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Trump And CIA Director Pompeo Both Love Torturing People; CIA And White House Suppressed US Senate Report On Torture Plus Cruel And Unusual Punishment In The USA, Senate Released It, Bush Era Torture Laws Still On Books, Children In Adult Prisons

Trump And CIA Director Pompeo Both Love Torturing People; CIA And White House Suppressed US Senate Report On Torture Plus Cruel And Unusual Punishment In The USA, Senate Released It, Bush Era Torture Laws Still On Books, Children In Adult Prisons - Legal Migrants Being Tortured

LEGAL ASYLUM SEEKING MIGRANTS BEING TORTURED IN TRUMP ICE PRISONS


Caged alone 24 hours a day, denied medicine: lawsuit claims ‘torture’ in US migrant jails | US news | The Guardian
The suit filed in Los Angeles on Monday outlines individual experiences at eight different facilities, but immigration lawyers say the mistreatment is representative of systemic problems that affect tens of thousands of people. The complaint comes as the Trump administration escalates its efforts to make it harder for asylum seekers and migrants from certain countries to come to the US, detains undocumented migrants for longer periods of time and expands the use of private prison contracts in the immigration system.

Attorneys said the conditions at some US detention centers were so brutal that migrants who have fled torture and violence “are forced to abandon viable claims for immigration relief and accept deportation out of a desperate desire to escape the torture they are enduring in detention on US soil”.

“They cannot take it any more,” said Elissa Johnson, an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of several not-for-profit organizations involved in the suit in Los Angeles. “That is not a choice that anyone should have to make,” she told reporters.

When the country of immigrants starts torturing immigrants who have a legal claim of asylum, and those same legal migrants are put in prison with the assumption that they are all criminals, down to the children and babies, that is psychotic and sociopathic..

The US is sinking lower and getting much darker, as fascism rises.

2018 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON TORTURE


The United States continued to move backward on human rights at home and abroad in the second year of President Donald Trump’s administration. With Trump’s Republican party controlling the legislative branch in 2018, his administration and Congress were able to pass laws, implement regulations, and carry out policies that violate or undermine human rights.

In March, the US Senate confirmed Gina Haspel as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In 2002, Haspel ran a CIA detention center in Thailand where she oversaw torture, and in 2005 advocated for, and helped to destroy, videotaped evidence of CIA torture.

The US is assisting Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) run and secure detention facilities in northern Syria where the SDF were holding nearly 600 men from 47 countries accused of being Islamic State (ISIS) fighters or members. At time of writing, the US had also transferredat least eight detainees from SDF custody to Lebanon, seven to Macedonia, and other foreign nationals to Iraq. One dual US-Saudi citizen was held in US custody for over a year until October, when the US was finally pressured through litigation to release him. The US was also reportedly considering transferring hundreds more from SDF custody to Iraq, Tunisia, and other countries for detention. It was not clear what kind of process to safeguard against abuse the US was providing detainees transferred, but the transfers raised concerns that detainees may face torture or unfair trial, and not have an opportunity to challenge their transfers before they occur.

US MEDICAL DOCTOR COMPARES TRUMP'S CHILD CONCENTRATION CAMP TREATMENT OF MINORS IMPRISONED THERE, AS TORTURE


Doctor compares conditions at facilities for detained migrant children to ‘torture’ | TheHill
A physician who was called to visit a U.S. border facility in McAllen, Texas, last week after five infants held there were placed into neonatal intensive care due to a flu outbreak has reportedly compared conditions at the facilities to “torture.”

ABC News reported Tuesday citing details from a medical declaration by Dolly Lucio Sevier that minors at the McAllen facility were forced to endure “extreme cold temperatures, lights on 24 hours a day, no adequate access to medical care, basic sanitation, water, or adequate food.”

“The conditions within which they are held could be compared to torture facilities,” Lucio Sevier, who assessed nearly 40 minors at the facility – Customs and Border Protection’s largest detention site in the nation – wrote in the declaration, according to ABC.



WHAT IS THE CURRENT NEOCON AND NEOLIB BELIEF SYSTEM AROUND WAR AND TORTURE? 



What is torture?

What is cruel and inhumane treatment?

Does torture work?

Does torture gain the truth, or just more and more lies?



This article goes into the basics about whether torture works, what is torture, cruel and unusual punishment and outrages such as humiliating and degrading treatment, as well as whistle blowing and what Trump plus is CIA director think about torture, black CIA torture sites, and more...

