By Maggie Michael
Information Clearing House

MUKALLA, Yemen (AP) — Hundreds of men swept up in the hunt for al-Qaida militants have disappeared into a secret network of prisons in southern Yemen where abuse is routine and torture extreme — including the “grill,” in which the victim is tied to a spit like a roast and spun in a circle of fire, an Associated Press investigation has found.

Se foste stati eletti nelle liste di un movimento nato e cresciuto online, se poi fossero successi incidenti, vi avessero espulsi e aveste occupato la legislatura in un lungo pellegrinaggio fra i più cangianti gruppi parlamentari (Misto, Gruppo Azione Partecipazione Popolare, Italia Lavori in Corso…) per poi approdare alla corte di Denis Verdini (sì, il gruppo di Ascari inviati da Berlusconi in missione dall’altra parte dell’emiciclo per tenere in vita i vari governi del PD)…

Se aveste votato la fiducia a qualsiasi ipotesi di governo avesse il coraggio di presentarsi alle camere, e se nonostante questo, a legislatura ormai agli sgoccioli, vi trovaste senza una reale possibilità di essere ricandidati, cosa fareste?

Leonard Peltier
www.counterpunch.org

What can I say that I have not said before? I guess I can start by saying see you later to all of those who have passed in the last year. We Natives don’t like to mention their names. We believe that if we speak their names it disrupts their journey. They may loose their way and their spirits wander forever. If too many call out to them, they will try to come back. But their spirits know we are thinking about them, so all I will say is safe journey and I hope to see you soon.

On February 6th, I will have been imprisoned for 40 years! I’m 71 years old and still in a maximum security penitentiary. At my age, I’m not sure I have much time left.

I have earned about 4-5 years good time that no one seems to want to recognize. It doesn’t count, I guess? And when I was indicted the average time served on a life sentence before being given parole was 7 years. So that means I’ve served nearly 6 life sentences and I should have been released on parole a very long time ago. Then there’s mandatory release after serving 30 years. I’m 10 years past that. The government isn’t supposed to change the laws to keep you in prison — EXCEPT if you’re Leonard Peltier, it seems.

In a recent article for Waking Times, Julian Wash suggested that the psychopaths running the show might as well be inhuman, discussing the apparent consensus opinion that violence and war is something inherent to the human condition – it is a consensus pushed primarily by those who profit from such aggression, not the population in general. If you consider the fact that the police is the enforcement arm of the State, their increasingly out of control violent behavior towards innocent members of the public can only serve to reinforce the view that this psychopathic tendency trickles down from the top of the hierarchy and permeates throughout the system.

The evidence supporting this position is abundant. Every day, news stories are emerging concerning the latest barbaric act on the part of America’s law enforcement; acts which the perpetrators carry out with apparent immunity from any kind of reprimand, let alone prosecution. Sometimes these actions are relatively mild but nevertheless bring to light the complete lack of compassion from the officers involved – this was certainly the case recently in Cleveland, where police took away a basketball hoop set up by a resident for neighborhood kids who helped her around the yard. The woman, Cheri Fiorilli, was threatened with arrest before the hoop was confiscated, and not given a single chance to move the goal into her own driveway.

La dottoressa Silvia Quintela fu fatta sparire dagli squadroni della morte in Argentina nel 1977 quando era al quarto mese di gravidanza, in attesa del suo primo figlio. Dalle notizie che si hanno, fu tenuta in vita in una base militare fino al momento della nascita del figlio e poi, come altre vittime della giunta militare, fu probabilmente drogata, spogliata, incatenata ad altri prigionieri privi di sensi e caricata su di un aereo cargo, uno dei “voli della morte” con cui furono fatte sparire circa ventimila persone. Gli aerei militari, con il loro inerte carico umano, venivano fatti volare in notturna sull’Atlantico e i corpi, incatenati gli uni agli altri, venivano gettati fuori bordo nell’oceano. Quintela lavorava come dottoressa nei sobborghi della città ed aveva 28 anni quando fu assassinata.

I prigionieri delle carceri federali che guadagnano ventitre centesimi di dollaro l’ora stanno producendo componenti high-tech per missili Patriot a lunga gittata, rampe di lancio per i missili anti-carro TOW (Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided) e altri sistemi missilistici. Un articolo, pubblicato lo scorso marzo dal giornalista e ricercatore finanziario Justin Rohrlich di World in Reviews, merita una lettura attenta per capire tutte le implicazioni di questo inquietante sviluppo (minyanville.com)

La diffusione dell’utilizzo di carceri-fabbriche, che pagano salari da schiavi, per incrementare i profitti dei giganti corporativi militari, è un attacco frontale ai diritti di tutti i lavoratori.