"No, of course. We don't torture people in America"

[DoYouEverWonder]

amnesty international

In Australia on 18 October, asked in a television interview whether two Australian nationals held in US custody in Guantánamo Bay were being tortured, President George Bush offered a categorical denial: "No, of course. We don't torture people in America. And people who make that claim just don't know anything about our country".(1)

On the same day, it was revealed that eight US soldiers had been charged with acts of brutality against prisoners of war in Iraq.(2) One of the prisoners had died.

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Two Afghan men died in US custody in Bagram Air Base in December 2002. The autopsy reports gave the cause of death as "homicide" and "blunt force injuries" were found in both cases.


Bu$h claims we don't torture people in America. I suppose he means we only torture them if they are somewhere else like Guantánamo or Bagram.

BTW: I know for a fact that people are tortured in America on a regular basis. Go to any American prison, I'm am sure you will find at least a few instances of people who have been tortured.

[DrWeird]

1. That's OK, Iraq and Cuba aren't America.

Torture goes on all the time in those countries.

[xultar]

2. We are being tortured...

The police in this country beat and torture people all the freakin time.

Think about that Black surgeon who was beat up in LA cuz they thought he stole a rental car. They wouldn't even read his rental paper work they just beat him handcuffed him so tight that now he can't perform surgery. The guy was like in his early 50's for god sake.

[madrchsod]

3. the chicago they

busted a chicago police percint for torturing prisoners to obtain confessions to crimes...so georgie,if you would read something more than children`s books you would know that there is torture in america.

[NNN0LHI]

4. Anyone who says it doesn't happen here is either a fool or a liar, or both

http://www.truthinjustice.org/burge.htm

Judge appoints special prosecutor in police torture probe


By Mike Robinson
Associated Press Writer
April 24, 2002


A judge appointed a special prosecutor today to investigate allegations that criminal suspects were tortured by a Chicago police homicide commander and the detectives under him.

Judge Paul Biebel found that State’s Attorney Richard Devine had the appearance of a conflict of interest and would not seem objective if he investigated the charges. snip

Defense attorneys have been charging for more than a decade that former Lt. Jon Burge, the one-time commander of a violent crimes unit that covered the far south end of the city, and the detectives under him tortured suspects until they confessed by placing a typewriter cover over their heads, dunking them in water and giving them electric shocks.

The Police Department fired Burge in 1993 after an internal investigation found one instance of improper conduct.

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This cop was torturing people until they signed statements confessing to death penalty cases here in Illinois. Afterwards they would be tried and sent to death row. The death row here in Illinois was emptied out a few years ago after the Republican governor ordered an investigation and found that 13 out of 25 men on death row at that time were innocent. Lt. Jon Burge is currently enjoying his retirement playing golf in Florida.

Don

[Military Brat]

5. No, we just support it

"School of the Americas" anyone?

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. As usual the US media doesn't even notice

Koby and Laci are so much more important.