TRUMP USED TO LOVE WIKILEAKS AND ASSANGE, BUT NOW THAT HE IS PRESIDENT, HIS CIA DIRECTOR HATES IT AND EVERYONE ASSOCIATED WITH IT, SO TRUMP DOES TOO



CIA head: WikiLeaks a 'non-state hostile intelligence service'
CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Thursday hammered WikiLeaks, calling the organization a "non-state hostile intelligence service."

In his first major public appearance since taking the top intelligence post in the Trump administration, Pompeo took aim at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked confidential information about NSA surveillance to news outlets before seeking refuge in Russia.

"It's time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: A non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,” he said.

Pompeo said disclosures by Assange and Snowden have done "great harm to our nation’s national security and they will continue to do so in the long term," adding that the revelations have hurt the U.S.'s relations with foreign partners.
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/328730-cia-director-wikileaks-a-non-state-hostile-intelligence-service

Currently, Trump is treating Assange as a terrorist, and charging him with crimes that normally only terrorists are charged with.

PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HIS CIA DIRECTOR LOVE TORTURING PEOPLE, WANT TO USE IT A LOT MORE, TRUMP COMPLAINS WATER BOARDING IS 'NOT TOUGH ENOUGH'


With both Trump and CIA Director Pompeo in favor of torturing people and dark sites all across the world, just like under President Bush, what could go wrong?

Donald Trump likes torture “a lot”
The presumptive Republican nominee wants to use torture in the fight against the Islamic State and complains waterboarding isn’t “tough enough.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2016/06/29/donald-trump-likes-torture-a-lot/?utm_term=.1c3d4dda8e53

Go deeper into Trump and his love of torturing people and the negative consequences of torture here........

Taxi To The Dark Side Documentary Movie; CIA And US Government Policy On Torture, Death Via Murder By Torture Of Prisoners Held At Bagram And Guantanamo Detention Facilities, Does Torture Work Against Terrorism?
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2013/01/taxi-to-dark-side-bbc-full-length.html

NAZI STYLE CAMPS AND SEPARATING CHILDREN FROM THEIR PARENTS IS TORTURE, AS IS TREATING ASYLUM SEEKERS LIKE CRIMINALS; VIOLATION OF MULTIPLE LAWS AND INTERNATIONAL TREATIES



How low is the US sinking? Fascism is the hallmark of all despotic regimes, as is torture. The US now has both fascism and torture as official 'legal' policy. 




TRUMP IS FILLING HIS ADMINISTRATION WITH PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT AND LOVE TORTURE, BUT NO MASS MEDIA COVERAGE TALKS ABOUT THIS; WHY NOT? UN LISTS TORTURE AS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY


The UN office on genocide prevention created a definition of crimes against humanity.. 

Here is a small piece of that document. 









Under F. you will notice it lists torture.

Under G. are listed all sexual related crimes against humanity, including forced pregnancy, which is what fundamentalist evangelicals are trying to ram down everyone's throat.

ONLY IGNORANT OR STUPID PEOPLE CLAIM THAT TORTURE WORKS AND THEY ARE NOW SITTING IN THE WHITE HOUSE


ONLY STUPID PEOPLE SAY TORTURE WORKS — AND ONE OF THEM IS SITTING IN THE WHITE HOUSE

A 2009 Senate Armed Services Committee review concluded that torture “damaged our ability to collect accurate intelligence that could save lives, strengthened the hand of our enemies, and compromised our moral authority.” That’s why the Senate voted in 2015 to turn the presidential ban on torture into official law. To his credit, Trump did water down his original support for torture, allowing Defense Secretary James Mattis — who opposes torture — to override him.

But if the Trump administration is now opposed to torture, why are they nominating the architects of America’s torture fiasco to key posts? Take Steven Bradbury, nominated to be general counsel for the Transportation Department. Bradbury is infamous for writing the legal memos authorizing CIA torture at the Bush Justice Department.

Bradbury’s confirmation was placed on hold by Senator Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq veteran who lost her legs in the war. “The actions you helped justify put our troops in harm’s way, put our diplomats deployed overseas in harm’s way, and you compromised our nation’s very values,” she said angrily at his confirmation hearing.

Or what about Donald Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, Christopher Wray? Wray was at the Justice Department when attorney John Yoo and others were drafting their torture memos. Wray knew about detainee abuse and did not, as head of the criminal division, bring charges against any of the Bush administration torturers — except for one low-level CIA contractor who beat a prisoner to death.

A third person connected to torture is Gina Haspel, who was appointed deputy director of the CIA. Haspel ran a “black site” prison in Thailand where suspects were waterboarded — and then helped destroy video of the interrogations.

The Senate Intelligence Committee meticulously documented the sordid U.S. record of torture under the Bush administration in a 6,770-page report. But the public hasn’t been able to read it — only the executive summary has been released.

