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by mousnonya
At least 26 prisoners in u.s. custody have been tortured to death during the war of terror.(1) This is by u.s. military and civilian agencies' admission.(2)
MIM wants to point out to the reader some facts: 1) The imperialists lie. They will say whatever they need to justify wars of aggression. In Iraq it was the lie of "weapons of mass destruction". The c.i.a. itself admits that Iraq had no "weapons of mass destruction".(3) 2) The imperialists regularly ship prisoners to imperialist lackeys for torture.(4) These 26 dead are only the ones in u.s. custody. We don't hear about all the victims, for obvious reasons.
International law universally condemns torture. Yet the u.s. government at Abu Ghraib and Bagram(5) regularly tortures and kills persyns. The united $tates regularly violates international law.
When the united $tates claims to be upholding "freedom," it is lying. The u.s. government claims to be fighting for "freedom." In fact it is like Orwell's 1984: the imperialists want the freedom of capitalists to rape and enslave around the globe. Their motto might as well be "war is peace"--because that is all the imperialists offer-- war after war. In reality, the u.s. is not upholding "freedom" or "democracy" or "international law": the united $tates is upholding one thing and only one thing-- corporate profits, which are extracted from the Third World through "loans," arms sales, structural adjustment programs, the world bank, slave labor and resource exploitation.
MIM mourns the death and torture of all u.s. prisoners whether in camps at Guantanamo(6), at Abu Ghraib(7), in "Hotel California"(8) or in the u.s. prisoner plantations in the empire itself(9). These deaths grease the wheels of capitalism. The imperialists are torturing foreigners today: tomorrow we expect them to start torturing amerikans just as happened in u.s. puppets Chile, Argentina and Indonesia. This happens because resource dependency and overextension of u.s. imperialism continue to erode amerikan power.
Get smart. Organize resistance. End imperialism before it ends you.
Notes:
(1), (2) '26 criminal homicides in US military custody', Agencies, Wednesday March 16, 2005, The Guardian,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1438982,00.html
(3) CIA Admits: No WMD in Iraq MIM Notes N. 314, 15 Feb. 2004 http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/mn/mn314.pdf
(4) Craig Whitlock, WashingtonPost.Com, 12 March 2005, Europeans probe CIA role in abductions
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7164399/
(5) Prisoners 'Killed' at US Base, BBC News, Mar. 6, 2003, http://
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2825575.stm
(6)MIM U.$. rulers pull legal tricks, fool Amerikan public, anger the world,
http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/mn/sept112001/lindhpows.html
(7) Abuse of Iraqi prisoners: the U.$. prison connection
by MC17 & MC5 http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/agitation/iraq/iraqprisonconnections.html
(8)Welcome to CIA's Hotel California, Sydney Morning Herald, Mar. 4, 2003, http://
www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/04/1046540174835.html
(9) A HISTORY OF AMERIKKKA'S OPPRESSIVE CONTROL UNITS
by an Iowa Prisoner, Oct. 18, 1995 (reprinted from MIM Notes)
http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/agitation/prisons/controlunits/ctrlunithistory.html