Showing posts with label Torture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Torture. Show all posts

03 May 2015

C.I.A. Torture Psychologists James Mitchell And Bruce Jessen War Crimes Against Humanity Plan C.I.A. "Torture Chamber" Depravities Endorsed By CIA With American Psychological Association Top Officials Collusion Per Report

     Sunday, 3 May 2015, NEW YORK, NY- As in the aftermath of any modern day atrocity with worldwide impact degrading all human civilization and causing intense human suffering and misery there must be a large number of intimately involved culpable persons later in great personal fear of the inevitable march of justice bearing down on them demanding in civilized societies official public prosecution such that the continued aggressive avoidance of this inevitability comes to obsess their thoughts and determine their actions since no matter what the scope of their punishment they keenly are aware it hardly could be compared in scope and degree to the intensity of the sadistic depravity of the pain they have inflicted upon other human beings with perceived impunity, in the United States today for far too long such has been the case of not addressed by swift justice acts of atrocity committed by the as yet unprosecuted responsible participants at large in the irrefutably documented Bush Administration C.I.A. years-long torture program war crimes against humanity atrocities who from the outset had been joined in their deviously demented torture program and moreover in time actively enabled and encouraged by supposed "professionals" as thoroughly documented officially and communicated elsewhere publicly in widespread media reports as well as in many previous posts here with links provided to countless primary sources with torture-enabling professionals extending from legal hacks for hire stretching from the White House to the CIA to the Department of Justice to "medical professional" psychologist whores James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen who were paid $180 million by the C.I.A. to design its bogus depraved human torture program on the basis of no credible "interrogation" training or "torture" experience (such evidently being a valid job requirement for psychologists) whatsoever other than as now turns out what justification willingly and enthusiastically was provided after the fact by top officials of the American Psychological Association in support of their whore members' "work" with its officials supplicating themselves by encouragement of of torture with C.I.A. officials who with very good reason were most eager to suck others into responsibility for the cruelty of their criminal calamity extremely concerned that their and those for whom they were responsible actions were legally, evidently "medically" by psychology standards anyway, ethically and morally defensible or in other words would keep the whole  filthy guilty gang of them out of prison or worse.
     The details and extent of that encouragement or "bolstering" by American Psychological Association officials is well presented including the latest emerged supporting clear email evidence by Mr. James Risen reporting in the New York Times article of late last week linked to below. It may be of tangential interest to some readers that African-American attorney former C.I.A. officer Jeffrey Sterling for providing classified information to Mr. Risen not related to the matter at hand was last January 2015 convicted in U.S. Federal District Court in Alexandria, Virginia of espionage for which the U.S. government has sought a sentence of 19-24 years in prison consistent with the apparently not that "transparent" Obama Administration's severe crackdown to date on a "string" of federal employees and contractors who have been believed to have disclosed confidential information to news reporters. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder later admitted after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to rule on Mr. Risen's refusal to reveal sources that the Obama administration had "gone too far" in its crackdown as to reporters revealing sources.
     In any case what may turn out to be a most fortuitous turn of events for Mr. Sterling just the day before his scheduled 24 April 2015 sentencing hearing as reported here former CIA "love note" Director ex-General David Petraeus had been sentenced only to two years probation and a fine for "grave" breaches of confidentiality of national security information. (The Washington Post has dubbed Petraeus "[f]rom hero to zero".) Consequently with the outcry of his attorneys at the expected injustice of the laughable sentencing of the connected white ex-General vs. the 9-14 years recommended for the solitary black man Mr. Sterling's sentencing now has been continued to 11 May 2015. Finally the attorney for Edward J. Snowden who currently is exiled in Russia for disclosures to the press of N.S.A. unconstitutional mass surveillance and metadata collection states that his client Snowden is "under investigation" by the Department of Justice while he has made previous complaints about the "two-tier" system of justice for those charged with disclosing confidential information in a Foreign Policy online article linked to below and doubtless now also will point to the Petraeus case as pertinent to any prosecution of Mr. Snowden and his other "whistle-blower" clients        In any case back to the above report for anyone still following this responding late last year to the first public allegations against the American Psychological Association of its "bolstering" of the C.I.A.'s torture program a decade earlier in 2004 by hob-nobbing with and actually formulating torture compliant psychological practice "guidelines" while also helping its new C.I.A. psychological and "behavioral health" colleagues in manipulating the language of the C.I.A.'s own torture guidelines so as presumably to try to shield Bush Administration and C.I.A. officials and their increasingly nervous Department of Justice counterparts form liability and provide them some "medical justification" that not only were the members of the whole war crimes against humanity atrocities conspiracy doing no medical or legal wrong but that all could continue with impunity to support the torture of human beings which the C.I.A. then did for a few more years with the actual C.I.A. operative and contractor torturers sick enough to bear actually remaining on-site(s) in any case completely ignoring the torture guidelines as they haphazardly devised new depraved methods of cruel and unusual punishment pointlessly inflicting agonizing pain on humans whom they had kidnapped and/or captured which torture succeeded in producing no information of any reliability or any practical use whatsoever the American Psychological Association nevertheless has maintained in a letter linked to below it did nothing at all wrong but in any case last November 2014 engaged David Hoffman of the "white shoe" Washington, D.C. law firm Sidley Austin to conduct an "independent review" on the alleged collusion of his client's top psychologist officials with the C.I.A. in the American Psychological Association condoning and encouraging torture practices with which review Mr. Hoffman has not yet finished but hopes to before summer although in the meantime dissident health professionals and human rights activists who are not paid by the hour and work more quickly have already finished and just released their utterly damning report which is accessible in Mr. Risen's article linked to below.
     Letters to the editor follow in the second link below first concerning "deeply troubled" officials at the American Psychological Association denying assistance to the Bush Administration in justifying its use of torture and emphasizing that its "psychologists are prohibited from participating in torture" and referring readers who care to go to its website to read its policy on psychologists participation in interrogation. Next in the second link below comes an extremely severe utterly condemning letter from dissident psychologists expressing hope the report just released will bring finally an "end to the corruption embedded at the top" in the leadership of the American Psychological Association presumably meaning they all will be booted out permanently as they "provided loopholes for American psychologists to work in torture chambers" whose "duty to 'do no harm' and promote human health and the public good" they "blithely traded" for "access to power and privilege" which "is an ethical scandal of the highest degree."' The final letter to the editor last in the second link below is from the American Psychiatric Association making clear the "intensity of opposition" of that organization to the use of torture much less the participation of any its physicians in the practice of either torture or interrogation (in case any readers were confusing psychiatrists with psychologists.)
     The Ninth Amendment without editorial comment refers readers interested in more information to the below links referenced previously which are: (1) Mr. Risen's article reporting the findings of the report on the psychological association "bolstering" of CIA torture; (2) letters to the editor from the psychological association, dissident psychologists, and the psychiatric association; (3) Vanity Fair article detailing the background of psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen and the torture program they concocted for the C.I.A. for $180 million; (4) article on espionage conviction of Jeffrey Sterling for disclosing information to Mr. Risen unrelated to any provision of information to Mr. Risen in this matter; (5) and (6) articles regarding prosecutors urging severe 9-14 year sentence for Mr. Sterling then complicated by intervening Petraeus grave national security breaches getting misdemeanor probation and fine; and (7) Mr. Snowden's attorney's Foreign Policy online article alleging a "two-tiered" justice system for those disclosing confidential information.