TRUMP IS TRYING HARD TO BRING BACK TORTURE INTO STANDARD PRACTICE AND PART OF NORMAL US POLICY 


Can Trump Bring Back Torture?
The Trump administration is looking into bringing back torture, according to a draft order published by the The New York Times and the The Washington Post on Wednesday. The draft order would also open up the detention camp at Gitmo for new detainees, rescind an Obama-era directives confining interrogations to techniques in the Army Field Manual and giving the Red Cross access to all detainees held by the United States.

The draft order, in which words like “jihadist,” “terrorist,” and “nation” are crossed out and replaced with “radical Islamism” and “homeland” respectively, directs national security officials to “recommend to the president whether to reinitiate a program of interrogation of high-value alien terrorists to be operated outside the United States.”'
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/trump-torture/514463/



TORTURE WAS NORMAL AND ORDINARY DURING DARK AGES, MIDDLE AGES, INQUISITION AS PART OF RELIGIOUS PRACTICE AND BELIEF SYSTEM; IT IS BEING BROUGHT BACK BY TRUMP AND FUNDAMENTALIST EVANGELICALS



Anyone who thinks fundamentalist evangelicals are peaceful and mild are sadly mistaken.


CIA, PRESIDENT AND OBAMA WHITE HOUSE STAFF SUPPRESSED US SENATE REPORT ON TORTURE



President Obama promised to have an open and transparent government, but the opposite seemed to happen. The following report comes directly on his watch and the decision to try and block it's release comes directly from his office.



GlobalResearch - As of 2014, the White House and CIA are suppressed "a major US Senate report on torture at CIA secret prisons between 2002 and 2006. The 6,000-page report was completed two years ago, but release of even a censored version of its 500-page executive summary has been blocked by CIA demands that so much of the document be redacted that it is almost incomprehensible.

Two days before the report was made public, seven UN human rights experts issued an open letter to Obama that, while couched in friendly, even obsequious language, called for “the fullest possible release” of the CIA torture report and warned that Obama’s decision on the document would have “far-reaching consequences for victims of human rights violations everywhere and for the credibility of the United States.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/un-report-documents-torture-police-violence-in-us/5416982

THE DANGERS OF AMERICAN FASCISM RISING UNDER NEO CON AND NEO LIB POLICIES


The CIA does not want it's name in the news related to torture, rendition, wars, takeovers of countries and assassinations, but that is what this agency does. For more on this, scroll down to the CIA section at the following link...

Torture has not gone away, it is just the targeted victims that have changed. 

Art And Science Of Deception; Global Corporations, CIA, Journalism And The 1%, Whistleblowers, Voting, Elections And Solutions
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/p/corporations-art-and-science-of.html

What do you call a country that does not follow the rule of law, which relies on torture, black sites and holding people in detention facilities with no lawyers, no trial, no charges, no jury, no oversight, forever? Got fascism?

Ron Paul and Frank Zappa on the Danger of American Fascism
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gLDzDklTRU

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WANTS TO BURY AND HIDE ANY EVIDENCE OF TORTURE, SO IT IS SENDING IT'S COPIES BACK TO CONGRESS; BURYING HEADS IN SAND

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SENDS CIA TORTURE REPORT COPIES BACK TO CONGRESS
JUNE 3, 2017 A GREEN ROAD PROJECT

The Trump administration has begun returning to Congress copies of a 2014 Senate report detailing the CIA’s controversial detention and interrogation program, raising the possibility that the 6,700-page document could be locked away for good.

The CIA, the agency’s inspector general and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have so far returned their copies. The FBI and the departments of Justice, State and Defense were also sent copies in 2014.

The report, the result of a yearslong investigation spearheaded by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats under then-chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), details the CIA’s use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other so-called enhanced interrogation techniques that are considered torture by international standards.

Considered the most complete accounting of the Bush-era program, the so-called “torture report” found many of the CIA’s practices were overly brutal and possibly illegal.

Since its completion, the document has been the focal point of a fierce tug-of-war between committee Democrats and civil liberties advocates — who fear it will be buried forever — and congressional Republicans, who argue that it is overly critical of the CIA.
via Trump administration sends CIA torture report copies back to Congress | TheHill


TOP SECRET CIA BLACK TORTURE SITES WHERE DETAINEES WERE FLOWN VIA CIA JETS, IN ORDER TO BE TORTURED IN COUNTRIES WHERE LAWS WERE NOT AS STRICT AS IN THE USA, TRUMP IS IN FAVOR OF BLACK TORTURE SITES; WILL CIA RESTART THEM UP AGAIN?



Adam Prine There was a secret C.I.A. program, initiated after September 11th, in which terrorist suspects were detained in “black sites”—secret prisons outside the United States—and subjected to unusually harsh treatment.

