PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Tensions ran high after eight former boot camp workers were acquitted of manslaughter in the death of a 14-year-old inmate who was videotaped being punched and kicked.

The case sparked outrage and spelled the end of Florida's system of juvenile boot camps, but it took a jury just 90 minutes Friday to decide that the death of Martin Lee Anderson was not a crime.

Tense Moments After Boot Camp Acquittal
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gKVEpEUAn-5PeOpsggoXT6rXN8YQD8S87NSO3

"Siebert said sickle-cell trait caused Anderson to die, but Hillsborough County medical examiner Dr. Vernard Adams said in a subsequent autopsy that the Panama City boy suffocated when drill instructors clamped his mouth shut and held ammonia capsules under his nose for several minutes."

Siebert defends autopsy; defense rests
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071011/CAPITOLNEWS/710110381/1010

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The medical examiner who ruled last week that a teenager died of natural causes after he was struck by Panama City boot camp guards earlier signed mistake-filled autopsy reports on a man and his adult daughter killed in a September 2004 tornado, their widow and mother said Monday.

Boot Camp Autopsy Doctor Questioned Before
http://www.nospank.net/n-p74r.htm

The loss of this child is especially shocking because it is completely senseless. We have known since at least 1998 that boot camps are no more effective than juvenile prison at turning young lives around. That year, the Justice Department reviewed the data on these programs. No research found boot camp superior to juvenile detention. One study even found that boot camp participants did significantly worse than their incarcerated counterparts--with 50% of former inmates being re-arrested while a whopping 72% of boot camp participants were. [http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/171676.pdf]

Further, the camps have produced hideous abuse scandals in almost every state that tried them. In Georgia, the boot camps were so bad that they sparked a federal investigation by the Justice Department, which uncovered abominations like children being left naked in isolation cells for days and being made to run with tires around their waists in the heat.

In South Dakota, a fourteen-year-old girl who had been arrested for stealing beanie babies died in after a forced three-mile run in hot, humid weather. When she could go no further, she was dragged, then left to lie in the sun and taunted as she hyper-ventilated and lost consciousness. Other teens were left hog-tied in cells for 23 hours a day for up to a month.  [But they did get "good information" on Saddam's connection to Al Qaeda.]

Strange Therapy
http://www.nospank.net/n-p85r.htm
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It's well within the capabilities of organized Satanism to rig juries to prevent Satanists from being convicted of a crime for pursuing their "religion."  That's the most likely expanation for this travesty of justice, in which wildly excessive brutality, and a painful technique which anyone with half a brain would realize posed a danger of asphyxiation, were gleefully employed and caught on tape.  If there's a similar trial in the future, I suggest screening out Satanists by subjecting them, and those who select jurors, to the lie-detection technology described in the following passage:

Now fMRI is also poised to transform the security industry, the judicial system, and our fundamental notions of privacy. I'm in a lab at Columbia University, where scientists are using the technology to analyze the cognitive differences between truth and lies. By mapping the neural circuits behind deception, researchers are turning fMRI into a new kind of lie detector that's more probing and accurate than the polygraph, the standard lie-detection tool employed by law enforcement and intelligence agencies for nearly a century.

Don't Even Think About Lying
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/lying_pr.html

Let the witch-hunt begin! 

Posted by fakeapoc at 2:50 PM EDT

Updated: Saturday, October 13, 2007 10:08 PM EDT

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I've been meaning to convert "extraordinary rendition" to its numerical equivalent to see if there are any clues to its true nature hidden there, and I finally got around to it.  It turns out that "extraordinary" > (converts to) 172 and that "rendition" > 88 (11x8, the numbers of black magic and the Eighth Sphere, possibly to indicate its apparent 8S-agenda connection; also, "88" is neo-Nazi slang for Heil Hitler, which considering that Hitler was supposedly possessed by the Antichrist, would be a salute to the Devil).  Their sum is 260, or 13x20.  "ER" > 23 (which yields 11 and .666... thusly: 2x3+2+3=11; 2/3=.666...) , and there are 13 letters in "extraordinary" and 9 in "rendition,"  for a total of 22.

