And they call it democracy

[bigtree]

'14,000 detained without trial in Iraq'

Monday March 6, 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1724837,00.html

In a new report published today, the human rights group criticised the US-led multinational force for interning some 14,000 people.

Around 3,800 people have been held for over a year, while another 200 have been detained for more than two years, the report - Beyond Abu Ghraib: detention and torture in Iraq - said.

The vast majority of the 14,000 people held in Iraq are in US custody.

British troops are holding 43 detainees at a facility in Shaiba, southern Iraq, a spokesman for the Foreign Office said. Their detention is subject to regular review by an internment panel, but lawyers can only make written submissions.

One man, Hillal "Abdul Razzaq" Ali al-Jedda, has been in British custody since his arrest in October 2004. The 48-year-old dual Iraqi and UK national has not been charged with any offence, and a court of appeal judgment on his detention is awaited following a hearing in January.

full report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1724837,00.html

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Are the Gulags staffed with playful fratboys?

[bigtree]

2. cricket and tidlywinks

[Village Idiot]

3. One of my favorites!

Banned by MTV and FCC!!!

Call it Democracy
by Bruce Cockburn, written Nov. 1985


Padded with power here they come
international loan sharks backed by the guns
of market hungry military profiteers
whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
with the blood of the poor

Who rob life of its quality
who render rage a necessity
by turning countries into labour camps
modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom

Sinister cynical instrument
who makes the gun into a sacrament --
the only response to the deification
of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
idolatry of ideology

North south east west
kill the best and buy the rest
it's just spend a buck to make a buck
you don't really give a flying fuck
about the people in misery

IMF dirty MF
takes away everything it can get
always making certain that there's one thing left
keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

See the paid-off local bottom feeders
passing themselves off as leaders
kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
open for business like a cheap bordello

And they call it democracy
and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy
and they call it democracy

See the loaded eyes of the children too
trying to make the best of it the way kids do
one day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
to find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
they call the revolution

IMF dirty MF
takes away everything it can get
always making certain that there's one thing left
keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

[mom cat]

4. And they want to build more detention centers here. And our civil rights a

eroding. Etc.

[f-bush]

5. I've been saying this since 9-12-01

we are well on our way to becoming the Fourth Reich and by the time it fully happens most of the American people will go "what the hell, how did that happen?" WAKE UP take to the streets!