A 6,700-page government report details the scope of these operations and the CIA’s use of torture. But as of 2015 the report had been being kept hidden, even from members of Congress and government officials.

In Afghanistan, a "black site" that has emerged as the most brutal was “Detention Site Cobalt,” which was built outside Kabul for $200,000 in 2002, according to the Senate report. Described in the report as the "Salt Pit" and the CIA prison most like a "dungeon," it was dark inside 24 hours a day. Torture tactics employed by interrogators there hoping to "break" the site's prisoners included dousing suspects in water, leaving them in cold cells and blasting music to keep them up for days at a time. Forced rectal feedings also took place.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/13/the-black-sites

http://ideas.ted.com/a-brief-history-of-secret-prisons-in-the-united-states/

http://www.ibtimes.com/cia-black-sites-secret-prisons-where-us-held-its-terror-suspects-1747795

UPDATE: SENATE RELEASES TORTURE REPORT, DESPITE CIA AND OBAMA WHITE HOUSE ATTEMPT TO BLOCK IT 


Transcript
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/torture-doesnt-work-big-takeaway-cia-report-sen-feinstein/#disqus_thread

TWO PSYCHOLOGISTS WERE PAID 81 MILLION TO DEVELOP TORTURE PROGRAM, REPORT SAYS TORTURE WAS BRUTAL AND INEFFECTIVE


Two military psychologists were paid $81 million to develop the CIA’s enhanced interrogation 
Swigert and Dunbar formed a company in 2005 to house their work with the CIA. The contract was terminated in 2009 under the Obama administration. According to the summary, the CIA’s indemnification contract requires that “the CIA is obligated to pay Company Y’s legal expenses through 2021.”
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/came-idea-use-enhanced-interrogation-techniques/

Report: CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques ‘brutal’ and ‘ineffective’

Full CIA Senate Report Here
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/cia-interrogation-report/



SIX GUANTANAMO DETAINEES SENT TO URUGUAY, SINCE US REPUBLICAN CONGRESS KEPT BLOCKING THEM FROM BEING SENT TO US PRISONS

The Republican Congress kept Guantanamo open despite Obama efforts to close it.

Jebus December 10, 2014 Pentagon: Six Guantanamo Detainees Sent to Uruguay
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pentagon-six-guantanamo-detainees-sent-uruguay-n263231

Guantánamo detainees now in Uruguay can bring families and find work, government says
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/08/guantanamo-detainees-uruguay-families-work

CHENEY SAYS TORTURE WAS JUSTIFIED AND BUSH KNEW ALL OF THE DETAILS, THEY WOULD DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN; US HAS LEARNED NOTHING AS TRUMP BUILDS ON 'LEGAL' TORTURE LAWS THAT WERE PUT IN PLACE UNDER BUSH



And satan himself weighs in.  Cheney: 'The report's full of crap'
Contrary to the report's conclusion that Bush didn't know the extent of the CIA's efforts, Cheney said the President was involved in discussions about the interrogation techniques, and that Bush even pointed out some of those conversations in a book he wrote after leaving office. He said he has no regrets about the tactics used after the Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks. "I think what needed to be done was done," Cheney said. "I think we were perfectly justified in doing it. And I'd do it again in a minute." Cheney slams Senate torture report, says practices were effective
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/cheney-slams-senate-torture-report-says-practices-were-effective



Source/credit Ring of Fire

Despite failing to produce any useful information about imminent terrorist attacks, the CIA meted out these and other brutal treatments for years after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

And with dozens of people having since been released without charge, and at least a quarter of them officially declared to have been "wrongfully detained", the effects of torture live on with the victims, burned into their minds.

In this 50-minute Fault Lines special, we expand on our original film The Dark Prison, exploring the plight of the men struggling to overcome their harrowing experiences of torture since leaving CIA-run black sites.

Watch the original film The Dark Prison here:
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2016/03/dark-prison-legacy-cia-torture-programme-160322104029035.html

BUSH ERA TORTURE LAWS STILL ALIVE AND WELL 


Bush created torture laws are still alive and well in the US, despite President Obama saying he would get rid of these illegal laws and policies that violate the Geneva Convention. If anything, things got worse under President Obama, and now under President Trump, it may get worse yet. 

Part I 
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/1Oeefm5luUQ 10 min.

Part II
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/n2DCwGMUJiA

Part III
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/6m9GiwxZxno

Part IV
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/d7HMfdND2rQ

CIA foreign rendition program to other nations

Part V
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/UpODmEIZNqE

FBI Agent talks about his experience with Guantanamo and various torture techniques used.