(1) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-american-psychological-association-collaborated-on-torture-justification.html

(2) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/opinion/the-psychologists-'sand-the-torturers.html

(3) http://www.vanityfair.com/news/daily-news/2014/12/psychologists-cia-torture-report

(4) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us/politics/cia-officer-in-leak-case-jeffrey-sterling-is-convicted-of-espionage.html

(5) http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/federal-prosecutors-urge-severe-sentence-for-ex-cia-agent-in-leak-case/2015/04/21/4c8d1f5e-c001-4757-9b2a-50adf23b8d3c_story.html

(6) http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/attorneys-ask-judge-to-consider-petraeus-in-sentencing-ex-cia-officer/2015/04/24/cb970906-ea94-11e4-9767-6276fc9b0ada_story.html

(7) https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/04/petraeus-snowden-and-the-department-of-two-tiered-justice/

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21 April 2015

Foul DOJ Hypocrisy Of AG Eric Holder Revealed In Routine Support Of Police Violence And Civil Rights Violations In Every Case Before US Supreme Court

     Tuesday, 21 April 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - United States Attorney General (AG) Eric Holder is an absolute sickening hypocrite of the worst sort who parades himself around the communities of this nation holding himself out as a champion of the People's and particularly minorities such as African-Americans right for example not to be killed by the State for no reason at all as he presents and portrays himself and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) he heads in apparent sympathy with victims of rampant police abuses such as unprovoked violence in the routine use of excessive force and civil rights violations such as citizens being shot in the back by police officers of the State while in fact the truth about AG Holder is quite the opposite as a review of the record of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) AG Holder heads definitively proves that when these cases of the State's crimes against the People finally get before the United States Supreme Court in every single case without a single exception argued before the Court throughout the tenure of the Obama administration AG Holder's DOJ and its so-called "Civil Rights Division" has taken the side of the police and the State always defending police officers charged with out-of-control violence abuses against the American people and endemic civil rights violations against the People's fundamental rights such as not to be killed by the government whether one is needlessly shot eleven times by yet another cop emptying a full clip of bullets into the body of someone already clearly dead or if one is a mentally ill woman living in a mental health facility pepper sprayed in the face and then blown away by police shooting her for "threatening" them by holding a small bread knife.
     The Ninth Amendment previously has reported on the hypocrisy of AG Eric Holder DOJ's tragic actions or lack thereof which are directly responsible for the continuing unforgivable transgressions of the State against the American people needlessly ruining so many lives in the AG Holder DOJ's  absolute failure to fulfill President Obama's unequivocal presidential campaign promises to the people who got him elected to reform the criminal justice system especially in its plainly tragically wrong treatment of non-violent drug offenders (which President Obama long ago admitted he himself to be except he just was not caught so he could become President rather than perhaps have his own life ruined) which AG Holder hypocrisy now further has been documented extensively in the horrid record of AG Holder's DOJ in every single case encouraging U.S. Supreme Court rulings wrongly holding obviously unconstitutional law enforcement police violence abuses and civil rights violations against the People to be permitted as the law of the land.
     While police associations unsurprising support AG Holder unfortunately the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is cast as incorrectly sympathetic to AG Holder's DOJ although that largely could be because of the horrible record of preceding Republican AGs as to ignoring law enforcement abuses and especially those GOP appointees who committed such unpardonable abuses as using DOJ for everything they could to attempt to shield the Bush Administration and its Executive Branch agencies by issuing or endorsing completely bogus legal opinions such as attempting to shield from prosecution the NSA's obviously unconstitutional use of mass surveillance and metadata collection against the American people and most notably attempting to immunize the Bush Administration and its CIA with self-serving legal opinions trying to shield them from punishment for loathsome violations of United States and international law such as the Geneva Conventions for their commission of international war crimes against humanity committing their routine worldwide infliction of torture and indefinite uncharged confinement as well as kidnapping of persons of many nations all of which is no longer a secret to anyone in the United States or the world.
     Not that AG Holder's DOJ has done a single thing to charge those for these crimes who in the name of and as representatives of the United States now are well documented as having committed repulsive and grotesque criminal acts of torture on human beings in violation of United States and international law even as Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey former Bush administration Deputy Attorney General at DOJ has taken it upon himself needlessly to imply the complicity of Poland and Hungary in the perpetration of the horrors of the Holocaust drawing international outrage against this representative of the United States government who would have the audacity to for no reason at all at this time broadcast to the world such sentiments when the United States itself has proven to be among the worst human rights violators and abusers in modern times whether by torturing human beings or locking them up domestically in prisons as become an entrenched industry in astounding numbers that drawf the percentage of the population incarcerated in all other civilized countries.
     Readers interested in more information about the above most unfortunate undeniably abysmal record of AG Eric Holder's DOJ before the Supreme Court always having in every case without exception supported law enforcement abuses such as the excessive force of police violence and officers' civil rights violations against the American people encouraging the Supreme Court to make these abuses contrary to all principles upon this great nation was founded the law of the land only so they can be repeated over and over again no doubt just getting worse and worse due to the encouragement of ultimately a lack of criminal prosecution can to the link below.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/us/at-supreme-court-holders-justice-dept-routinely-backs-officers-use-of-force.html?_r=0

31 January 2015

EXCLUSIVE: Outgoing Defense Secretary Hagel Breaks Ranks With Obama Administration Says He Would Not Sign Certification Releasing Guantanamo Detainees Without Assurance They Will Pose No Threat To American Forces