I also realized how contrived the phrase seems, which is a sign that it's designed for its numerical significance.   "Extraordinary" is euphemistic when applied to state-sponsored international kidnapping and torture.   The definition of "rendition" which fits best is "delivery" (Merriam-Webster's definition of "render" includes "deliver," making "rendition" the act of delivery), which again is just slightly euphemistic.  The use of this term for state-sponsored abduction, Satanism, and war-provocation once again reminds us of the banality of evil.  Someone spent a lot of time coming up with this term - your tax dollars at work!

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Torture, Continued contains many good insights into the torture issue, but I particularly liked this one:

Blogger Digby writes: "I am still stunned that we are talking about the United States of America issuing dry legal opinions about how much torture you are allowed to inflict on prisoners. Stories like this one are the very definition of the banality of evil - a bunch of ideologues and bureaucrats blithely committing morally reprehensible acts apparently without conscience or regret."

"The banality of evil" is a famous phrase coined by Hannah Arendt, who as a key member of the Council for Cultural Freedom (search www.LaRouchePub.com for related articles), should know a little about the subject.

The article closes with another good insight:

Glenn Greenwald blogs for Salon: "Congress could aggressively investigate. Criminal prosecutions could be commenced. Our opinion-making elite could sound the alarm. New laws could be passed, reversing the prior endorsements and imposing new restrictions, along with the will to enforce those laws. We still have the ability to vindicate the rule of law and enforce our basic constitutional framework.

    "But does anyone actually believe any of that will be the result of these new revelations? We always possess the choice - still - to take a stand for the rule of law and our basic national values, but with every new day that we choose not to, those Bush policies become increasingly normalized, increasingly the symbol not only of 'Bushism' but of America."

Indeed, there is still time for the real leaders of this country, instead of soulless puppets like Bush, to face the fact that LaRouche is the man with the plan to get this country, and the world, out of the mess deliberately created by the ancient enemies of mankind.  

Posted by fakeapoc at 8:17 PM EDT

Updated: Saturday, October 13, 2007 12:51 PM EDT

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From Secrecy defense prevails in torture case:
 

"The Supreme Court refuses to hear a lawsuit from an alleged victim of brutality by the CIA. The decision is seen as a setback for civil libertarians."

In my opinion, one of the purposes for such abductions is to provoke the Islamic world against the US.  By refusing to hold the US government accountable for what is in fact one of the lowest possible crimes (Satanism/SRA), the Supreme Court has done its part to provoke the Islamic world, by helping to give Muslims the impression that any of them can be abducted anytime, anywhere, "disappeared" into some secret dungeon, and abused/tormented/tortured until they go insane or die.  Another possibility is that, although a lot is already known about this case, and the victim's attorneys claim that this makes the state-secrecy argument moot, it is possible that information or perspectives might come out of such a trial which Dark Dick and his New Dark Agers would rather keep in the dark.

Posted by fakeapoc at 12:30 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, October 11, 2007 5:59 PM EDT

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from
Widespread abuse alleged at 'boot camps' for troubled US teens: report

"WASHINGTON (AFP) — Allegations of abuse are legion at high-discipline, hard-hitting programs for troubled US youth, and have sometimes led to teens' deaths, a report by a government watchdog warned Wednesday."

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In a previous entry, I registered disappointment with the media because it continues to subtly push the line that "enhanced interrogation" is an effective means of interrogation, even though it has acknowledged evidence that it isn't.  As an example of how they do this, I cite the following passages from a recent NY Times article,  Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations :

"The debate over how terrorist suspects should be held and questioned began shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when the Bush administration adopted secret detention and coercive INTERROGATION...."

"With virtually no experience in interrogations, the C.I.A. had constructed its program in a few harried months by consulting Egyptian and Saudi intelligence officials and copying Soviet INTERROGATION methods...."

"That experience shook the Qaeda INTERROGATION team...."

"Despite that guidance, in March 2003, when the C.I.A. caught Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the chief planner of the Sept. 11 attacks, INTERROGATORS were again haunted by uncertainty [over the legality of EI techniques]. Former intelligence officials, for the first time, disclosed that a variety of tough INTERROGATION tactics were used about 100 times over two weeks on Mr. Mohammed."  [Which produced the false intelligence which "justified" the Iraq "war."]