Part VI
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/JlarEZqjlzE

Jew talks about torture and experience under Hitler, losing moral compass. Numerous autopsy reports, detailing CIA caused homicides inside Guantanamo and Bagram, due to torture.

Part VII
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/b-7yTnkqZh4

Former lead prosecutor at Guantanamo statement and declaration about detainee, showing falsified confession, torture details and suicide attempt. No credible evidence to hold him or to torture this detainee for 6 years. 

Part VIII
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/Ha0kulwBC4g

Churches can lead on this issue by exposing these issues to the light of day, but have not found their voice so far, just as churches stood aside for Hitler, Mussolini, etc. 

www.LNG.org  National Lawyers Committee 


Discussion of essential aspects of the U.S. torture policies and consequences.

The Law

- What is torture?
- What laws, treaties, regulations, and codes of conduct were violated in the process of approving and implementing torture?
- What exceptions may have allowed a torture program?
- What has stopped parts of the program, and what still remains?
- Who may be guilty of war crimes?
- What legal actions are underway to prosecute those who are guilty of war crimes?

How Was it Done

- Who conceived of, authorized, and implemented the torture program?
- What key legislation made this possible?

The Detainees

- Who have been the typical "detainees"?
- What is the status of those remining in captivity?
- What countries have offered to take them upon release

GOVERNMENT GOING AFTER JOURNALISTS FOR DOING THEIR JOB, PREVENTING THEM FROM WHISTLE BLOWING, THROWING THEM IN JAIL

The job of a journalist is to be a balance and check against absolute power via the government. What happens in a country when those exposing corruption, deception, fraud, lies, and worse are thrown into jail?

Naomi Wolf is interviewed about whistle blowers, jailing political dissents, and threatening to go after news media. This happened under President Bush, but has escalated under President Trump, who called the media the 'enemy of the people'. 
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/9WW2d1jYmY8 12 min.

PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLS PRESS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, AND ONLY FOX NEWS TELLS THE WHOLE TRUTH ACCORDING TO HIM (JUST LIKE STALIN, HITLER AND OTHER DICTATORS)





WAR ON JOURNALISTS; PRESS IS SEEN BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AS THE 'ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE'



Gianforte Body-Slammed the Vote | May 31, 2017 Pt. 2 | Full Frontal on TBS
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/o-krxtaJ2-E

Ask a Republican rep a question, and it gets you physically assaulted.

Anyone who complains about being PHYSICALLY assaulted, is a cry baby according to the eXXXtreme right wing media. Why get the police involved just because you got attacked? You had it coming to you! Lucky you didn't get 'popped'.

Is this the new face of Republicans?.. Extreme right wing fundamantalism combined with brutality and racism.



Trump Cozies Up To Human Rights Violating Saudi Arabia, A Dictatorial, Despotic Regime That Stones People Who Protest King To Death, Chops Off Hands Of Children Or Beheads Them And Sponsors Terrorism Including 9/11 Attack On USA; Why?
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2017/05/trump-cozies-up-to-human-rights.html

Deep State Russia, Putin Engineered An American Coup That Got Trump Elected; Proof, Evidence And Data, Sarcasm And Humor, Numerous People Killed Or Fired While Investigated Trump/Russian Ties, Including FBI Director Comey, Not Even Nixon Dared Do That
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2017/03/deep-state-russia-acting-inside-usa-to.html

Trumpitis Is Spreading Via Political Pathology; Disease Is Very Infectious And Virulent, Resulting in Increasing Acts Of Hatitis Crimes, Random Acts Of Racismosis, And Breakout Of Pustulent Bigotritis Plus Fearolosis, Fake News Plague
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2016/11/trumpitis-is-spreading-via-political.html

7 Deadly 'Sins' Or Universal Temptations (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth), Are Overcome Via 7 Virtues (prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, charity) Spiritual Battles Are Fought Daily By Everyone
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2017/05/7-deadly-sins-or-universal-temptations.html

A Delusional President Trump Is Failing, Losing, And Lying; Humpty Dumpty Had A Great Fall Off Of A Very Great White Supremacist Wall, He Cannot Undo Self Inflicted Fatal Wounds Because Character Is Destiny
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2017/02/the-many-ways-president-trump-is-losing.html

12 Reasons Why Trump Quitting The Paris Climate Deal Is A REALLY BAD Idea For America, And The Rest Of The World
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2017/06/12-reasons-why-quitting-paris-climate.html

WAR ON WHISTLE BLOWERS; NO ONE DEFENDING THEM IN SENATE OR CONGRESS OR JUSTICE DEPT.




