     Saturday, 31 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - In an exclusive interview with CNN outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel broke ranks with the Obama Administration which continues years-long efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention and torture facility by saying that he as Defense Secretary would not sign any certification releasing detainees without assurance that they will not pose any future risk to United States servicemen and women. Hagel at the same time claimed that about 30% of those released will reappear on the battlefield with the Taliban fighting American troops. Last December outgoing Defense Secretary Hagel nevertheless expressed confidence that Afghan security forces are capable of themselves defending Kabul against the Taliban. The prior announcement of Hagel's (rumored forced) resignation as Defense Secretary was made late last November due to "job stress" and "decisions on ISIS/ISIL". Wikepedia - Chuck Hagel.
       Meanwhile Ed Royce (R-CA) Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs likewise took the opportunity of an interview with CNN to raise alarm as to what Royce claimed was a plan to release in contrast to Hagel's 30% figure the five highest risk detainees kept at Guantanamo who Royce claimed were all Taliban "leaders" two of whom Royce moreover claims have ties to Al-Qaeda. Royce claimed that after one year's detention in Qatar the five would be allowed to return to the battlefied. Further Royce stated that he believes such detainees should be kept in Guantanamo until such time as the Taliban is no longer an active fighting or organized force either in Afghanistan nor now also Pakistan. Royce volunteered no timeframe as to when he believed that might occur.
       Despite the Obama Adiminstration's long efforts to empty Guantanamo Bay pursuant to President Obama's original campaign promise and mandate those efforts have been delayed but not stopped altogether by among other things Congress' refusal to provide adequate funding to remove and place the detainees combined with the Obama Administrtion's difficulties apparently in finding suitable host destination countries. Meanwhile as the numbers of detainees at Guantanamo allegedly were decreased reportedly at least for some time the CIA simultaneously had been accused of "night dumping" of new detainees at Guantanamo presumably largely from CIA global "black sites" who for whatever reasons it no longer had been feasible for the CIA to keep at those sites. This practice would of course be facilitated by the CIA's apparent historical long-term inability for whatever reason to count the exact number of detainees held by the CIA at Guantanamo as to which detainees the CIA therefore has claimed a resultant inability to report exact numbers to superiors and overseers.
       The national and worldwide cries to empty and close Guantanamo of course have been greatly increased due to the horrific revelations made public by the release of the Bush Administration CIA Torture Report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concerning the never-before-known unreported scope or brutality and inhumanity rising beyond the level of torture to war crimes. This torture and these war crimes against humanity were committed by the CIA in conspiracy with the Bush Administration at Guantanamo Bay where the CIA undertook completely unprepared a torture program developed for the CIA by two "contract" hack psychologists for over $80 million of taxpayers' money.
       What American taxpayers got for the $80 million the CIA paid the two hack contract psychologists apparently was a "plan" including to chain detainees hanging from ceilings, chaining them to freezing cement floors overnight such that one was even murdered by this exposure, waterboarding including one detainee at least 83 times being made to believe he had drowned and to the point of total non-responsiveness, cramming detainees in small suitcases smeared with feces, mock executions, and one apparently unplanned particularly noteworthy horrorshow in which an apparently more unstable than the average CIA operative later sent home early for "anger management issues" without further punishment put an electric drill to the head of a detainee and forced the detainee to play Russian Roulette along with the angry CIA operative.
       Considering that these years of torture and war crimes against humanity committed by the CIA including its officials at the time and continuing to illegally cover-up with lies all the way to this day as well as top Bush Administration officials and their "hack" lawyers yielded absolutely no actionable intelligence whatsoever which anyone involved is capable of specifically identifying it is not known if Americans received their $80 million back from the two contract psychologists who must have spent at least fifteen minutes thinking up this brilliant torture plan (and then probably a couple more years trying to make it sound reasonable and come up with the equally imaginative euphemistic term "enhanced interrogation"). Perhaps these two psychologists also might be reined in on conspiracy charges where they too might experience "enhanced confinement" in a "federal secured enhanced rehabilitation facility").
        Finally as President Obama also has emphasized the amount of money Americans now are paying to hold each of these detainees numbers in the millions of dollars totaling at most recent reports more than $150 million annually to the Defense Department to maintain the Guantanamo detention facility. Apparently of the now than 127 detainees fully 80-90 have been "cleared" but with nowhere to go. Congress has prevented any from being sent to United States soil to be tried, imprisoned or for any other reason. Meanwhile what was an entire United States Naval Base on Cuba now must be maintained as a "military prison" as of January 2015 with a staff of over 6,000 service members, contractors and civilians to watch over the remaining 127 detainees of whom a small handful are thought to be a future risk. That totals at least 50 keepers for each detainee as well as the need to keep the entire facility open.
       Every day the remaining detainees are held uncharged untried unsentenced in a legal limbo anathema to every principle of American jurisprudence ultimately in the words of eighty-three (83) retired United States Generals and flag officers these remaining detainees serve first and foremost as one thing: "A recruiting poster" for terrorists who would declare the United States their enemy all over the world. In other words in every way Guantanamo represents the very absolute of everything it was meant to accomplish and a living monument to American failure.

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17 January 2015

French Consider New Terrorist Laws But "Ridicule" USA Patriot Act Idea N.Y. Times Reports As French Grapple With Threat Of New Laws To Civil Liberties

        Saturday, 17 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the wake of the horrific terrorist slaughters at the Charlie Hebedo satirical newspaper and the Hyper Casher market the French who reportedly have terrorist laws and enforcement that largely have been considered "robust" and met with the approval of U.S. officials are considering what further measures France should take in the fight against terrorism while balancing concerns about civil liberties of French citizens. Nevertheless measures roughly equivalent to the Patriot Act have long been seen by many in France as embodying United States government encroachments on individual rights and civil liberties particularly including domestic surveillance of citizens that cannot be justified by any terrorist threat to date. The consideration of the enactment of laws in France similar to the Patriot Act even in the wake of current events are "ridiculed" by the French as detailed in the New York Times article linked to below. The following Ninth Amendment comment on that article as of this time is pending approval and it is not known whether it will be published in today's New York Times digital edition:

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The warning voiced by the former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin against the French adoption of "exceptional" measures was a most incisive concise statement of the grave dangers posed by the Patriot Act from the time of its adoption since which it has played out in more and more horrific domestic realities which admonition he reportedly wrote in Le Monde that “[t]he spiral of suspicion created in the United States by the Patriot Act and the enduring legitimization of torture or illegal detention has today caused that country to lose its moral compass.” The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com consistently has warned that that "moral compass" is embodied in the United States Constitution from which our great Nation incrementally has stayed most dangerously further and further. The time for a renewal of a Constitutional faith and concomitant action consistent with that faith based on an honest interpretation of its text and the enduring principles embodied in the U.S. Constitution are our light and our hope for ourselves and our future generations as they have been for nearly two and a half centuries.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/world/europe/patriot-act-idea-rises-in-france-and-is-ridiculed.html?ref=todayspaper