The article also quotes CIA spokesman George Little, who recited the usual carefully-worded misleading statements about "enhanced interrogation" being lawful and effective, and that the secret memo was intended to protect the brave "interrogators" who go face to face with pure evil, or some such twaddle.  Another such defender of EI, Paul C. Kelbaugh, was quoted as claiming that good information on Al Qaeda had been obtained, but if so, where are the results?  Oh, but things would have been much worse otherwise, of course, and there's no way to disprove his assertion.  I think this is known as the liar's prerogative - just say anything, and let everyone try to disprove it.  So, the liar's main concern is to make claims that can't be disproved easily.

The following passage from the Times article is part of the fairy-tale about the origins of "enhanced interrogation":

"With virtually no experience in interrogations, the C.I.A. had constructed its program in a few harried months by consulting Egyptian and Saudi intelligence officials and copying Soviet interrogation methods...."

Compare it with the following passages from A Question of Torture by Alfred McCoy (recommended to anyone who is interested in the history of EI), which prove that the CIA has developed EI over decades, knowing all along that it is not an effective interrogation technique:

"In the global dissemination of its new interrogation doctrine during the Cold War, the CIA moved through two distinct phase, first operating undercover through police-training programs in Asia and Latin America and later collaborating with Army teams that advises local counterinsurgency forces, largely in Central America.   Throughout this thirty-year effort, the CIA's torture training grew increasingly brutal, moving by degrees beyond the original psychological techniques to harsh physical methods through its experience in the Vietnam War."  p 60

As noted, FBI interrogators found the military's techniques produced little real information and interfered with their own bureau's proven methods of building rapport through long, noncoercive questioning.  [But EI, which is supposed to be quick and effective, goes on for years, so "long questioning" is not only more effective, but quicker, and it doesn't make the world hate us.]  "The torture of subjects did not lead to any useful intelligence information being extracted," reports James Corum, a professor at the Army Command and General Staff College.  "The abusers couldn't even use the old 'ends justify the means' argument, because in the end there was nothing to show but a tremendous propaganda defeat for the United States."  p 196

Posted by fakeapoc at 10:13 PM EDT

Updated: Sunday, October 7, 2007 10:35 PM EDT

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In the course of Amy Goodman's interview of Col. Ann Wright on the 10/5/07 edition of Democracy Now, a segment of the October 4th White House press briefing was played, and I couldn't resist the temptation to point out a few of its absurdities:

REPORTER: Well, just generally, does the administration -- does the President believe that head-slapping and simulated drowning are necessary tactics to use against suspected terrorists to keep America safe?

DANA PERINO: I am not going to comment on any specific alleged techniques. It is not appropriate for me to do so. And to do so would provide the enemy with more information for how to train against these techniques.  [Think about it for a while - how would anyone condition themselves to resist these techniques?  This is just a transparent excuse for glossing over what is actually done, which if revealed would prove what the Red Cross has said - that it is tantamount to torture.]  And so, I am going to decline to comment on those, but I will reiterate to you once again that we do not torture.  [What about all those "death squads" running amok around Baghdad, passing through American checkpoints with their captives who later turn up in heaps with signs of torture?]  We want to make sure that we keep this country safe [by behaving like rabid dogs and turning the rest of the world into our enemies].

REPORTER: In September of last year, the President told the country about what had been a classified program of CIA prisons in other countries around the world. At that time, he said all the terrorists who were held -- or alleged terrorists -- who were held in those sites were no longer there. Today, do those prisons still exist? And are there alleged terrorists being held?

DANA PERINO: I'm not going to comment on that. If the CIA decides to comment, I'll let them. What I can tell is that any procedures that they use are tough, safe, necessary and lawful.  [In fact, they have been proven to be ineffective at obtaining reliable information, so how could they be necessary?  Neither are they lawful, according to international standards.  Safe?  Tell that to Jose Padilla, whose mind has been destroyed.  "Tough" is a cynical euphemism for "sadistic."]

REPORTER: Is it reasonable to assume if those prisons were closed, that the President would have deemed that something to tell the country, and, in the absence of that, we should assume they are still working?

DANA PERINO: No, no, that’s a nice -- I'm not going to comment.

