This is News that should be “Breaking News”. This is the kind of news we never see, not even on the Internet.
This is a really great lesson in world politics and how it works from a eyewitness. It’s really fascinating to me.
http://www.democracynow.org/
Take a look at the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan who was fired for refusing to resign when he tried to expose British and American complicity in the torture of terrorist suspects by Uzbekistan. These terrorist suspects are the people that Larry Johnson says should not be tortured but only…um…mildly sleep deprived. Apparently incarceration without legal recourse and sleep deprivation are not torture in many American peoples thinking. Such comments about benign captivity and restraint go with little protest, even on this site. Sleep deprivation is torture. It doesn’t matter whether it is mild or not. Does anyone deny that? Come forward!
The Ambassador was asked to resign by his government….if he refused he was told he would be accused of trading passports for sex and money. He refused to resign and after a year he was fired for leaking memos about the horrors of the Uzbekistan torture centers and the use of them by the U.S. and British. He claims the government leaked the papers in order to fire him. This is how convoluted governments become and why there are few whistleblowers.
Much of Europe is now fully complicit with the United States in the torture and invasion of Iraq and the it’s people. The European complaints of the invasion appears to have been strictly public, while in private much of Europe participated and assisted the United States in the invasion and in the torture.
So many tortured. For nothing. All this torturing and none of the information leads to Bin Laden.
Why?