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13 January 2015

Microsoft Gave The FBI, CIA, And NSA Encrytion Access To Skype, Oulook And Skydrive Conspiring In Illegal PRISM Other VIOLATIONS OF LAW

       Tuesday, 13 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ninth Amendment Editorial Board for interested/concerned readers provides the below link to a 2013 article appearing in Neogaf.com providing detailed information on how Microsoft Corporation in advance of product launches gave the FBI, CIA and NSA encryption access to Skype, Outlook and Skydrive thereby conspiring with those federal agencies to facilitate the unconstitutional and known to be illegal PRISM and other "Operations" (Violations of Law) in the gathering of metadata and other unlawful information collection practices violating the rights of U.S. citizens including but not limited to being free of warrantless illegal searches and seizures with no showing of probable cause or even reasonable suspicion, invasion of privacy, stifling of freedom of speech and of the press when such activities became more widely known, violation of civil rights and myriad other criminal violations which as in the case of torture the United States Department of Justice has let these most serious and blatantly unarguable violations of core fundamental constitutional and human rights go absolutely unprosecuted and unpunished with perpetrators therefore not only showing remorse but in well known recent instances saying they would "engage in the same behavior again".
       These lapses in federal law enforcement and inaction of the Obama Administration specifically including the United States Department of Justice which instead waste time and resources going after far lesser particularly drug offenses (which President Obama pledged as a Presidential candidate to address but like so many other civil rights matters has not) unless remedied may go down in history as some of the most significant and unexcusedly shameful legacies of both the tenure of Attorney General Eric Holder and moreover that of President Barack Obama and his entire administration given the gravity of these offenses which may well overshadow any other accomplishments of the time spent of Mssrs. Obama and Holder during their tenure in office. Without a doubt this already especially in the wake of the disclosure of the torture practices of the CIA is the case in the eyes of the world community whom the United States has so hypocritically incessantly hounded about their own human rights abuses for which it now has lost all moral authority should it not act very soon to remedy this situation by bring responsible parties to justice.
       The CIA, NSA and FBI are not in themselves either a fourth branch of government or anything more than discretionary executive branch agencies which answer to only one person who is the President of the United States Barack Obama. His continued inaction especially in the area of torture which to date he has not even addressed while leaving it to his spokesperson Josh Earnest to express the Administration's "confidence" in for example John Brennan Director of th0e CIA. Mr. Earnest must cringe inside when he is put in the position of telling that lie (although he know doubt is somewhat inured to the reality of the evil perpetrated as Mr. Brennan who when previously hanging around the White House in his counter-terrorism was  position commonly was known according to Democracy Now! as President Obama's "Assassination Czar".
        This inaction amounts to complicity and in the opinion of the Ninth Amendment editorial board further to the aiding and abetting of criminals as well as being guilty of obstructing justice and being after the fact accomplices to all crimes of which the Obama Administration is aware yet allows to go unpunished. One does not exercise prosecutorial discretion to exercise some of the gravest violations of and threats to the United States Constitution that this great Nation has ever known and which moreover must be addressed for it to continue to function with any moral authority either domestically or internationally. We must face that the "National Security" octopus must like the Republican party must constantly play over and over some fear card because that ultimately is all they have to justify their existence.
       Most shamefully not only does this failure to respect the Unites States Constitution which the Obama Administration including all federal agencies, officials and employees are sworn to uphold (not IGNORE) and which they and in particular Eric Holder's Department of Justice are charged with enforcing but as has been said publicly in no uncertain terms by guilty parties that would show so much bluster rather than any remorse given their growing conviction that by false bluster alone they will face of no punishment whatsoever it will encourage not only these criminals but their successor federal government officials to participate in the same sort of wrongdoing and if anything establish a precedent that clear statutory and constitutional violations by certain government officials as well as operatives and their contractors even most remotely acting "under" them will be immune from punishment regardless of their crimes against the American people, repugnant to the Constitution and even against humanity to the enduring disgust of the world community as the United States proceeds as if without inevitable consequence with a Constitution that after years of serious erosion at the hands of the federal government and the largely Republican appointed partisan judiciary finally collapses and with it the government that relies on it for its very existence yet has too long both ignored it and violated it with such complacency that it no longer realizes that it exists on a foundation of nothing but air and the hordes from everywhere from "das" Homeland to the four corners of the Earth are at the gates.

http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=620416

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10 January 2015

BREAKING NEWS: Four Star General David Petraeus Charges Referred By FBI To Department of Justice For Federal Criminal Prosecution For General Petraeus' Disclosure Of Classified Information While Serving As CIA Director