REPORTER: In a conference call in July, a senior administration official said that they would no longer -- or wouldn't use extreme temperatures of heat and cold. Is that true?

DANA PERINO: I don't know. I don't -- I wasn't on the -- I don't recall.  ["It's not that I'm out of the loop.  I just remembered that I don't recall such things."]

REPORTER: I guess the point is that if the senior administration official told us on a conference call that these methods wouldn't be used, why won't you say whether or not head-slapping, waterboarding, would be used?

DANA PERINO: I don't believe that I -- I'm not in a position to be able to do that. I am not going to comment on specific techniques. […]

Now, if there were an attack on this country, all of the questions in here would be very different. You would be asking me, “How did you allow this to happen?”  And what I am telling you is that, within the law [their interpretation, based on their own dictionary], we are making sure that we are doing everything we can [i.e. that they can get away with in their secret dungeons] to prevent it from happening again.  [To keep Cheney satisfied, so that his gang in the military doesn't nuke us.]

REPORTER: But what's to stop another country from then taking their own definition and interpretation based on the administration's --

DANA PERINO: As I understand it, under the Geneva Conventions, every country was supposed to interpret it for themselves, and now we have.  [As long we agree with the Geneva Conventions, we'll use them.]

As I understand it, I believe that the Geneva Conventions, that every country could interpret for themselves what those -- what that language meant. I'm recalling that from the debate that we had in this country from a year and a half ago.

REPORTER: Paraphrasing what the Geneva Conventions said, it said that --

DANA PERINO: Not paraphrasing, but --

REPORTER: No, I'm --

DANA PERINO: You're going to paraphrase?

REPORTER: Yes.

DANA PERINO: OK.

REPORTER: Paraphrasing what it said, it basically says that if there is some kind of a problem with clarity, it is supposed to be taken to an international crimes court. So --  [you're wrong!]

DANA PERINO: Which we are not going to do.  [This is an admission of an intention to violate a treaty.  But then, the only law that really applies to the Cheney gang is that of the jungle.]

REPORTER: Why not?

DANA PERINO: I don't think it's necessary.  [Oh, so we can dismiss provisions of international treaties because a PRESS SECRETARY doesn't consider it necessary to adhere to them?  And we thought that Cheney was overstepping HIS bounds!]

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Speaking emphatically, the president noted that "highly trained professionals" conduct any questioning. "And by the way," he said, "we have gotten information from these high-value detainees that have helped protect you."

from Bush defends US interrogation methods

I don't know whether Bush's pathological lying is disgusting, or just pathetic.   One of the excuses for starting to use abusive "interrogation" techniques was that there weren't enough trained interrogators to do the job at the time.  Well, here we are, a few years later, and we've just learned that Cheney's henchman Gonzales approved what amounts to torture in a SECRET DoJ memo (as Scott Horton pointed out, "Department of Justice" is an Orwellian title if ever there were) just months after publicly declaring similar if not identical methods to be "abhorrent."   Now, Bush claims that we have "highly trained professionals" who use the techniques that were adopted because we didn't have any skilled interrogators!  Barf!

Such secret memos are necessary when conducting "enhanced interrogation" (Satanic Ritual Abuse) in secret, against all laws and the will of the American people, not to mention the rest of the actual people on the planet.  Otherwise, those conducting the "interrogations" would fear being charged with a crime, as they should be.  (Despite what Gonzo believes, there are higher authorities, and he and his buddies will face justice, eventually.)

What bothers me about the media is that it continues to subtly repeat the idea that "enhanced interrogation" is an effective form of interrogation, even though it has acknowledged that it is not effective, and is actually counterproductive.  It's as if it's hinting that it really does work, but that it's necessary to use techniques that aren't mentioned in polite company.

Posted by fakeapoc at 9:29 PM EDT

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Thankfully, LPAC re-ran Saudis Identified as Patrons of "Al Qaeda II", originally published in July, because I missed it and it pretty much puts to rest any question about a major source of terrorism in Iraq.  Condoleeza Rice recently called former AQI leader Zarqawi "diabolically brilliant," but I think his success was at least partly due to his connections.

Posted by fakeapoc at 8:29 PM EDT

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