Robert Greenwald - The CIA, 1% And Government War on Whistleblowers

Art And Science Of Deception; Global Corporations, CIA, Journalism And The 1%, Whistleblowers, Voting, Elections And Solutions
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/p/corporations-art-and-science-of.html

bo December 10, 2014 "The only CIA employee to go to prison over torture was the guy who blew the whistle on it. No other person connected to the torture program has been charged with a crime."
http://abcnews.go.com/International/cia-operative-prison-punishment-whistleblowing-torture/story?id=27474359


DRUG SENTENCES ARE VERY HARSH IN US, COMPARED TO OTHER CIVILIZED COUNTRIES, WAR ON DRUGS HAS BEEN LOST, BUT TRUMP IS DOUBLING DOWN AND THROWING THE BOOK AT EVERYONE


Why are prisons and drug sentences so harsh in this country, compared to any other country in the world? Why is the USA imprisoning more people per capita than any other civilized country in the world? Why is the US so fixated on wars against drugs, women, minorities, and more? What about focusing on the SOLUTIONS, rather than resisting them via constant never ending WAR?

Portugal Decriminalized ALL Illegal Drugs In 2001; Drug Laws in Portugal Focus On Treatment Rather Than Punishment, Addicts Are Ill, Not Criminals; Drug War Did Not Work And They Gave It Up, Getting Much Better Results Now

Why are so many privatized prisons nothing more than a business that need a constant, never ending flow of 'criminals' so that the local city and county budget is met, and profits meet a predetermined target? Huge prisons pay a huge tax bill, and creates many 'jobs', which is seen as a positive thing. 

What are we accomplishing by locking up drug dealers, who then get drugs delivered to jail by their guards or by other convicts? Drugs are actually easier to get inside jails and prisons than they are outside of prisons, but the guards are the ones making the money off of it, and quite possibly the jail warden as well. 

Drug War Is A Complete And Utter Failure; Fast And Furiously
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/12/drug-war-is-complete-and-utter-failure.html

Why The Drug War Is A HUGE Failure
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/drug-war-is-huge-failure.html

AMERICA IS NOW LIVING IN THE FAKE REALITY OF 1984, WHERE DOCTORS DESTROY HEALTH, LAWYERS DESTROY JUSTICE, UNIVERSITIES DESTROY KNOWLEDGE, GOVERNMENTS DESTROY OR BLOCK FREEDOM, PRESS DESTROYS INFORMATION, AND RELIGION DESTROYS MORALS, AS BANKERS DESTROY THE ECONOMY AND VALUE OF MONEY



Save Planet Earth 911 Eco-Justice Project; Global Emergencies And Planetary Threats
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/p/why-all-nuclear-plants-must-be-shut-down.html

Peace And Justice, Human Rights Justice Project; War, Veterans, Drones, Human Rights, Justice, Prisons, War on Drugs, Violence Prevention, Death Penalty, Jury Rights, Gay/Women's Rights, Pro Choice
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/p/human-rightsjusticeprisons.html

Matrix Education And Justice Project; Drugs, Medicine, GMO's, Super Bugs, Cloning, Flouride, Vaccines, Education, Chemicals, Factory Farms
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/p/natural-health-drugs-medicine.html

Mass Media Justice - Censored, Top Secret Whistle Blowing Project; Art And Science Of Deception, Global Corporations, ALEC, TPP, CIA, Journalism, The 1%, Whistleblowers, Voting, Elections, Solutions
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/p/corporations-art-and-science-of.html

IS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BASED ON TRUTH OR LIES? 

It would help if the Trump administration were after the truth. But what makes everything much worse, is that truth has nothing to do with what Trump has in mind, along with his administration. A society based on lies cannot stand long, and it is not sustainable. 

Wayne Michaud; Today’s New York Times has the most definitive (and most up-to-date) compilation of Trump’s lies I’ve seen. 

HOW DOES HE GET AWAY WITH IT? I still think the truth matters. PLEASE spread this to your friends, email it, Facebook it, Tweet it, etc.!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html

Combine a fondness for lying and add a love of torture, and what would you expect to happen in the future, if it is allowed to progress to full maturity.




WHAT HAPPENS TO CRIMINALS WHO ARE PUNISHED IN JAIL, BUT GIVEN NO EDUCATION, NO REINTEGRATION SKILLS?


What happens to criminals inside jail? Do they get 'better' somehow through punishment, neglect, abuse, being raped and isolated for years in solitary confinement? Or are we getting worse trained criminals after they get released, because they are sent to a specialized 'school' that concentrates all master criminals together into one place, where they have nothing else to do or look forward to, but to plan future crimes in better and more creative ways? Not providing education or any meaningful job skills to criminals and not giving them any skills in how to cope in the world ensures that they they will commit crimes once they are released. In other words, capital punishment does not work. 