       Saturday, 10 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The FBI just has referred charges against Four Star General David Petraeus to the Department of Justice for federal criminal prosecution for disclosure of classified information in his capacity as Director of the CIA. The charges include allegations of his disclosure of classified information which Mr. Petraeus allegedly passed to his mistress Paula Broadwell while Petraeus was serving as Director of the CIA including from his in-house personal CIA computer.
       The married General Petraeus previously was found by an internal CIA investigation to have used his personal CIA office computer protected by only by a very weak password (such as e.g, named after his dog "Spot") itself in violation of CIA policy to have spent his time exchanging romantic emails with Patricia Broadwell with whom Petraeus was having an affair. Petraeus upon disclosure of this activity was either fired or forced to resign as CIA Director.
        The present CIA Director John Brennan among other things has been found to have ordered and/or conspired to commit acts of torture illegal under U.S. law and signatory international treaties and conventions the investigation of which Brennan and his CIA repeatedly have sought to obstruct by destroying and withholding evidence, claiming non-existent privileges seeking to impede and disrupt the investigation, lying to Congress and making false criminal charges against those sought with overseeing CIA activities which has turned out to be most likely a subterfuge while in fact Brennan and his CIA meanwhile actually have been hacking the computers of those on the Senate Intelligence Committee sought with CIA oversight among myriad other apparent criminal acts.
       Mr. Brennan to date is still in office as CIA Director and not yet in prison for these illegal activities. He may also be responsible for the probable murder of Rolling Stones investigative reporter Michael Hastings most likely through a cyber car attack as related in a previous recent Ninth Amendment post. Michael Hastings was responsible previously for reporting on the contempt expressed by General Stanley McChrystal and his senior aides in days spent with them making derogatory remarks about their Commander-In-Chief upon the publication of which General McChyrstal's military career effectively came to an end much as his senior four star General Petraeus' has following his complete lack of discretion in using his personal CIA computer with totally inadequate password to make love talk with his mistress while supposedly directing the affairs of the CIA.
       At the time of Mr. Hastings untimely death in a very suspicious single car accident a nearby video caught his Mercedes traveling at over one hundred miles per hour and swerving toward a tree before exploding in an horrific fireball which appeared to erupt before Hastings' car even hit the tree. Mr. Hastings on the day of his death had sent out frantic emails to all friends lacking his usual friendly salutations but expressing fear allegedly that "the FBI was following him". Later that day he was seen looking under his car before telling his wife that he was "on to something really big". Before he could tell anyone what that was Mr. Hastings was dead with his next investigative story scheduled to come out in just two weeks on CIA Director John Brennan. Although Rolling Stone announced it still would run Hasting's investigative report on Mr. Brennan on the originally scheduled date Rolling Stone in fact without explanation did not and never has subsequently.
        Meanwhile the FBI further just now as related above has charged former CIA Director Petraeus with the above-described disclosure of confidential information pursuant to the earlier CIA internal investigation following which President Obama either fired or forced the resignation of Petraeus as CIA Director. With the newly leveled FBI charges referred to the Department of Justice four star General Petraeus reportedly now holds the ignominious distinction of being the highest ranking U.S. military official ever found to have been charged with criminal behavior of anywhere approaching such a serious magnitude.
        To sum up General Petraeus served previously as Supreme Commander of United States and coalition forces over the entire Middle Eastern theater.  Petraeus now facing possible indictment in his previous military position was senior to the later disgraced General Stanley McChrystal who as commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan was fired or forced to resign by President Obama in the wake of the publication of the almost certainly later murdered Rolling Stone reporter's account of his time spent with General McChrystal and his senior aides in which General Petraeus and his senior staff reportedly repeatedly made derogatory comments about their Commander-In-Chief President Barack Obama.
       It is not known to the Ninth Amendment editorial board why the earlier CIA internal investigation did not result in CIA Director Petraeus' prosecution for passing of confidential information to Patricia Broadwell. Typically such an "internal" executive agency investigation would be performed by the agency's in this case CIA Inspector General (IG) who does not report to anyone in the CIA but to a separate and distinct IG hierarchy of outside officials.
       Should that have been the case at hand it is not known why the IG would not itself have passed on to the Department of Justice ifs findings presumably encompassing the disclosure of confidential information to Patricia Broadwell. The CIA certainly when it does not wish to pass on information which might implicate it or support the case for the imprisonment of its officials or operatives has not hesitated quite broadly to assert the "defense" of it being confidential information especially of some sort putting persons or operations at serious risk if disclosed thereby making the veracity of the claim nearly impossible to gauge in real time even though the CIA by law is required to pass on such information to its overseers who themselves are expected to be just as capable as the CIA of keeping confidential information confidential.
       In fact in the current case of the release by the Senate Intelligence Committee of a merely redacted  summary of the CIA's responsibility for the illegal use of torture in the so-called "Torture Report" the CIA has without hesitation sought to make claims of "confidential" information not to mention fabricating a variety of other made up other non-existent privileges. Not to mention the CIA becoming virtually apoplectic at the prospect of the release of the so-called CIA "Panetta Report" rumored not only to detail much more damning inhumane illegal CIA torture and possibly other activities but further exposing that the CIA has repeatedly lied to Congress.
       The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment just recently had occasion to learn from a Western al-Qaeda Yemen "recruit" the reason for his seemingly unthinkable decision that apparently hundreds or not thousands of Western recruits are making to join the ranks of al-Qaeda or ISIS. The prospect of joining either group appears to be very grim indeed. Yet the media pundits and "experts" now speak incessantly of the once esoteric but now commonplace explanation of "self-radicalization" being a major factor in recruitment. However the Western man the Ninth Amendment editorial board just recently heard offered neither the justification of a religious zealot or one caught up in some delusion of glory in joining one of these groups committing untold atrocities in some of the last places on Earth one would wish to live.
       All the young man referred to as his justification for seeking to join one of these terrorist groups was as a response to his hatred of the CIA's criminal use of torture. Has it ever occurred to the CIA that keeping human beings imprisoned in horrid conditions uncharged and with no known release date while seemingly to them abusing them randomly at will torturing them at any time might be enough to make just about anyone even if they had not before hated Americans and the West as they have never hated before and in fact become "radicalized by CIA"? The CIA's torture "program" in the opinion of the Ninth Amendment editorial board has served no purpose based on credible sources but to perpetuate terrorism and keep terrorists supplied with an unending stream of recruits as the CIA has proceeded in absolute contravention of all the core principles embodied in the United States Constitution and worthy of a fascist state. The CIA's use of criminal torture is no secret any longer to the American people and never was to terrorist groups who received detailed reports of CIA torture from "detainees" who were released from CIA custody.
       Finally the Ninth Amendment finds it curious that in the wake of the internal CIA investigation of Director Petraeus rather than the CIA IG it has ended up being the FBI that has referred charges against the CIA official rather than the IG provided that that is presumably within the purview of the IG. More broadly the Ninth Amendment must query if this means it would be the FBI charged with the task of taking into custody and charging CIA officials and operatives should that become necessary provided the CIA officials if facing the prospect of going to prisons so much more humane than their own will nevertheless go down shooting. On another front the Ninth Amendment has been somewhat confounded by the swift conclusion drawn by the FBI that North Korea was responsible for the Sony "The Interview' hack. This given the volume of illegal IT information unlawfully amassed by the NSA and its presumably top-notch cyber experts, not to mention the CIA's for that matter which agency if any would be expected to be in a turf war with the NSA over taking charge in cyber investigations.
       In the realm of the acronymed "National Security" and law enforcement agencies could we be seeing a turf war breaking out with the somewhat sleeping FBI now emerging as taking a leading role considering that the CIA by law if not practice is restricted to overseas rather than domestic activities and as for the NSA who knows it would seem it has become a rogue agency somewhat distastefully turned to by others considering the stink attached to it but whose mission seems to be anyone's to guess but mostly to use the latest technologies to devise the latest way to break national and international laws with abandon.

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29 December 2014

CIA Officials Desperate Not To Be Dragged Off To "Detention Facilities" And Themselves Tortured Try To Intimidate Senate Intelligence Committee Staff Stall Oversight Hope Incoming Republican Senate Will Save Their Sorry. . . .

