Let's Not Mince Words About America's 'Death Camps'
This is an excerpt from a site that translated a Hungarian websites' commentary on our not-so-secret-anymore CIA camps in Europe.
As it becomes clear that certain governments have indeed allowed those camps on their territory, it's also becoming clear that the citizens in those countries are more upset by them, than we are. They have every reason to be, and so should we. But it appears that we really don't care that much, because there are still too many idiots here who still accept and believe that this sort of behavior is necessary to fight the terrorists. While we debate (albeit half-heartedly) the meaning of the word 'torture', our torturing continues. And while it continues, we are creating more and more hostility towards us, that will itself, create more terrorists.
The cronic liars in our government have convinced many here that they should be allowed to do whatever they want, to whomever they want, wherever they want, to fight the terrorists. They've tried convincing us that a finite enemy is infinate, and everywhere, yet it appears that they only used the threat of terrorism to scare us into blindly accepting a crusade towards American global domination. A crusade that had been planned long before 9/11, back when the Soviet Empire collapsed. Bush and his neocon puppet-masters are simply initiating a program that they believed was supposed to have begun during the first Gulf War. They were pissed when Bush senior abruptly ended that war. This is why Bush junior was so insistant on rushing into war with Iraq again, using lies and exaggerations to get his way. 9/11 was simply a convenient excuse to use.
These CIA camps, as well as those such as Guantanamo bay, are very clear symptoms of the disease that's infected our government, and it's people. It's people are infected, since even though approval ratings are extremely low, there's not much attention being paid to our clearly unAmerican activities, and nobody here is raising much of a fuss. Our politicians, notably the Democrats, aren't really saying much either. That's because both partys are complicit in this, despite what the liberals would have us believe.
I'm begining to wonder if those European camps were meant to be exposed, to drive a wedge between the EU member states, to stunt the EUs' growth. It's clear that the EU will grow and eventually rival the U.S. in many areas, and that certainly would cause problems for our crusade. Think about it, did we really need to set up camps there? There are certainly many other places we could've established them without anyone finding out. Not even released prisoners would be able to tell anyone where they were.
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"Each year, the U.S. State Department issues a report on Hungary that measures our respect for human rights, and how we're proceeding on our road to democracy. Basically, it's about whether we're behaving ourselves. Anyone can see it on the Embassy's homepage. I'm reading it now, and it's making my blood boil. I know I should be ashamed, but I'm thinking: Why don't you report on your mother, you Yankee peasant! America has no moral basis for this."
"Placing concentration camps in Europe is a level of brashness that not even the Soviet Union achieved. This matter of outsourcing gulags could be a watershed in European-American relations: do we forgive this, because we've seen concentration camps before, or do we make a worldwide scandal for exactly that reason? It looks like these camps are within Eastern Europe's comfort zone. It wasn't heads of state who reported to Brussels that, damn it, these animals are building death camps in Europe! No, it was the Washington Post who first raised this issue. They took it as an honor, and then made excuses while happily appeasing the beast. One is reminded of any number of past terrorist states. It may seem harsh, but history shows that if a set of institutions is built where anyone can be annihilated by those in power, then the machine guns are already waiting in the wings, and they're going to go off. If you're not with us, you're against us. Who said American democracy is permanent and unbreakable?"
As it becomes clear that certain governments have indeed allowed those camps on their territory, it's also becoming clear that the citizens in those countries are more upset by them, than we are. They have every reason to be, and so should we. But it appears that we really don't care that much, because there are still too many idiots here who still accept and believe that this sort of behavior is necessary to fight the terrorists. While we debate (albeit half-heartedly) the meaning of the word 'torture', our torturing continues. And while it continues, we are creating more and more hostility towards us, that will itself, create more terrorists.
The cronic liars in our government have convinced many here that they should be allowed to do whatever they want, to whomever they want, wherever they want, to fight the terrorists. They've tried convincing us that a finite enemy is infinate, and everywhere, yet it appears that they only used the threat of terrorism to scare us into blindly accepting a crusade towards American global domination. A crusade that had been planned long before 9/11, back when the Soviet Empire collapsed. Bush and his neocon puppet-masters are simply initiating a program that they believed was supposed to have begun during the first Gulf War. They were pissed when Bush senior abruptly ended that war. This is why Bush junior was so insistant on rushing into war with Iraq again, using lies and exaggerations to get his way. 9/11 was simply a convenient excuse to use.
These CIA camps, as well as those such as Guantanamo bay, are very clear symptoms of the disease that's infected our government, and it's people. It's people are infected, since even though approval ratings are extremely low, there's not much attention being paid to our clearly unAmerican activities, and nobody here is raising much of a fuss. Our politicians, notably the Democrats, aren't really saying much either. That's because both partys are complicit in this, despite what the liberals would have us believe.
I'm begining to wonder if those European camps were meant to be exposed, to drive a wedge between the EU member states, to stunt the EUs' growth. It's clear that the EU will grow and eventually rival the U.S. in many areas, and that certainly would cause problems for our crusade. Think about it, did we really need to set up camps there? There are certainly many other places we could've established them without anyone finding out. Not even released prisoners would be able to tell anyone where they were.
posted by Fred | 12/13/2005 09:05:00 PM
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