Tear up the US constitution. It doesn’t stand for anything any more.
What happened to him in his 24 hours in captivity was written across his body in chapters of pain, recorded by the camera. There are police-issue handcuffs still attached to one wrist, from which he was hanged long enough to cause his hands and wrists to swell. There are burn marks on his chest, as if someone has placed something very hot near his right nipple and moved it around.
A little lower are a series of horizontal welts, wrapping around his body and breaking the skin as they turn around his chest, as if he had been beaten with something flexible, perhaps a cable. There are other injuries: a broken nose and smaller wounds that look like cigarette burns.
An arm appears to have been broken and one of the higher vertebrae is pushed inwards. There is a cluster of small, neat circular wounds on both sides of his left knee. At some stage an-Ni'ami seems to have been efficiently knee-capped. It was not done with a gun - the exit wounds are identical in size to the entry wounds, which would not happen with a bullet. Instead it appears to have been done with something like a drill.
What actually killed him however were the bullets fired into his chest at close range, probably by someone standing over him as he lay on the ground. The last two hit him in the head.
So, just where did this happen, and who did it?
I'm sure the goddamn filthy fascists who support the Coward in Chief will be pleased to know that it's not Americans who tortured this man to death, but the secret police of a puppet government installed by the United States (with American advisors. Don't forget the goddamn American advisors!).
Remember, the latest fucking excuse for "liberating" Iraq (from, at least as far as I can understand from the increasingly irate weblogs of Iraqi citizen who are living under the boot of the American occupation, the peace and prosperity that the butcher Hussein ruled over) was that Saddam Hussein was torturing people to death. If you read the fine print, it turns out that the US engaged in an unprovoked aggressive war because Hussein wasn't torturing enough people to death.
Burn the flag. Burn the constitution. They have been indelibly stained by the evil creatures who control the United States.
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Yeah, I know that Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 2000, but this whole torture thing is one of my hobbyhorses. I am aware that the Republicans have been cheerfully torturing and supporting torturers every time they've been in power since the second world war (and, to be fair, the evil branch of the Democratic Party used to do the same back before the Democratic Party was infiltrated and destroyed by the Evil Party), but they used to try and hide it, and pretended to be ashamed of it when they were caught.
Nowadays, it's as if the chattering classes masturbate to bootleg torture videos. Not only is the Evil Party willing to admit that they torture people to death, but there's a large cheering section that keeps calling for more indiscriminate torture.
I don't know if I've heard of any large country (aside from you know where) turning away from the good side quite so quickly as the United States is doing now.
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We crossed the Post-Constitutional River on December 12, 2000, and I haven't shut up about it since.
People - especially those on the Left (with precious few exceptions)- have yet to acknowledge the Constitution was rendered null and void when George W. Bush was installed as president without consent of the governed. When they finally do - if they ever do - we'll have an opportunity to begin recovering all that we have lost. Until then, we're fucked because operating on the basis of a meticulously crafted illusion is an exercise in slavery.