       Monday, 29 December 2014, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Readers interested in the ongoing Mengelian criminal torture and other unlawful practices of the C.I.A. may be interested to get a taste of what no doubt is just the tip of the (melting) iceberg of the apparently limitless range of twisted activities the C.I.A. is capable of (at least in intent if not aptitude) doing in a debate raging behind closed doors in high (and low) places focusing on the so-called "Panetta Report" as described in some detail in the below link to the Huffington Post (with video!) "Other Torture Report" investigative article including key clues as how to avoid failing the LSAT by making up non-existent privileges, ignoring the Separation of Powers doctrine which forms the structural foundation of the United States Constitution and so much more,
       The entire "Torture Report" debacle building since at least 2002 again starkly exposes that some of those sworn to uphold the Constitution to the extreme as in fact being at the forefront of its attempted dismantling whether through intent or willful ignorance in what might be euphemistically described in C.I.A. disinformation misinformation lingo as "misguided patriotism" although other descriptions readily come to mind which are considerably less charitable.
       Those readers who do review the Senator Feinstein video in the article link below may listen also for her express reference to the Executive Order of the President reiterating the absolute prohibition of the C.I.A. from domestic spying or any other operational activities in the "Homeland" as it were, i.e. to the extent the C.I.A. persists in its global thirst to "stomp the terra" it remains under its original mandate and other United States law restricted to doing so in other people's countries and not in the people's country from whose people its sole power to the extent it is capable of being and is legitimately exercised derives. That being NOT in the United States of America.
       In fact for all the Ninth Amendment knows the C.I.A. may not really even be headquartered in Langley, Virginia beside the petting zoo which may just be a Hollywood set as it seems to appear so freely and frequently in films. The Agency actually may be just down the swamp from our own headquarters as previously reported out here in Tanguska or in that nondescript one-story office park down the road from some reader(s) extending who knows how far underground as that would seem to be about the only direction left to go on planet Earth for a little privacy these days barring outer space which doubtless C.I.A. legal counsel has concluded it is free to explore. Into the air Junior Birdmen, into the air!
       Strained levity aside the above-referenced link to this monumentally tragic ongoing torture saga follows:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/22/panetta-review-cia_n_6334728.html

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25 December 2014

New York Times Calls For Full Criminal Prosecution Of Dick Cheney And All U.S. Officials And Operatives For Commission Of Illegal Acts Of Torture Under Applicable U.S. And International Laws Signatory Treaties And Conventions

       Thursday, 25 December 2014, NEW YORK, NEW YORK- The New York Times entire editorial board calls for the full criminal prosecution of "Pigheart" Dick "Criminal Notorious" Cheney and all U.S. officials and operatives for commission of acts of torture under all applicable U.S. and international laws applicable under signatory treaties and conventions. The Ninth Amendment editorial board without comment below provides the direct link to the New York Times editorial.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/opinion/prosecute-torturers-and-their-bosses.html?mabReward=RI%3A15&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine

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09 December 2014

BREAKING NEWS ALERT: U.S. Release Of Long-Delayed Heavily Redacted "Explosive" C.I.A. Bush Administration Torture Report Summary Expected To Increase Risk Of Worldwide Violence Against American Facilities With Six Thousand Marines On Three Continents Now On Heightened Global Alert

       Tuesday, 9 December 2011, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. imminent release of a heavily redacted C.I.A. Bush Administration Torture Report is expected to increase immediately the risk of violence against American facilities worldwide with "thousands of Marines" and all the United States "military on high alert." This extraordinary announcement was made by Cable News Network (CNN) in recent hours. The Ninth Amendment urges all readers worldwide who have reason to believe they may be at increased risk to take this CNN report very seriously and commence all appropriate available security precautions while keeping themselves as real-time informed as possible.
       The Ninth Amendment emphasizes that it has not reviewed any Senate Intelligence Committee release of a  C.I.A. Bush Administration Torture Report ("Report") redacted or otherwise. However the imminent release of just 480 pages or less than a tenth of the redacted several thousand page Report is expected to be so inflammatory that the C.I.A. already has publicly renounced its use of torture such as that reportedly documented in the Report.
       The Report apparently documents C.I.A. Bush Administration so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" which are considered some of the harshest torture techniques known and were reportedly used on more than one hundred (100) prisoners. The harshest torture technique known is said to be waterboarding the use of which by the C.I.A. was made under the Bush Administration the Report documents with three (3) prisoners. Another not as fully documented technique used was said to be "sleep deprivation" which also apparently is one of the harshest torture techniques known and can actually be continued until a prisoner succumbs to a horrible death from lack of sleep. There have been further obscure references specifically to the use of these torture "techniques" in the hunt for Osama bin Laden but to no avail.
       Unfortunately logic dictates that in order for accepted credible organizations to have recognized the accuracy of statements about the ultimate results of sleep deprivation they must have observed such a death first hand or if not by highly scrutinized evidence of such a death. CNN for obscure reasons reports that the prospect of such disclosures as those above has raised fears that they may inflame already ghastly American hostage situations which speculation the Ninth Amendment does not care to further pursue nor does it understand why CNN would do so either. These C.I.A. Bush Administration so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" ultimately yielded no new information at all and "failed to produce any results."
       Initial information is that the State Department and C.I.A. are reported to have objected to this long-delayed federal Report disclosure with some making a "last-ditch effort" to further stall the Report's release calling it "a terrible idea" and former Vice President Dick Cheney dismissing "it" ("it" apparently vaguely encompassing the Report and its disclosure ) as "a bunch of hooey". Apparently however the state of affairs is such that the disclosure or leakage of the information as the case may be is said to be "inevitable" and that it is best to "get it over with as soon as possible." It would seem likely that some unknown to Ninth Amendment person or entity is threatening perhaps to release the entire contents of the Report if the Obama Administration does not at least disclose the redacted version of the Report imminently. This is mere speculation.
       The Ninth Amendment conveys here to readers the facts of this situation currently known as reported by CNN. The imminent disclosure of the redacted Report has spawned grave concerns spanning the globe including intense concern for the safety of American facilities and all those serving at them as evidenced by the heightened alert status of the United States Marines and military worldwide. Greatly increased concerns as to the physical safety and political dangers caused by the redacted Report's disclosure extend to United States partner nations in efforts to fight terrorism with CNN expressly mentioning Egypt, Kuwait, Japan and Europe overall especially on alert for a violent backlash.
       Meanwhile U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has made an unannounced visit to Baghdad which is not known to the Ninth Amendment at this time to be related to the redacted Report's disclosure. Given the urgency of the language if not the delivery of the above reports which most recently have included express warnings that global violence and deaths "could" or even "will" result from the redacted Report's release any potentially affected readers are urged to proceed with the utmost caution and to stay informed in real-time as much as possible. In conclusion the Ninth Amendment must and does make the disclaimer that this is a very preliminary alert but the information has been verified in The Washington Post and The New York Times with links in the sidebar and the specific New York Times article linked to below.
       Finally the Ninth Amendment does not take it as a good sign at all that Dick Cheney characterizes the worthless needless use of the harshest means of torture yielding no results as "absolutely, totally justified." The most recent reports indicate that to some extent the dire warnings may be the culmination of years of GOP fear-mongering sickly ironically here of "blowback" from the C.I.A. Republican Bush Administration use of the harshest known means of torture. But that is not to say that all credible warnings should not be taken entirely deadly seriously pending further developments.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/us/politics/white-house-and-gop-clash-over-torture-report.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

