the deepening crisis of the entire US political system is shown by the fact that these prosecutions have been maintained by four different administrations, two Republican (Bush 2001-2008, Trump 2017-2020) and two Democratic (Obama 2009-2016, Biden 2021-2024)....."

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