We Can Retire The "Torture Taxis" Now And Torture Right Here in The USA!!

[leftchick]

No more need to contract out the secret flights and prisons around the Globe! After bush signs his all encompasing torture bill he will be free to do whatever the fuck he wants RIGHT HERE IN THE USA!

fuck....

http://www.truthdig.com/interview/item/20060919_tracking_torture_taxi/

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When U.S. civilian airplanes were spotted in late 2002 taking trips to and from Andrews Air Force Base, and making stops in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, journalists and plane-spotters wondered what was going on. It soon became clear that these planes were part of the largest covert operation since the Cold War era. Called extraordinary rendition, the practice involves CIA officials or contractors kidnapping people and sending them to secret prisons around the world where they are held and often tortured, either at the hands of the host-country’s government or by CIA personnel themselves.

On Sept. 6, after a long period of official no-comments, President Bush acknowledged the program’s existence. But the extent of its operations has yet to be publicly disclosed.

How extensive is it? Trevor Paglen, an expert in clandestine military installations, and A.C. Thompson, an award-winning journalist for S.F. Weekly, spent months tracking the CIA flights and the businesses behind them. What they found was a startlingly broad network of planes (including the Gulfstream jet belonging to Boston Red Sox co-owner Phillip Morse), shell companies, and secret prisons around the world. Perhaps the most disturbing revelation of their new book “Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights” is the collusion of everyday Americans in this massive CIA program. From family lawyers who bolster the shell companies, to an entire town in Smithfield, N.C., that hosts CIA planes and pilots, “Torture Taxi” is the story of the broad reach of extraordinary rendition, and, as Hannah Arendt coined the phrase, the banality of evil.

[HereSince1628]

1. It'll still be done in secret, for they are ashamed of the evil they do.

Now, tortured executions, say folks having their intestines drawn from their living writhing bodies and their lifeless bodies quartered and fed to dogs in front of women and children gathered to witness the event? That's different, because THAT is a tradition of the English public square and it is the bloody English from whom we derive our tradition of liberty and justice.

In loving memory of the resistance of William Wallace.