CIA Inspector General Finds CIA Hacked SSCI Oversight Staff Preparing Torture Report:
https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/Redacted-July-2014-CIA-Office-of-Inspector-General-Report.pdf

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11 October 2014

"We Kill People Based On Metadata", General William C. Hayden, The Johns Hopkins Foreign Affairs Symposium, 4 January 2014

       Saturday, 11 October 2014, FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND  - The Ninth Amendment's quote of the night was made by former football team equipment manager General William C. Hayden retired USAF Air Force four-star General, Commander of the Air Intelligence Agency (AIA), Director of the Joint Command and Control Center, 15th Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Chief of the Central Security Service at Fort George G. Meade, Principal Deputy Director of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), 20th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and who also served in a lengthy list of various other military/intelligence/informal legal positions. He is credited with authorizing wholesale wiretapping of U.S. citizens in directing the creation of an NSA "domestic call telephone database" despite his alleged earlier Constitutional concerns as well as the later "Trailblazer Project" criticized by many staffers of the NSA who previously had created the model for it but now criticized the project as not providing adequately for the protection of privacy of U.S. citizens and being a "waste of money" before they quit the NSA and Trailblazer then was shut down by the NSA Inspector General, the DOD Inspector General and Congress.
       General Hayden during his later tenure also authorized violation of Legislative Branch congressional initiated statutes intended to protect U.S. citizens against unlawful searches and seizures and invasions of privacy including FISA requiring warrants for special secret foreign intelligence proceedings. General Hayden having majored in American History at Duquesne University also made informal legal determinations that the statutes including the FISA need not be followed by the Executive Branch under Article II of the Constitution and that in any case "probable cause" for warrants for searches and seizures was "not included in the Fourth Amendment" under his legal analysis as informed by not the U.S. Supreme Court nor any other official judicial body of the Judicial Branch but rather private White House counsel of the Executive Branch who refused to share its legal opinion on these controversial subjects but instead kept them locked in a safe in counsel's office down the street from the White House only allowing the opinion to be read once by the NSA Director with no copies made nor kept nor read again by anyone before returning them to the safe. The General's interpretation of the lack of Fourth Amendment inclusion of "probable cause" and related protections against illegal searches and seizures concerned Senator Dianne Feinstein of the Senate Intelligence Committee which she predicted as likely to lead to a "major confrontation".
       The General also was a supporter of "enhanced interrogation techniques" and later lobbied to allow "drone" strikes "purely on the basis of ground vehicles, with no evidence of connection to terrorism". It is not known if this exhortation included for example domestic commuter traffic such as NSA employees driving home from work back to their families in the Washington, D.C.metropolitan area. Upon his retirement from the military his former national security, military and informal legal national service work earned him a pile of medals and decorations as well as lucrative jobs as a principal of the security consultancy Cherthoff (rhymes with . . . . ) Group, election to the Board of Directors of Motorola Solutions and service as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at George Mason University School of Public Policy. General Michael Hayden also had a big highway stretch in Pittsburgh named after him. Interested readers who wish to learn more of the General's career which may have been omitted here as well as his other interests, family members and a picture of his decorations and him perhaps from a while ago may wish to consult Wikepedia by entering Michael Hayden (general) in its search box feature in the right sidebar or following the link below the posts on this page.   
       General Michael Hayden was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ironically the same state in which the Founding Fathers drafted the United States Constitution noted especially for its creation of a federal government of three distinct branches of government intended to safeguard the People from federal government abuses through a system of "checks and balances" among the three branches and including the Bill of Rights largely based on the principle of "due process of law" which was ratified by the original thirteen colonies of what was to become the United States of America two and a quarter centuries ago.


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06 August 2014

Fire Criminal CIA Director John Brennan For Illegal CIA Spying On Congress To Avoid CIA Responsibility For Unconstitutional Bush-Era CIA Torture Programs And Demand DOJ Criminal Investigation Into CIA Actions - PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING PETITION

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09 February 2013

CIA Project MK-ULTRA LSD Torture By Criminally Insane Psychiatrist David Cameron Named Chief Of U.S., Canada, And World Psychiatric Associations

IN PERMANENT REMEMBRANCE OF THE UNREPENTANT FOUL SICK EVIL DAVID EWAN CAMERON, M.D. PSYCHO-PSYCHIATRIST NOW AND FOREVER MORE UNDERGOING ETERNAL TORTURE BY THE DEVIL 

       Saturday, 10 February 2013, QUEBEC - All credit for this posted FACT FOR THE DAY goes to the ifonlyyouknew.com blog which is excerpted in small part here. Remember readers NEVER slip your local authority figure a 100x dose of d-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) as last we heard possession carried a mandatory federal minimum ten year sentence. Because LSD is entirely effective in the smallest amounts of any drug ever known the law enforcement community is fond of prosecuting persons caught or more likely planted with LSD weight amounts upheld to be increased by all containers including things such as baggies, backpacks, government agent sedans and so forth so an actual one microgram LSD weight may end up being three tons by the time it makes it to Court. Which the prosecutors never will allow offering plea bargains later revoked and charges exponentially increased for the "accused"  (or the "guilty" in the thirty-plus year losing War on Drugs and loser law enforcement that goes with it) naive enough to plead "innocent".
       Now for readers with a strong stomach for government and medical misconduct actually descended from Nazi torture scientists recruited by the Office of Strategic Services ("OSS") in operation "Paperclip" spawning operations "Artichoke" and "Chatter" later to become the infamous CIA sociopathic "MK-ULTRA" LSD program. George Herbert Walker Bush is believed to have been one of the first internal CIA high dose LSD "guinea pigs". Interested readers may be interested to know the the United States own chemical weapons stockpiled mind torture supplies eventually was chosen to be "BZ" personally chosen by the maniac Commander of the Edgewood Army Arsenal in Maryland who PERSONALLY took all off-spec drugs which pharmaceutical companies were under orders to send his way for testing for psychological warfare. Reportedly after taking BZ and rampaging around the arsenal for three days desperately chased by troops carrying mattresses for the moments when he would unexpectedly collapse and soil himself some more only to jump up and continue his three-day very very bad "trip". Reportedly upon regaining his ability to communicate the Commander announced: "That's our drug." And so it is stockpiled today..
       Enough said, the featured excerpt from ifonlyyouknew.com follows verbatim as fair comment with the reminder that the CIA never had anyone smart or sound enough to make or take LSD which or who was not somewhat seriously chemically and/or psychologically off-spec and therefore in for a nearly guaranteed bad trip. But not the kind that makes you feel real badly about anyone but yourself upon realizing the truth of the nightmare essence of your existence. That honor was left to the forever celebrated Haight-Ashbury love scene 1960's figure Owsley who closed up shop and sold his equipment before the world's most powerful drug was made illegal in the United States.
       The CIA apparently never registered that the problem was not with the drug but with the deeply depraved culture endemic to the CIA and its psychotically disturbed officials and operatives who if not employed by the CIA likely would have been subject to "rendition" and permanently secured in institutions for the criminally insane. Many CIA operatives given LSD unknowingly immediately realized the horror of their life's chosen vocation working for the CIA and went on to a life of permanent disability or in the case of Frank Olson from the Fort Detrick Army biological weapons laboratory (which later went on after 11 September 2001 to mail weaponized anthrax to two U.S. Senators slowing down passage of the Bush-Cheney so-called "Patriot" Act) who in the early 1950s "jumped" or more accurately was thrown by CIA operatives out of a closed NYC highrise hotel window. Determined to have had blunt force trauma to the head before being thrown from the window to his death this later was confirmed to be a deniable assassination technique recommended in the first edition of the CIA assassination manual.