What about the 8th Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment? Could prison be viewed as a cruel and unusual punishment, especially for people subjected to years of isolation cell time?

What Are Universal Human Rights?
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-are-universal-human-rights.html

US RANKS 5TH IN EXECUTIONS, UP THERE WITH COMMUNIST CHINA, IRAQ AND RUSSIA


US ranks 5th in Executions globally, with countries like Iraq, China, Russia
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/us-ranks-5th-in-executions-ahead-of.html

US 'JUSTICE SYSTEM' SENTENCES CHILDREN TO LIFE IN PRISON, AND/OR GIVES THEM LONG PRISON SENTENCES IN ADULT JAILS


In the USA, there are 73 13-14 year old children that have been sentenced to LIFE in prison, and imprisoned in isolation cells in adult prisons.

If this is not cruel and unusual punishment, what is?

Now Republicans are planning a war on children and infants via eliminating the school lunch program, healthcare for kids, food stamps, Planned Parenthood and a slew of other programs designed to protect children.

Why not focus more on protecting US children and foster kids, instead of an egg or sperm?

Why wage wars on women who try to use birth control or have abortions due to difficult life circumstances? 

Children In Adult Prisons Across US; This Cruel And Unusual Punishment Has To Stop! Seattle Passes Resolution To Ban Children In Prison, Restorative Justice As Solution
http://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2015/07/children-in-adult-prisons-across-us.html


IS KEEPING PEOPLE IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT FOR YEARS TORTURE? 


A surprise ruling from the European Court of Human Rights could send five terror suspects to a super-maximum security prison in the United States. Is keeping inmates in solitary confinement for years a form of torture? Or is Supermax a necessary tool to combat global terror? April 13, 2012. This Global Ethics Corner slideshow is part of a weekly series from the Carnegie Council. To see all Global Ethics Corners, go to 


Do Super-Maximum Security Prisons Constitute Cruel and Unusual Punishment? Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
VIDEO https://youtu.be/khHL-2x6tcE 2 min.




EVEN US CITIZENS ARE NOW LEGALLY ABLE TO BE TORTURED, VIA BUSH PASSED TORTURE POLICIES


What is humane and caring about legalized 'torture', implemented under Dick Cheney and President Bush? Amnesty International discusses this issue and interviews one 'detainee' subjected to this 'treatment'. Even US citizens are now legally able to be 'tortured', under US law.


Amnesty International: Torture and Human Rights DefendYourFreedom
VIDEO https://youtu.be/2RPPMYJ2FWc 5 min.

LEGALITY OF STATE SPONSORED TORTURE ISSUES


After the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the US has come under intense scrutiny for its use of 'enhanced interrogation techniques' that many experts have called torture. Now there are calls to bring those responsible in the US government to justice. Philippe Sands is a Professor of Law at University College, London. In his new book "Torture Team", Sands explores the legality and ramifications of the US program of state-sponsored torture behind closed doors at Guantanamo Bay.

'President Bush should be criminally investigated for torture'
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/f7_bN92BtIE 12 min.

SALEM WITCH TRIALS ALSO LEGALIZED TORTURE, AND WERE BANNED AS BEING USELESS PLUS WORTHLESS; TARGETING PAGANS OR DISSENTING CHRISTIANS WHO DID NOT AGREE WITH FUNDAMENTALIST EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS, WHY IS TORTURE LEGAL TODAY?


It used to be legal for the church to torture people, especially unbelievers, until they either confessed or died. The Salem witch trials were popular at a certain time, with torture and death being very popular and profitable for those who engaged in this policy.


Witches, Witchburning and Torture in the 16th and 17th century in Europe

Witch hunts are still happening today....

Witch Hunts, Witch Trials And Witch Burnings, In Salem, Europe, Africa, India, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, And Saudi Arabia In History and Present Day
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2014/07/witch-hunt-witch-trials-and-witch.html

FEAR BASED HOLY CRUSADE INSPIRES AND SUPPORTS LEGALIZED TORTURE PLUS CONCENTRATION CAMPS, AND GENOCIDE AS THE FINAL SOLUTION


But it worked both ways, sometimes with the Roman state torturing believers, having wild animals eat them in a public square, with a goal of trying to make them give up their faith or religion. 

Now the US government in combination with the CIA and private for profit corporations have taken the place of the church, with the same attitude, and torture like punishments, plus a 'holy' crusade against all 'evil' doers. All must submit to the 'law', or be punished through imprisonment, isolation, rendition, torture and/or slow death. 