"....With the CIA safe houses no longer in operation, human experimentation under MK-ULTRA continued in Canada under the supervision of psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron, who previously served on the medical tribunal at the Nuremberg trials in the late 1940’s.[1][4] From 1957-1964, Cameron was paid $69,000 by the CIA to conduct experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University in Quebec.[1] It was here that the most disturbing experiments took place, which included heavy doses of LSD and electroshock therapy at 30-40 times the normal power.[6] Subjects were also intentionally placed in comas, where recordings of noise or simple statements would be played on a loop for periods of time ranging from several weeks up to three months.[6] When awakened, the patients were severely and often permanently damaged. They suffered from losing control of their bodily functions, amnesia, forgetting how to speak, and some thought the doctors were their parents. Cameron later became the first chairman of the World Psychiatric Association, as well as president of the American and Canadian psychiatric associations.[7]" ifonlyyouknew.com

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19 October 2011

Three Strikes And You Are (Whatever The Prosecutor Says)

     Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 51st STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS - Ninth Amendment readers please refrain from READING FREE UNLIMITED CONTENT FROM THE DIGITAL NEW YORK TIMES SIMPLY BY SETTING FREE FIREFOX BROWSERS TO "PRIVATE BROWSING". The following comment was as far as we know NOT published in response to an article in the Times regarding the travesty of what has come to be known in the vastly lucrative penal industry as the "Three Strikes" policy initiated and passed at least in California as a voter's proposition which was, as many such propositions are, poorly worded and therefore produced a sickening array of unintended consequences, in response to a public outcry over a horrific event which the misrepresented proposition essentially failed even to address.

Comment Believed Not To Have Been Published In The Times:
      Unites States unconstitutional aggression "makes the world safe for democracy". Therefore "real" democracy with each law potentially conceived by a sole California citizen sounds super as one sits in one's hot tub reading (or more likely watching on television) some "in-depth" story simply assuming that the legal "pros" who actually drafted a proposition got it just right as intended.
     Unfortunately as hundreds of propositions accumulate over time often resulting in horrendously entirely unintended (one would hope) consequences, many one-time "supporters" of the now nearly irreversible laws come to realize exactly why, or more likely vaguely glean in a state of total confusion and horror, that the "proposition" they recently noisily promoted and enacted results in entirely unsupported and unanticipated medieval consequences due to poor drafting and/or rank manipulation by prosecutors.
     This speeds a "streamlined" legal process so as, for example, to coerce guilty pleas regardless of guilt for such heinous acts as licking a lollipop in a store while one waits to purchase it that may well tortuously be manipulated into one or sometimes all three of the popular catchy "three-strikes" mandating a life spent underground daily for 23 and 1/2 hours a day forever without parole at a supermax prison with a vaguely benevolent name such as "Pelican Bay".
     Inmates who do not immediately willingly come out for their half hour of "recreation" a day in their own private cell concrete box without any human contact while their cell is hosed down are shot by several guards with darts on electric wires and dragged from their cells.
     Such policies of 23-and-a-half-hour confinement, isolation, cruel and unusual punishment by electric dart wire dragging, whatever other abuse the guards may care to inflict, and the knowledge that this is to comprise the REST OF ONE'S LIFE would seem to be designed of course not to rehabilitate (long ago abandoned), but solely to punish, inflict extreme psychic and physical pain, and inevitably drive a person to insanity. Not said lightly, treatment at a prison such as California's Pelican Bay Prison sounds eerily reminiscent of a "medical experiment" worthy of Dr. Josef Goebbels.
     Meanwhile, such as in cases as the infamous disappearance and murder of the young girl Polly Klaas precipitating the ill-conceived California "three-strikes" law, many perpetrators of similarly truly frightening and unimaginably cruel crimes serve relatively brief sentences (compared to life without parole at Pelican Bay for lollipop-lifting) which cannot be manipulated into the "three-strikes" scenario by even the sickest Southern California prosecutor soon are sent right back onto California's streets as the last ones Californians might ever wish to meet outside again by prisons that cannot afford to shelter, feed, house, and provide medical care to everyone (anyway yet).
     That is anyway not when the prisons are so busy locking away people such as non-violent drug users and unlucky victims such as a first-time shoplifter who might have caught the prosecutor on a bad day or one that seemed just right for an easy conviction regardless of whether it was for all the wrong reasons, like shoplifting a lollipop "enhanced" to "three-strikes" and the rest of a life spent alone in an underground cement hole while the real danger was soon out again lurking and looking for someone else's, like the prosecutor's, daughter.
     It is hard to pass up a prosecutor's deal offered which one can be assured will only be followed by harsher and harsher offers finally quite likely leading up solely to a "three-strikes" offer for not coming around quite quickly enough for what is actually a single petty misdemeanor which, moreover so far as the prosecutor is concerned, it is entirely irrelevant as to whether one actually committed it or not.
     For the State it is just another quick "victory" with no judge, jury or trial, just sign on the dotted line and answer the questions in court in a way that indicates one at least vaguely understands English as you can not just "nod" all your rights away yet anyway. After all, this is a fair and just country, and you still have to say "yes" or "no" as appropriate out loud and in the right language indicating your "knowing consent" to giving up all your rights in five minutes to an impatient judge already busy reviewing the next case's guilty plea.

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