Those who disagree with laws banning taking drugs taken in certain ways, (marijuana or mushrooms grown in the backyard), but allowed in others (by prescription from profit motivated holy robed monks/doctors) must be punished, jailed, tortured and/or be put to death.

Church's Inquisition -Torturing Those Who Disagreed (3 of 6)

The Church's Inquisition was set to torture and kill those who disbelieved in the Bible. Not only that, they also tortured, stoned and/or burned those alive who believe in the Bible but disagreed with the Church's interpretations. 



Heretics, unbelievers, political opponents, and anyone disagreeing with whatever the Church leaders said were all targets. Even other Christians were targets for burning alive, if they did not agree and 'convert' to the 'right' version of Christianity. Here is one documented historical example of this.....

History of Torture "Ancient Torture" History Channel Documentary

When a nation imposes a state sponsored religion, as was the case in the 'good ol days', this is the consequence, because any other religion or denomination is seen as the 'enemy' and must be punished, or put to death. This dark consequence of state religion is why there is a separation between church and state in the United States, as it is written into the Constitution. Sadly, many Christians don't understand this basic and fundamental part of American history. Those who don't learn from history, are condemned to repeat it. 

Death Penalty: Why Do Americans Support It?
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/09/why-do-americans-support-death-penalty.html

2012; Torture And Renderings Still Legal In The USA
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/2012-torture-and-renderings-still-legal.html

NDAA; Anti Constitutional Law Passed To Hold US Citizens Without Charge
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2013/01/ndaa-anti-constitutional-law-passed-to.html

FUNDAMENTALIST EVANGELICAL LEADER SAYS TORTURING CHILDREN AND HOLDING THEM IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS IS JUST FINE WITH HIM



Jerry Falwell Jr. questions evangelical leader over criticism of facilities holding migrant children | TheHill
Evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. on Tuesday defended the Trump administration amid criticism over conditions migrant children have faced in U.S. detention facilities.

Falwell lashed out at Russell Moore, a theologian and president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, for criticizing the administration following reports of detained migrant children held in unsanitary and inadequate conditions.

“The reports of the conditions for migrant children at the border should shock all of our consciences,” Moore said in a tweet Tuesday morning. “Those created in the image of God should be treated with dignity and compassion, especially those seeking refuge from violence back home. We can do better than this.”


CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT, WHAT IS IT? 


Isolation in cells for years, strapping people into chairs that hold them immobile for long periods, using abusive light, temperature and noise levels are all cruel and unusual punishment. It can consist of making people eat terrible things... Have you ever heard of Nutraloaf or prison loaf, slop loaf? It bears many names, but is something that prisoners across the US know all too well as the food they're forced to eat.

In one particular case it has made an inmate terribly ill and last week, a federal appeals court ruled that what he was served could violate the 8th Amendment, and be considered cruel and unusual punishment. So what else do we know about the food that the prison population eats? Dr. Jeffrey Ian Ross from the University of Baltimore discusses this in the next video.....

Nutraloaf: Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Cfirwzi_Muc 7 min.

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SUMMARY

How can Trump fill his cabinet with people who support torture, but the mass media is completely silent about it?

Why does no one know about what goes on inside US prisons, whether that is torture, 13 year olds sentenced to life in jail, people in insanity producing isolation cells, and more? Why aren't solutions like legalizing all drugs and offering drug treatment instead of jail even being debated in Congress and Senate? 

What is justice?

Who is profiting from the current set up of natural plants like marijuana and mushrooms being illegal? Got Big Pharma? 

Why are 80% of the people in jail in the USA there due to anti drug laws, or related non violent offenses? 

Why are we locking up and executing more people per capita than any other country in the civilized world?

What are we getting with all of this focus on violence and endless wars? Are US citizens getting more freedom, more democracy, more security and safety, or less of all of these? It seems like the US is getting the opposite of what is desired. ..

So why does the government keep doing things that do not seem like they are working?  Could it be that the profit motive and the corporate interests behind the scenes are keeping things as they are, despite the increasing money being poured into the war on crime and drugs, which are not working?

The Pope has a message for US political leaders, and Trump specifically..
VIDEO: https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/videos/1559538300805885/

There truly is a way to get win win solutions, that work for everyone on the planet. Ask the question; What works for 7 future generations of the world's children, without causing them harm? How do we create a world that works for EVERYONE?

Torture, executions, prison and wars are not anything that we should be focusing most of our budget, time, energy, jobs and money on...

Follow where the question leads... and don't resist it.

It also helps to laugh at what is going on while debating these questions...

HOW TO MAKE COVFEFE! Thanks Trump!
VIDEO: https://www.facebook.com/smosh/videos/10154578237056765/

Try not to laugh!

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